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Made in Canada - Tobin and Cooey, both long gone.
Assembled in Canada - Iver Johnson, H&R and Mossberg, that I recall. Also long ago.
 
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the spank said:
Savage has a plant in Ontario but don't know if they do shotguns there or just rifles? I know it puts out a pile of rifles.....If memory serves they said around 2000 Axis rifles a day...
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Yes, the Lakefield plant is the same one that use to make Mossbergs.
 
Look up "Frank Malin fraud charges" in Google.
This will lead you to posts on the Double gun forum.
Frank Malin and his employees built some beautiful guns. Expansion of the business led to promises that couldn't be delivered, and accusations of his using cheap Spanish parts in later guns. Some deposits were taken and no guns subsequently delivered, leading to fraud charges by the OPP.
 
The fellow on the doublegun forum who posted the first-hand accounts of the F. E. Malin and Son story has the username Roy Hebbes. I spent the afternoon yesterday at his house chatting about the gun trade, particularly Birmingham, along with another old friend. They both knew all the actors in the Malin story and offered to talk about it but instead we mostly talked guns. Roy had stories about his close friend, the author Boothroyd with whom he would spend vacations, and Peter Powell, and how he met Mr. Greener, and so on. The Malin stuff, while interesting is just a scratch in the timeline of gun making. As Roy said, "Frank wasn't a bad guy, really. But when he got good money coming in, instead of putting it into the company he got sidetracked and did things like buying a Jaguar".
 
I believe the Lakefield Mossbergs were really assembled in Canada, from (mostly, if not all) US parts, to avoid Excise tax on imports.
 
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