Monthly Archives: July 2011

As I walk around Trail Blazer this week, I see we are in production for fall, which would include products needed for fall pruning and don’t forget saws, knives & hatchets for the hunter. This week I witnessed the Home Professional poles and Mark’s Choice Loppers being produced for a November Home Hardware Flyer. I also witnessed a flyer being created to introduce our brand new line of handcrafted knives made in Frankville, Nova Scotia. the same town our founder and my dad Curtis Levangie was born. These knives will have a limited quantity of 50 each for this fall season, and we will begin shipping soon. So please contact me if you would like to be included on this exclusive list

This week we received great news, that Sam’s Club will be offering Trail Blazer’s Telescopic Jumbo Ratcheting Anvil Lopper again next spring, for 2012. We are proud that, this will be our 6 consecutive year producing these loppers in Nova Scotia, Canada, for Sam’s Club. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Jim Russell for all his hard work & valued commitment to Trail Blazer Products Limited. Jim represents Trail Blazer in the United States and is based out of St. Louis, Missouri. Jim has been instrumental in obtaining and growing our relationship with Sam’s Club, since our first season in 2007. I joined Jim in Bentonville, Arkansas last month when we were given the much appreciated opportunity to present

I missed last weeks blog and I’m a day late this week as the holidays are high on my priority list, despite the pressures on business and household budgets. With the schools out for summer, families will take this opportunity to share an exciting time of celebrating a bit of freedom and enjoying the innocence of childhood & family. In the midst of this time off, we can engage in many activities, like sports, camping and my favorite fishing. These valuable times will help develop us all into more successful, independent and confident people… or just time off to relax. The Levangie family enjoyed their holiday during the last 2 weeks in Sherbrooke Nova Scotia on the St. Mary’s River,

I hope everyone, all across North America, is enjoying their Long weekend. In Canada we are celebrating Canada Day / Fête du Canada, so we were off Friday. In the United States my friends are celebrating Independence Day, or commonly known as the Fourth of July, so are off Monday. Canada Day celebrates the anniversary of the July 1, 2025 enactment of the Constitution Act. Which united the colonies of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and the southern portion of modern-day Ontario & Quebec, to form a self-governing country within the British Empire. The colonies of Prince Edward Island & British Columbia joined over the next six years while the province of Manitoba was next after negotiation with the Métis in 1870. Both the Northwest &