Willow Creek Forge

The vendor's own site and an embedded 2015 Radio-Canada (RDI Économie) segment describe Willow Creek Forge as one individual, Martin Reinhard, who does not run it as an incorporated or expanding business. Corporations Canada's federal registry search returned no matching entity, consistent with an unincorporated sole proprietorship, and Alberta's corporate registry has no free public self-serve search to check further, so the mix rests on the vendor's and press description rather than a filing.

• About Us - Willow Creek Forge press “a single man who does not dream of expansion or industrial production”
• Search for a Federal Corporation - Online Filing Centre - Corporations Canada - Corporations - Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada registry

The vendor states its pans are hand-forged in Nanton, Alberta by Martin Reinhard, each one individually hammered and shaped, and madeinca.ca corroborates that every pan is heated, hammered, and finished by hand there. No offshore or contract manufacturing is mentioned anywhere on the site.

• Willow Creek Forge - Nanton, Alberta vendor_statement “Hand-forged in Nanton, Alberta by Master Blacksmith Martin Reinhard.”
• Cookware Brands in Canada | Made in CA directory “Each pan is shaped using traditional blacksmithing methods; they are heated, hammered, and finished by hand.”

The contact page gives a single Nanton, Alberta address and phone number, open by appointment, and the About and Custom Work pages describe only one craftsman, Martin Reinhard, with no other staff or location mentioned anywhere on the site.

• Contact Willow Creek Forge - Willow Creek Forge vendor_statement “OPEN BY APPOINTMENT Nanton, Alberta, Canada.”
• Custom Work - Willow Creek Forge vendor_statement “Martin J Reinhard, Master Blacksmith, completed his training in Switzerland before immigrating to Canada in 1976.”

The vendor identifies the pans' material as carbon steel but does not say where the raw steel stock comes from, and no page addresses sourcing or suppliers. This mix is an estimate assuming the roughly integrated Canada-US steel service center market that a small Alberta forge would plausibly buy from, with a smaller allowance for imported specialty stock; it is not a documented split. The storefront is the vendor's own site rather than a third-party platform, so there is no platform dependence to weigh here.

• 9" Frying Pan, 2" deep with Braided Handle: - Willow Creek Forge vendor_statement “The pans are crafted from Carbon Steel, the hands-down favourite with professional chefs in Europe.”