The Occurrence

TheOccurrence Inc. was incorporated in Ontario in March 2024 by co-founders Michael Bainbridge and Brigitte Gall, who call the company 100 percent Canadian owned and operated. Ontario's public registry confirms the corporation and its Ontario head office but, unlike the federal individuals-with-significant-control register, does not disclose shareholders, so the ownership share rests on the vendor's own statement rather than a filing.

• About | TheOccurrence vendor_statement “TheOccurrence is a 100% owned, operated, and unreasonably proudly Canadian jigsaw puzzle manufacturing company located in rural Ontario.”
• View Corporation registry “THEOCCURRENCE INC. (1000827623) [Ontario Business Corporation]”

The vendor states it designs, prints, cuts, and boxes every puzzle at its Merrickville, Ontario location with no manufacturing partners outside Canada, and madeinca.ca repeats that each puzzle is crafted in-house there. No registry filing or independent inspection corroborates this beyond the vendor's own statement and the directory entry.

• About | TheOccurrence vendor_statement “We design, print, cut, and box in our Merrickville, Ontario location (no manufacturing ‘partners’ outside of Canada here).”
• Puzzles: The Occurrence 🍁 | Made in CA directory “Each Occurrence puzzle is meticulously crafted in-house.”

The vendor's only disclosed site is its combined factory, store, and gallery in Merrickville, Ontario, where the founders work and every online order ships from. Ontario's business registry independently confirms an Ontario head office for TheOccurrence Inc., recorded in nearby Kemptville, and no other location was found.

• Where to Buy | TheOccurrence vendor_statement “Factory/Store/Gallery”
• View Corporation registry “Registered or Head Office Address Kemptville, Ontario, Canada”

Puzzles are glued onto '100% recycled Eska board'; Eska B.V., the maker of that board, mills its solid board only at its two plants in Sappemeer and Hoogezand, Netherlands, and names jigsaw puzzles among its markets, so the puzzle backing itself is EU sourced. The photographic paper and pigment inks are not attributed to a country, and the vendor's storefront runs on Square Online (formerly Weebly), a US-owned platform, so the remaining split is an estimate.

• About | TheOccurrence vendor_statement “true photographic-quality prints using museum-grade pigment inks on Satin paper, and glued with archival adhesive onto 100% recycled graphic board”
• Developing our dream for well over a century - ESKA other “Creating hardcover books, hardwearing jigsaw puzzles, high quality files, robust and reusable games”