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Arcadia Puzzles

Canadian-owned · made overseas · based in Ontario

Markham, Ontario puzzle company publishing jigsaw puzzles with exclusive independent-artist illustrations, sold direct online and through several Canadian puzzle retailers.

Markham, ON CA · www.arcadiapuzzles.com

65.2

Arcadia Puzzles is a small, apparently solo-founder jigsaw puzzle brand based in Markham, Ontario, run by a founder identified only by first name, Tammy, who commissions exclusive designs from independent artists worldwide. The site discloses no manufacturing location, warehouse address, or legal entity name, and neither Corporations Canada nor the Ontario Business Registry could be queried through available tools, so ownership rests on the vendor's own account. It sells direct from its own Shopify store, on Amazon.ca, and through several small Canadian puzzle retailers.

Factors

Ownership

100.0 reported

CA 100%

The vendor's own My Story page describes a single founder, Tammy, a Toronto-area resident who started the business roughly a decade ago and personally handles design and manufacturing decisions; no co-founder, investor, or parent company is mentioned anywhere on the site or in press coverage found. Corporations Canada's federal search and the Ontario Business Registry's name search both require an interactive session that could not be completed with available tools, so no registry filing could be checked and this stays at reported rather than verified.

Manufacturing

20.0 inferred

other 100%

Neither the home page, My Story, product pages, nor the shipping policy state where puzzles are printed or die-cut, and no press or retailer page filled the gap. Canada has no significant jigsaw-puzzle printing and die-cutting industry at this consumer scale, and independent publishers of this size typically contract overseas printers, so the mix is a judgment call in the absence of any disclosed location.

People

100.0 reported

CA 100%

A shopping directory places the business in Markham, Ontario, and the founder describes herself in her own story and in a retailer's Instagram vendor spotlight as a Toronto-area resident running the operation herself, with no other staff or location mentioned. No registry filing confirms an office address, so this stays at reported.

Inputs

28.0 inferred

CA 10% · other 90%

No page discloses where puzzle board, ink, or the fabric storage bags come from; with manufacturing assumed overseas, the board and printing inputs are assumed to travel with it. The storefront itself runs on Shopify, a Canadian platform, which accounts for the small Canadian share.

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