Not many years after the production of Kalmartrissan was started, Elfverson & Co (at that time the company was known as Kalmar Bobbin) came in contact with the Canadian company Cheerio. From that time on, Elfverson produced a number of different yo-yo models for various Canadian companies.
In 1968 Elfverson & Co began producing
Olympic and Pro Yo-Yos for the National Yo-Yo & Bo-Lo Company Limited, also
based in Toronto. Between 1968 and 1977, Elfverson made 3,8 million Pros, 2
million Olympics , 400,000 Original Genuine Tournament yo-yos and 400,000
Juniors for the National Company.
In
1978 National became the Parker Brothers Company, and new models were created for them. With the Parker logo,
585,000 Pro’s and 285,000 Olympics were sold.
Between 1987 and 1995 1,5 million Pro and
Olympic yo-yos were sold to another Canadian company, Canada Games. Once again,
the Pro and Olympic logos were slightly changed.
Some Pro and Olympic yo-yos were also sold to
Action Games and Toys, in England.
The Pro and Olympic yo-yos have also been known
as ”the genuine Swedish wooden yo-yo”, as they have a small “Sweden”
stamp on one side.
A more short lived Canadian yo-yo was the
Classic / Classique, produced for Playtoy Industries in 1997. The company went
bankrupt and only 340,000 Classiques were made.
In 1999 Irwin Toys, based in Toronto, took over the sale of Olympics and Pros. The company declared bankruptcy in December 2002. 243,000 Pros and 56,000 Olympics were sold during these years.
For two years Elfverson & Co sent Pro's and Olympics to the Toronto based company.
In 2006 we started sending a few yo-yos to an artist in Langley, Canada. To see the yo-yos, click here.