A Sled Maker's Journal

We’re an equal opportunity family. We encourage equal opportunity experiences. Fishing is one of those experiences. Wearing a pink Barbie doll life jacket is another... no matter your gender. Here ...

We are thankful for the kind, hard-working northern Minnesota business we worked with this past year to hand make toboggan pads. These pads take effort to put together and they do an excellent job ...

Our wooden freight sleds have been around for quite a while. My mentor used to make quite a few each winter to support commercial fishing in Northern Manitoba and Saskatchewan. There are a lot of i...

Folks who’ve been to the Northern Toboggan Co. website are aware of our primary product line of wooden toboggans and wooden sleds. Those who have dug into it more realize that our products have bee...

"Hi Solveig, I thought you might like to see one of your wooden rockets in the field. It's awesome. Thanks again, Leo Dodds" (Stockton, New Jersey)

We received the following note and these photos last week from a couple of happy customers who gave a toboggan as a gift this Christmas... Here are some photos of ‎my son, his wife and my granddau...

Our Sled Maker is busy this time of year. Extra busy. With orders for our Traditional Toboggans from the Canadian North, Freight Sled and Hand Toboggan enthusiasts reaching out as they begin to pla...

"This is a drawing about Grandpa going down on his toboggan he just made. My cousins and I are throwing snowballs at him while he is flying down Harren Mountain. Grandma is at the top, along with m...

My introduction to handcrafted toboggans and sleds came in about 1985, when my uncle, Fr. Raymond DesChenes of the Oblate Fathers of Winnipeg, Manitoba encouraged me to build toboggans for the Cana...