diff --git a/AUTHORS.rst b/AUTHORS.rst
index 6801fd7b6d..3c5b5a67da 100644
--- a/AUTHORS.rst
+++ b/AUTHORS.rst
@@ -38,3 +38,4 @@ For example:
 * Gustavo Tandeciarz (dcinzona)
 * Chandler Anderson (zenibako)
 * Ben French (BenjaminFrench)
+* Mathieu Marcoux (mathieumarcoux)
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/cumulusci/core/dependencies/tests/test_dependencies.py b/cumulusci/core/dependencies/tests/test_dependencies.py
index c3eb329d8f..9afecb28f5 100644
--- a/cumulusci/core/dependencies/tests/test_dependencies.py
+++ b/cumulusci/core/dependencies/tests/test_dependencies.py
@@ -734,6 +734,44 @@ def test_install(self, api_deploy_mock, zip_builder_mock, download_mock):
 
         api_deploy_mock.return_value.assert_called_once()
 
+    @mock.patch("cumulusci.core.dependencies.dependencies.download_extract_zip")
+    @mock.patch("cumulusci.core.dependencies.dependencies.MetadataPackageZipBuilder")
+    @mock.patch("cumulusci.core.dependencies.dependencies.ApiDeploy")
+    def test_zip_url_file_scheme(
+        self, api_deploy_mock, zip_builder_mock, download_mock
+    ):
+        d = UnmanagedZipURLDependency(zip_url="file://foo.zip")
+
+        zf = ZipFile(io.BytesIO(), "w")
+        zf.writestr("src/package.xml", "test")
+        download_mock.return_value = zf
+
+        context = mock.Mock()
+        org = mock.Mock()
+        d.install(context, org)
+
+        download_mock.assert_called_once_with(d.zip_url)
+
+        zip_builder_mock.from_zipfile.assert_called_once_with(
+            mock.ANY,
+            options={
+                "unmanaged": True,
+                "namespace_inject": None,
+                "namespace_strip": None,
+            },
+            path=None,
+            context=mock.ANY,
+        )
+        api_deploy_mock.assert_called_once_with(
+            mock.ANY,  # The context object is checked below
+            zip_builder_mock.from_zipfile.return_value.as_base64.return_value,
+        )
+        mock_task = api_deploy_mock.call_args_list[0][0][0]
+        assert mock_task.org_config == org
+        assert mock_task.project_config == context
+
+        api_deploy_mock.return_value.assert_called_once()
+
     def test_get_unmanaged(self):
         org = mock.Mock()
         org.installed_packages = {"foo": "1.0"}
@@ -743,6 +781,12 @@ def test_get_unmanaged(self):
             )._get_unmanaged(org)
             is True
         )
+        assert (
+            UnmanagedZipURLDependency(
+                zip_url="file://foo.zip", unmanaged=True
+            )._get_unmanaged(org)
+            is True
+        )
         assert (
             UnmanagedZipURLDependency(
                 zip_url="http://foo.com", namespace_inject="foo"
@@ -761,6 +805,10 @@ def test_name(self):
             UnmanagedZipURLDependency(zip_url="http://foo.com", subfolder="bar").name
             == "Deploy http://foo.com /bar"
         )
+        assert (
+            UnmanagedZipURLDependency(zip_url="file://foo.zip").name
+            == "Deploy file://foo.zip "
+        )
 
     @mock.patch("cumulusci.core.dependencies.dependencies.MetadataPackageZipBuilder")
     @mock.patch("cumulusci.core.dependencies.dependencies.download_extract_zip")
diff --git a/cumulusci/utils/__init__.py b/cumulusci/utils/__init__.py
index 605818d96c..05140cc5cc 100644
--- a/cumulusci/utils/__init__.py
+++ b/cumulusci/utils/__init__.py
@@ -127,8 +127,11 @@ def remove_xml_element_directory(name, directory, file_pattern, logger=None):
 def download_extract_zip(url, target=None, subfolder=None, headers=None):
     if not headers:
         headers = {}
-    resp = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
-    zip_content = io.BytesIO(resp.content)
+    if url.startswith("file://"):
+        zip_content = url[7:]
+    else:
+        resp = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
+        zip_content = io.BytesIO(resp.content)
     zip_file = zipfile.ZipFile(zip_content)
     if subfolder:
         zip_file = zip_subfolder(zip_file, subfolder)