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Toy Maker of Lunenburg

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

Nova Scotia workshop making wooden toys, games, and puzzles in-house from Canadian maple, ash, and pine since 1979, now run by WoodChaCallIt Toy and Wood Crafters under owners Elke Uribe and Ray Syvitski since 2015, sold direct online.

NS CA · toymakeroflunenburg.ca

95.4

Toy Maker of Lunenburg is a small wooden toy, game, and puzzle brand founded in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia in 1979 and purchased in 2015 by Ray Syvitski and Elke Uribe, whose registered business WoodChaCallIt Toy and Wood Crafters now makes the products. Toys are cut, sanded, assembled, and finished in the company's own Nova Scotia workshop, which the vendor says now sits closer to Halifax than the original location, using mostly Canadian-sourced wood. The business sells only direct from its own site and does not ship outside Canada.

Factors

Ownership

100.0 reported

CA 100%

The vendor's Our Story page says Ray Syvitski and Elke Uribe became the next owners of the business in 2015, and a separate WoodChaCallIt page names WoodChaCallIt Toy and Wood Crafters as the legal business name that purchased the Toy Maker of Lunenburg brand and product line. The Nova Scotia Registry of Joint Stock Companies blocked automated access with a Cloudflare challenge and a Corporations Canada federal name search could not be completed without an interactive session, so ownership rests on the vendor's own consistent account rather than a registry filing.

  • Our Story — Toy Maker of Lunenburg vendor_statement “In 2015, we—Ray Syvitski and Elke Uribe—became the next owners of The Toy Maker of Lunenburg and took on the responsibility of continuing that tradition.”
  • WoodChaCallIt — Toy Maker of Lunenburg vendor_statement “Our legal business name is WoodChaCallIt Toy and Wood Crafters and we handcraft and sell the Toy Maker of Lunenburg products.”

Manufacturing

96.0 reported

CA 95% · other 5%

The vendor says every toy and game is designed, built, and finished at its own Nova Scotia workshop in small batches, not mass produced overseas. The one named exception is the return top, which the vendor says is manufactured elsewhere and only assembled and branded in Canada, a minor share of the catalogue by the vendor's own account.

  • FAQs — Toy Maker of Lunenburg vendor_statement “Yes—every toy and game is made right here in Nova Scotia. Each piece is designed, built, and finished in our workshop.”
  • FAQs — Toy Maker of Lunenburg vendor_statement “The one exception is our return top, which is assembled and branded in Canada.”

People

100.0 reported

CA 100%

The vendor says its toys are cut, sanded, assembled, finished, packed, and shipped by named staff at its own workshop, and wholesale orders ship from Halifax. It is a single-site business; the FAQ places the current workshop closer to Halifax than the original 1979 Lunenburg site but does not name the town, so hq city is left blank.

Inputs

77.5 inferred

CA 70% · EU 5% · other 25%

The vendor sources its primary lumber, ash, maple, pine, hemlock, and marine plywood, from Canadian suppliers, but says wooden components such as wheels, pegs, dowels, and balls, and its Baltic birch plywood, are sourced elsewhere without naming a country, and colored toys use stains and lacquer from Germany. The split is an estimate weighted toward Canadian wood as the dominant material by volume.

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