What's Your #LunchboxStory
Since day one, L. May has built strong, reliable lunchboxes for hardworking people across Canada, the U.S., Australia, and Europe.
Every lunchbox is still proudly made in Sudbury, Ontario, and built to last. Many of our customers even pass them down through generations, from parent to child.
Whether it’s heading to the jobsite, the mine, or the shop, your lunchbox becomes part of your daily routine, and your story.
Because at L. May, we know it’s more than just a lunchbox. It’s a lifestyle.
See what our customers are saying about the lunchbox that’s built for work—and built for life.
Mitchell Young
This lunchbox has served me well for 47 years of mining and construction work. I bought it after high school when I got hired on to Levack Mine and now I am 65 and retired from Caterpillar. Still in great shape.
Gordon Ridsdill
I never knew how much love you could fit into an L. May Lunchbox before my daughter was born.
The Rural Dad l Jeff King
It’s hard to believe that it’s been 3 years since I decided to take a parental leave. Tomorrow I’m back to putting natural gas pipeline in the ground! It’s #bittersweet but I’m happy to say that this vintage @lmayminerslunchbox is ready for more work!
Zeil Dronken Hanonnen Cortner
I'll never get rid of my L. May MFG🧰💪
Hawkins
I've been carrying this box around for a while. It's been all over the place. Alaska, Montana,Idaho, Nevada❤️
Mark Kupper
I started my career at a Saskatchewan coal mine in October of 1979 with this L.May
lunchbox in my hand. We are both still here, a little scratched and dented but still going strong. Nice to see that a company that made such a great product still going years later.
Roger Strand
This lunch box belonged to a friend Gary Bown straight day track man Homestake mine Lead SD he passed away ten years ago from cancer.
Ben Mccarthy
15 years& counting🧰💪
J. Paul Murphy
18 years and now it’s retired (still like new!)
Dan
I have had my L. May lunch box for a few years and it is the perfect size to hold my quart thermos [14 inch] as well as my lunch. The thermos is 47 years old and the lunchbox is 10 plus. It is nice to know that it can be repaired.
David Jones
I have been carrying one to work for 40 years, it should be good for another 40!
Bill Trudeau
I can still hear the squeak of the handle and the click of the latches. As a young boy growing up in Sault Ste Marie I looked forward to dad coming home from work so I could eat the left overs in his lunch box (commonly referred to as a lunch pail), whether it was saltine crackers with butter and sugar on them (a popular snack in those days), or what I now come to realize was a candy bar that he picked up on the way home.
Fast forward to when I entered the workforce at my first construction job and I used the same lunch pail. One of the funniest memories is when my buddy Gary and I fumbled onto a draught beer tap in a hotel we were hauling drywall into. We filled the lunch pail with beer. For some reason we had to walk down 2nd Line in the Sault back to the shop and we took turns sipping the beer. Have you ever tried to sip beer out of a full, rectangle cup while walking ? It was a challenge to not spill any.
Fast forward another 20 years and I would carry my lunch into work in another LMay lunch box (not sure what happened to dads) an industry where very few coworkers carried a lunch to work. And everyone commented on the lunch box.
I have 9 L. May lunch pail’s and my boys each have one. I use them for everything from carrying lunch to hauling electronic dog collars and various tools.
Brittany Chedore
The hardest working man I know retired yesterday. He carried this lunch pail to work underground for 43 years. The last 31 years of his career was working for Vale, the same place I now work. When people who have worked with him realize he is my dad, they would immediately gush about how hard of a worker he is and a great miner he is. I am very proud to call The Legend my dad.
Gerald Munby
First one lasted approx 3yrs & got squashed by a scoop tram, so that was the end of that. 2nd one saw me right through to my retirement, so approx 20yrs old; I left that one with my son in Humboldt. My Co-worker Billy Danylczuk, who sadly is no longer with us, placed an order with you & I purchased my 3rd in 2002 & brought it back to the UK with me. It has been on several beach trips & in the harvest field when helping my brother on the farm & at the granite factory I worked at, wouldn't have been without it.They a got well used & still take my latest one out on picnics here & have had many comments on it.
Anastasia
The 14-inch Super Classic L.May Lunchbox is a game-changer for my craft storage. It's incredibly spacious and the wire holder in the lid is genius for extra supplies.
What really impresses me is its durability. I'm confident it will last a lifetime.
Highly recommended for crafters and anyone needing reliable, spacious and aesthetics storage.
Proudly Canadian handmade Miners Lunchbox! Highly recommend for everyone to have!
David Parker
This is my pail used above and underground. 1976-2016(retired) slightly bent and little modification but still did the job. Saw some pretty hard use. The real story here tho is I had the same model from 1971-1976. Lost that one off a sno-jet on the way to work. A fellow picked it up on the highway and recognized my name but put it in his garage, thinking to find me and return it. About 25 years later ( garage cleanup), it resurfaced and was returned. My son put it to work right away then, and it has been traveling above and underground with him ever since. Great products!
Rob Genereaux
I've had this lunch pail since 1988. It's been with me while I was working road construction, in a particleboard mill, and since 2006 in a paper mill. You'll never see me buy a cheap cooler bag every year. At my current job, I'm the only one with a proper lunch pail, or as I call it, my crumb bucket. I find it incredible that you can see the rub marks on the front where I open the latches. The new generation is constantly commenting on it at work.
Craig Jefferson
This box was bought for me on Father’s Day about 7 years ago. I have the seat pad for it also. It’s been to: North mine, South mine, Totten mine, Coleman mine, Fraser mine, Onaping Deep, Garson mine, Creighton mine, Stobie, 777 Flin Flon Manitoba, K2 Esterhazy Saskatchewan, Compass Minerals Goderich, Kemano British Columbia, New Gold Kamloops BC, Hope Bay Nunavut, and 8000 feet down, A little rust from the salt mines and a strap so no fellow employees can flip the latches while I’m walking lol. My Dad had one for 32 years at Frood
Greg
I still have two from 1974 when I started working underground. I'm now retired 8 years and the smaller one makes a great bullet box for my hunting. The bigger one is on the shelf waiting for a purpose. My father who retired in 1988 nailed his to the cloths line pole for cloths pins and it is still being used today, rust free and like new. Keep up the good quality.
Dennis Doherty
I've worked for the Railway for 13 years now and can't count the amount of lunch pails I've purchased. Working in extreme weather condition for long days and nights I could never find the perfect most suitable lunch pale for my needs. That is until I purchased the "Super Classic" fromLmayminerslunchbox.caI purchased this beauty in March this year and instantly knew it was a keeper.
I've added a type of divider and a couple other features to make it my own and hope to have it the rest of my career and pass it on to one of my 3 children when I retire. So glad I supported a business like yours.
This week, 2/3s of the other members of my crew bought theirs and are anxiously waiting by the mail box. Don't worry, the 4th member is window shopping now.
Cheers and thanks for the great product.