ackets in alpaca fabrics imported from Peru (Sentaler.Spanner manufactures at their facility in Kitchener , Ont.ca)A more recent success story is the Stolen Riches shoelace (stolenriches.a pair, the colourful laces are a novelty purchase, a premium accessory that jazz up one’s existing (probably boring and black) lace-ups.They’re the same item, albeit with a new name and brighter colour palette, that a family has been producing in Toronto since 1915.But for all the winter coats, jeans and such, even in my fancily-laced shoes, I may be going sockless.One of the regular series in these pages is They Make It Here, in which we venture on to factory floors across the country to document the manufacturing process of an item, be it the Roots leather factory in uptown Toronto or M.C’s Viva Glam lipstick plant near the middle of nowhere, or Korhani’s affordable woven rugs in Sorel, Que.I’ve never met a Canadian factory I didn’t love to visit.I have chronicled Silks control-tops at the (sadly, now-defunct) Phantom hosiery factory, but now that homegrown McGregor is part of a multinational, I still have yet to see how a pair of socks gets made.So if you’re a manufacturer of reasonably-priced, Made in Canada socks reading this, please drop me a line.I’ve been looking for you and your children’s sizes, on behalf of a mother in Calgary.Elisha Cuthbert and Dion Phaneuf getting married in New London, P.SaturdayThis is the Prince Edward Island of postcards and travel brochures.Rolling green fields stretch down to the river.Rows of potatoes extend to the horizon.A great blue heron fishes in the bay.From a hilltop, the marram grass on the distant Cavendish dunes beckons.Lucy Maud Montgomery, the creator of the Island’s pigtailed heroine, was born in a house at the crossroads.It is hard to imagine a place more typically P.On Wednesday night , the hottest ticket in town was the weekly card game at the New London Hall.second place won a toonie.On Saturday, that tranquility is going to be shattered as a made-in-Canada celebrity wedding takes over the town.Lucy Maud may still draw the tour buses, but New London’s most famous living resident is Toronto Maple Leafs captain Dion Phaneuf, who spends much of the off-season on his vast waterfront property here.More than 300 guests are expected at the reception at his home after he and Calgary-born actress Elisha Cuthbert wed at a nearby church.Phaneuf is well-known to Canadian hockey fans, it is Ms.Cuthbert, the star of several major films and television shows, who has propelled the engagement onto Hollywood gossip sites.said a neighbour of the church where the ceremony is to be held.But on the Island, people talk, and it’s hard to order hundreds of pounds of lobster without prompting gossip.who will be coming to town, others dread the onslaught’s impact on their peaceful corner of the world.Aubrey Bell, whose home and art gallery are next door to the Phaneuf estate, was posting No Trespassing signs this week to dissuade anyone who might be tempted to cut through his fields to get a peek.The rumours that we’ve heard lead us to believe that there is a possibility of unwanted traffic here.We feel that we have to be vigilant and protect ourselves.Islanders don’t know what to make of the wedding because they’ve never really seen anything quite like it.Paul Egan, who will lead the service Saturday at St.James Catholic Church in Summerfield.Rumours are flying around the province as if the old telephone party lines were still in service.There will be security patrolling the river (actually, just the shoreline.The Tragically Hip will perform at the reception (unlikely, since they have a show in Saskatoon that night.The bride will wear a mermaid wedding dress (time will tell.Phaneuf, 28, was born and raised in Alberta, but his parents are both from well-known P.An aunt on his father’s side, Janice Sherry, is P.s Attorney General, and relatives on his mother’s side own a major photo studio in Summerside.When he was growing up in Edmonton, the Phaneufs regularly returned to P.million contract in 2008 , the hockey star built his own summer home and exercise facility next to a compound of cottages owned by relatives.On the ice, the six-foot-three, 214-pound defenceman is known for his punishing bodychecks and take-no-prisoners style.But just as going for the big hit can prove costly (witness his overtime misadventure that led to the Leafs’ playoff loss to Boston this year), Mr.Phaneuf’s cocky demeanour has ruffled some feathers on the Island he considers his second home.We don’t act like that in P.Neighbours question whether Mr.Phaneuf fully appreciates what it means to live out in the country, mentioning the time he called the RCMP after a cow strayed onto his property.Or the herbicide he had a local farmer spray to keep dandelions down on his immense lawn.Three years ago, neighbours were jolted by the racket of a helicopter landing and taking off from his property over two days as it filmed him for an energy-drink promotion.Authorities even briefly blocked traffic on the Confederation Bridge, the only fixed link to the mainland, so Mr.Phaneuf could be filmed running on it.More recently, people say, Mr.Phaneuf has matured, and for this they credit the influence of Ms.He began dating her in 2008, bringing her to the Island that summer.It s such a quiet place that we can be ourselves and not get bothered too much and have a real summer away from the hustle and bustle of our lives, she told the Summerside Journal Pioneer at the time.Cuthbert, who has been acting since age 9, is best known for her TV roles in the Fox counterterrorism drama 24 and the ABC comedy Happy Endings, which was cancelled in May after three seasons.She has also starred in a number of films, including Love Actually, The Girl Next Door and House of Wax.A Hollywood regular, she knows the attention a star wedding can attract, and she doesn’t want paparazzi or gatecrashers spoiling her big day.said Phyllis Carr, the .