Origins

My great-grandfather began spending summers in the Parry Sound area, on Georgian Bay, at the turn of the last century. Eventually, he built a tent platform on an island across from Bear's Head, near the entrance to the South Channel. My mother and my aunt grew up spending summers in this place, and so, in my turn, did I.

This place gets into your soul. It intertwines with your life and changes you.

So when I think about the big issues of our time -- the economy, or the environment, or where energy should come from -- the internal compass that steers me through those thoughts is pointing, more often then not, straight to a wind-blasted piece of Precambrian Shield where I became who I am today.