
A childhood split between downtown Toronto and Nova Scotia, a mapmaker's education and years of learning creative tools from scratch shaped a tourism marketer who treats curiosity as both craft and strategy.
Destination Ontario built a public-sector growth loop from research, stories and partner links. The useful bit is not the postcard - it is how the agency measures attention all the way to estimated trips and spending, then admits where the math and the channels changed.
Most outdoor retailers sell equipment. Algonquin Outfitters sells the confidence to leave the parking lot - a quietly powerful model built from local knowledge, lighter canoes and six decades of fixing trip-day friction.