The White Oak Pottery, owned by John and Sharon Secord. The company originally started as White Oak Pottery (owned by Ottelie Book) which was a pottery studio/curio shop from Oakville, Ontario, Canada. Sharon and John Secord purchased the company (Ottelie Book was Sharon’s mother) and they began to design and manufacture ceramic products in the early 70’s out of their farm in Acton, Ontario, Canada. They supplied ceramic products to the Canadian Brewing Company, Molsons/Labatt’s Canada, Hudson Bay Company, Le Chateau, Bowrings, Birks, Eatons, Simpsons, Sears, Shendly Distillery, Seagrams, and The World Fair in Japan 1970 to name a few of their clients. They also expanded into the United States and manufactured ceramics under the White Oak Pottery label until the early 80’s when they decided to focus more on ceramic product design and manufaturing molds to make ceramic products as the market changed. They opened the new company as John Secord’s Masterline Molds. They designed ceramic products and sold molds primarily to allow others to manufacture ceramics. They have worked with many companies / film studios/ artisans internationally through the years creating products/molds and custom product/s molds.