Keith and Jessa Bedford started The Little Donut Bakery in 2019. Jessa’s grandparents, Eldred and Rosella Johnson, first brought mini donuts to western Canada in 1968 as a franchise of Tom Thumb Donuts, a mini donut business in Minnesota that currently operates today. They established themselves on the main fair route in Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton, Regina, and Vancouver. It took five years to break even and Eldred continued contract welding to make ends meet, with help from their sons, Jerry, Steven, and Glen, through the early 1980s.