The earliest known board was made by craftsman, Eckhardt Wettlaufer in 1876 in Canada. Several other home-made boards of southwestern Ontario origin, and dating from the 1870s have been discovered since.Crokinole is often believed to be of Mennonite or Amish origins, but there is no evidence to support this.The name "Crokinole" is believed to derive from the term Croquet-in-the-hole, because of the style of game play that can be likened to playing croquet on a table with a hole as the hoop