The Toy Factory

The vendor's own history page names current owners Dan and Kathy Viau, who took over the workshop and store from founder Al Shumate in 1990 and have run it since. The PEI corporate registry was unreachable behind bot protection and no matching entity turned up in a Corporations Canada search, so ownership rests on the vendor's own statement rather than a registry filing.

• About Us - The Toy Factory vendor_statement “We're Dan and Kathy Viau”

The vendor hand-crafts its own wooden cars, trains, traditional toys, ornaments, and crayon holders in the New Glasgow workshop, roughly 65 items against a catalogue of several hundred. The rest is resold from other toy makers, including Papo (France), Le Toy Van (England), Arklu's Lottie dolls (Ireland), and Tinyly (France), whose figures, dolls, and playsets none of their own sites confirm as made domestically, so those product lines are treated as manufactured overseas and the Canadian share is an estimate by product line count.

• Wooden Toys - The Toy Factory vendor_statement “We make our Toy Factory Wooden Toys the old-fashioned way: by hand, one-at-a-time in our own toy-making workshop.”
• Red Dragon King with Sword & War Horse - The Toy Factory vendor_statement “PAPO's Red Dragon King with Sword is riding his favorite War Horse”
• My First Castle - The Toy Factory vendor_statement “This simple, striking & sturdy wooden toy castle by Le Toy Van of England”
• About Arklu vendor_statement “Arklu decided to set up business in Donegal, Ireland”

The vendor's about and contact pages describe a single workshop and retail store at 5607 Route 13 in New Glasgow, PEI, run by owners Dan and Kathy Viau, with no other location or staff count disclosed. The PEI business registry that might otherwise confirm this was unreachable.

• Contact Us - The Toy Factory vendor_statement “5607 Route 13, New Glasgow PE C0A 1N0”
• About Us - The Toy Factory vendor_statement “The Toy Factory is located at 5607 Route 13 in New Glasgow, Prince Edward Island, Canada.”

The handmade wooden line uses pine and non-toxic water-based paint, but the vendor does not say where the wood or paint is sourced. Materials for the resold plastic, vinyl, and plush lines are assumed to track their manufacturing origin overseas, so the split follows the manufacturing estimate rather than a confirmed sourcing statement.

• Wooden Toys - The Toy Factory vendor_statement “Most toys feature natural pine construction”