Family Pastimes

Family Pastimes Limited is a small Ontario corporation founded by Jim and Ruth Deacove in 1972 and run since as a family workshop; Wikipedia records Deacove declining to sell the company outright when Playtoy Industries only licensed five game titles, and no later acquisition or outside investor turned up in searches. Corporations Canada's federal search would not return results without an interactive session and the Ontario Business Registry blocked automated lookups with a bot check, so this rests on the vendor's own account and secondary sources rather than a registry filing.

• Why Co-operative Games? Jim Explains. vendor_statement “We changed from a partnership of Ruth and I into a corporation with the full name of FAMILY PASTIMES LIMITED.”
• Our games are made of sustainable non-toxic natural materials. vendor_statement “Family Pastimes games are the inventions of Jim Deacove.”
• Family Pastimes - Wikipedia other “when Deacove declined to sell the entire company”

The vendor describes making every game by hand at its own workshop in the Ottawa Valley near Perth, Ontario, using offset presses, silkscreening equipment, and woodworking tools operated by the Deacove family, local staff, and summer students. No outsourced or offshore production is mentioned anywhere on the site, and a Made in Canada directory corroborates that the games have been produced in Perth since 1972.

• Our games are made of sustainable non-toxic natural materials. vendor_statement “Offset presses, silkscreening equipment, table saws, various other woodworking tools and an assortment of old and new machines provide the technology. The Deacoves, some local people and an eager bunch of students each summer provide the labor.”
• Why Co-operative Games? Jim Explains. vendor_statement “We have a modest little factory now with several cottages for woodworking and box storage.”
• Canadian Made Toys & Games - Made In Canada Directory directory “This Canadian made games provider has produced games since 1972 in Perth, Ontario.”

Every disclosed location is the company's own address in rural Perth, Ontario, and the vendor states its labor comes from the Deacove family, local employees, and seasonal summer students, all based there. No other office, warehouse, or staff location was found.

• Cooperative board games for all ages on-line, in toy & gift shops vendor_statement “Family Pastimes, 796 Brooke Valley Road, RR 4, Perth, Ontario, Canada K7H 3C6”
• Our games are made of sustainable non-toxic natural materials. vendor_statement “The Deacoves, some local people and an eager bunch of students each summer provide the labor.”

The vendor lists its materials as recycled pasteboard, water-based glues and inks, non-toxic paint, wood, and recyclable shrink film, but does not name suppliers or countries, only that safety testing is done in Canadian, US, and Paris labs to allow export to Europe. For a rural Ontario workshop of this scale, paper, wood, and craft-supply inputs are assumed to come mostly from Canadian and US distributors, so the split is an estimate.

• Our games are made of sustainable non-toxic natural materials. vendor_statement “I use 100% recycled pasteboard, water based glues, non-toxic paints on my wooden pieces, soy-based and latex inks on recycled papers, corrugated containers from recycled papers, recyclable shrink film”
• Why Co-operative Games? Jim Explains. vendor_statement “cardboard, waterproof papers, waterbased glues and inks, wood items, all of which have been tested for safety in Canada, the USA, and in Paris labs to be able to export to European countries”