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Muzzies Crokinole

Canadian-owned · made in Canada · based in Nova Scotia

East Margaretsville, Nova Scotia workshop where Murray Skaling handcrafts maple crokinole boards and accessories to order, finished on site and sold direct online and from the shop.

East Margaretsville, NS CA · muzzies.ca

90.8

Muzzies Crokinole is a one-person woodworking business built and run by founder Murray Skaling from his workshop in East Margaretsville, Nova Scotia, on the Bay of Fundy. What began as a general woodshop in 2002 became a full-time crokinole board maker after a 2006 gift board drew orders from across North America, and every board is still handmade, finished, and shipped from that single shop. It sells only direct, through its own Shopify storefront and an on-site retail counter, and no federal or provincial corporate registry record turned up, consistent with an unregistered or provincially filed sole proprietorship.

Factors

Ownership

100.0 reported

CA 100%

The vendor's own site credits every board to founder Murray Skaling personally, with no mention of partners, investors, or a parent company, and madeinca.ca lists the business as Canadian owned and operated. A Corporations Canada federal registry search for Muzzies returned no results, consistent with an unincorporated or provincially registered sole proprietorship; Nova Scotia's Registry of Joint Stock Companies blocked automated access behind a bot challenge, so provincial registration could not be checked directly.

Manufacturing

100.0 reported

CA 100%

The vendor states every board is handmade in Murray Skaling's own workshop in East Margaretsville, Nova Scotia, down to the in-shop lacquer spray booth, and madeinca.ca corroborates Margaretsville, NS as the manufacturing location. No second production site, contract manufacturer, or overseas assembly is mentioned anywhere.

People

100.0 reported

CA 100%

The vendor's only disclosed address is its workshop at 370 Seaman St, East Margaretsville, Nova Scotia, described as the shop Murray Skaling has operated from since 2019, and the business is presented throughout as his personal operation with no other location or staff named.

Inputs

38.5 inferred

CA 45% · other 20% · US 35%

The vendor does not say where its maple plywood, solid maple, brass screws, or rubber sleeves are sourced, so the split is an estimate. Hard maple grows in both Nova Scotia and the US Northeast, and a small Annapolis Valley shop is plausibly nearer to regional Canadian or US Atlantic lumber suppliers than to any recorded overseas one, while the brass hardware and rubber sleeves are commodity parts more likely imported from outside North America. The storefront runs on Shopify, a Canadian company, which weighs slightly toward the CA share.

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