Ok, After cluing in to the old tommy cooker fuel, and that esbit is actually hexamine,
I took a trip to Campers Village in edmonton - Sure enough, I found it - twice - although
not called esbit.

The Coghlans "emergency stove" that looks like a tommy cooker doesn't seem to contain
esbits - it has little round fuel pellets that don't appear to smell right. I didn't try it.

I did actually find it in the aisles I don't usually go to - the car camping crap <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> There was some both with the fire starting stuff, and with the car camping goo - Both were 12 tablets
for $7.98 CDN

Type one was fuel for a car camping type "frypan" rig..


which contained three blister cards of fishy smelling hexamine tabs:


Type two - found in the firestarting-for-complete-idiots-who-can't-do-it-right-or-just-use-kerosene aisle:




If I had to guess both tablets came from the same chinese factory.

So I popped one out, put it on my penny stove base, and put the pot on the stand on my
patio table - relisticly, it started to rain. I managed a 2 cup boil in the pot, and then blew out
the tablet - it looks like it took about 2/3 of a tablet to boil with steam coming out the lid.
This is what was left:



So the long and short of it - is that you can find it, but it ain't called esbit