W.T. Hawkins

The company's own history page says W.T. Hawkins Inc. has been run since its 1949 incorporation by the Hawkins family: founder Willard Trice Hawkins, his son Willard "Web" Hawkins, and now grandson Kent Hawkins, with Kent's son Travis next in line. No registry filing was checked (Ontario Business Registry blocks automation and the federal Corporations Canada search did not return a usable result), but the vendor statement is specific and consistent with Wikipedia's independent account, so this is reported rather than inferred.

• Our Story – Hawkins Cheezies vendor_statement “W.T. Hawkins Inc. has been run, since its inception, by the Hawkins family: founder Willard Trice Hawkins; his son, Willard Western (Web); and, most recently, his grandson, Kent.”
• Cheezies other “James Marker remained vice president of the company until his death in 2012 at age 90.”

All Cheezies are made at the company's single, 100-year-old plant in Belleville, Ontario (moved there in 1956 after a fire at the original Tweed, Ontario factory); the company has bought land in Belleville for a newer plant to replace it. Single-facility manufacturing, all in Canada.

• Products – Hawkins Cheezies vendor_statement “Proudly made in Belleville Ontario”
• Our Story – Hawkins Cheezies vendor_statement “More than 100 years old, it is getting to be an old and tired plant. The company has recently purchased, from the City of Belleville, land in a new industrial park.”

Single-site business headquartered and staffed at the Belleville, Ontario plant; the company's own history describes three generations of on-site family leadership with no other office or facility mentioned.

• Our Story – Hawkins Cheezies vendor_statement “A disastrous fire in the Tweed factory precipitated the Hawkins move to Belleville in 1956.”

The product page frames the aged cheddar cheese slurry as Canadian ("what can be more Canadian than aged cheddar cheese?") but neither it nor Our Story states the origin of the extruded corn meal, the product's other main input. This mix is an estimate weighting Canadian dairy against unconfirmed, possibly cross-border, corn sourcing; it is not a published split.

• Products – Hawkins Cheezies vendor_statement “Made with Real Aged Cheddar Cheese. What can be more Canadian than aged cheddar cheese?”