The company now finds itself in an interesting quandary thanks to the pandemic - demand for the game has exploded over the past two years. “The idea behind that is if you have a dining room that you use only a few times a year, it would be better to have a pool table there and when you have people come over, you can make a dining room table out of it,” said the company’s vice president, Michel’s son Mike. It struck upon a hugely successful idea in 2007, when it started making its “condo line” - a line of pool tables that include a wooden top that can allow the table to be used as a conventional dinner table, and then converted to a pool table for leisure purposes. The company has managed to succeed largely thanks to adaptations it has made to its offerings. I’m too young a fellow anyway to start playing golf,” he said.

“I’m not the sort of person to stop and play golf. Lemyre, now 78, is stil president of the company and still goes to work every day. “I prefer to sell the tables now than playing on them.” “I used to be good but I don’t play anymore,” he told CTV News. And thus Canada Billiard was born - billed as the last industrial manufacturer of pool tables in Canada - its factory is in another location but is still in Laval. So he decided to make the tables himself.

Things were clicking along for about a decade when he hit a snag - he couldn’t find anyone to sell him aftermarket fabric for the tables for maintenance. In 1973, Michel Lemyre started an amusement business in Laval, selling coin-operated pool tables to bars and restaurants.

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