Our story began in 1994 when my mother Kuldeep Bolina immigrated to Canada from Panjab with my grandparents, she started off by pressing clothes for free at multiple dry cleaners in Edmonton to gain experience and eventually landed a paying position at one for $5.00 an hour. Once she had earned enough money, she flew back to Panjab to marry my father, Satinderpal Singh Bolina and brought him with her! She went straight back to her pressing job and stayed there for 7 years while my dad traveled across Canada as a semi truck driver. During this time they celebrated the birth of their first daughter, Inderpal Kaur Bolina (AKA my older sister) and the birth of their favorite daughter (AKA me!). Eventually one of my mother’s friends reached out to her about a dry cleaners for sale, my mother and father agreed that this is what my mom loved to do (and that she was pretty great at it as well). In 2015 we were lucky enough to add another location in Queen Mary Park named The Cleanery, in 2020 we added Riverbend Cleaners to our family, and now in 2022 we have welcomed our newest location of Holyrood Drycleaners and Tailors South in Keheewin! We’re so excited to see you at any one of our locations and we hope to see you soon!

My mother has over 25 years of experience in the drycleaning industry, she studied tailoring in Panjab as a young woman and is a skilled seamstress and presser. She has experience in cleaning and repairing wedding dresses, leather and suede items, and most fabric items like dog beds and industrial clothing! My sister and I have been helping out in our stores since 2006 and in more recent years our roles in our family business have grown. My sister handles the accounts of our four locations, as well as coordinating corporate contracts with organizations such as the Edmonton Elks, The Alberta Legislature and countless hotels throughout Edmonton.

I handle the customer relations aspects such as social media, emails and customer service concerns. Once our business grew busier, my father left his job of over 15 years as a cross-Canada truck driver and became our delivery coordinator. He’s the first point of contact with our deliveries and his routes across the city would spin us in circles, but he always gets the job done as efficiently as possible.