Ordering Information

Our Sampler

This is the simplest, easiest way to try our chocolates. We make them flat so they will go through the mail as a letter, rather than as a parcel.

Loose Chocolates, in dozens.

This is how we most commonly ship our chocolates: in bags of one dozen, with a small sheet inside that lists flavours and foil colours, our ingredients and nutritional information, and a bit of information on how the chocolates are made.

Many of our long-time customers order this way to have chocolates to put in their own bowls, to divide up between friends and family, or to just have some on hand to enjoy.

$12.50 per dozen, plus postage and GST.

This is a new package for autumn 2009. It's a smart small box of one dozen chocolates, tied up with a gold cord. All of our ingredients and foil colour decoding information is inside. This is the presentation box - perfect for a gift for friends or colleagues, or as a hostess gift.

$14.50 per ballotin box of a dozen chocolates, plus postage and GST.

Another new package. This one is a classy little box of two chocolates - a maple and wild blueberry centre in both dark chocolate and milk chocolate. We offer this for banquet favours, for use in registration envelopes at conferences, and especially as table favours and hostess gifts for the holiday season. And for stocking stuffers. Did we mention that?

We have several colours available, including gold, blue, red, brown, purple and ivory. Many folks add their own ribbon or gold cord to these boxes to dress them up a bit. For orders of 48 boxes or more we can customise the insert card with your message visible as the box is opened.

$2.75 per small box of two chocolates, plus postage and GST.

These are good quality North-American-made tins, each containing 24 of our chocolates. The tins bear a nice paper label that is easily removed to make the tins a functional, multi-use container.

We have several other Christmas patterns, including several Currier & Ives winter scene tins.

$29.00 per tin of 24 chocolates, plus postage and GST.

We can also mail a tin directly to your friend or relative, and we can include a small gift card with your message on it. This has been very popular in past years.

The cost to mail a tin of 24 chocolates to any address in Canada will be $43.75 $Cdn, which includes the tin, postage and applicable taxes. (We can offer this set price because we have found that as the parcel travels westward the postage cost goes up but the tax rate goes down, balancing out. This will change as other provinces adopt a harmonised GST in 2010.)

Shipping into the USA

In 2003 the United States enacted a number of bio-terrorism regulations. In essence, they were creating a paper trail for their food chain, which is not a bad thing. The problem for small producers like us is that we would have to register with the US FDA, engage and pay a USA-based agent to hold our records, attach a label with 32 data items to each shipment, and give US Customs three hours electronic notice of our shipment approaching the border. For large exporters this is just another piece of paper for their custom brokers to deal with, but for small producers it makes shipments into the USA not worthwhile. It's too much work for a tin of chocolates so we abandoned the market.

On days when Americans annoy me, it seems that these regulations are one more non-tariff barrier to free trade. America only accepts free trade when it is in their interests. Canada exports 2.1 million barrels of oil per day to the USA; I'd like to see a data label attached to each of those barrels . . .

(As of July 2010, Canada was the top exporter of oil to the USA (2.1 million barrels per day) followed by Saudi Arabia (1.1 mbbd), Venezuela (1.0 mbbd), Nigeria (1.0 mbbd), Mexico (.8 mbbd). We can export our western oil because we import almost the same amount in the east, from countries like Norway, Nigeria and Venezuela. Someday this tidy arrangement will begin to come undone . . . )