Can you help an English Archer?

[Sherwood Forester]

Hello and best wishes to all you Canadian archers.
Could do with a little help with regards to Archery Craft of Toronto.

Have just bought a one piece hunting bow at a car boot sale here in the UK - to be honest I bought it because it looked so pretty - I normally shoot a longbow or modern take down recurve.

Its laminated wood with fibreglass on the outsides of the limbs, 60inches, marked "Archery Craft, Totonto" B110, 43#, 28", 513.

Any of you guys know anything about the company - seems it is no longer going.

Kind regards,

Forester

[Woodenrobot]

This is the most I was able to find I hope it helps but I trust you have already found as much your self:
Two small bowmakers from the area just west of Toronto, Les Dunsdon and Harry Tillmark, got together to make bows and equipment under the combined name of Dunmark. Sometime in the 60s they retired and another Toronto company, Archery Craft, bought out Dunmark. It became Dunarco, then in the 70s shortened to DACO.

DACO, based just north of Toronto, made a whole lot of the best solid fiberglass camp/youth bows, plus crossbows (that's where Bill Troubridge of Excalibur started) and bought out the archery division of Outers which made the Astro Regency and other top US compounds of the late 70s, and started producing them here in Canada. For a while DACO went as "Astro-DACO". Then, in the early 80s, DACO was bought out by a Quebec company called "TOPO" which promptly folded, killing the entire line.

Good luck in you search and enjoy you new found piece of archery antiquity.