Ted Arnts immigrated from Holland to Canada in 1954 as a young man with a strong entrepreneurial spirit. He started his own sod laying company with a friend in the late 1950s, and in 1964 he and his wife started a trucking company, hauling sand and gravel to construction sites in Durham. They eventually started selling many different landscaping materials at their yard in Pickering, forming Arnts: The Landscape Supplier in 1972.
Supplying the Durham Region with quality landscaping materials and topsoil became a family passion –  the business is now run by Ted’s two sons, Michael and Ted Jr.