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JR: My father was a hard-working entrepreneur in
rural Manitoba, and that work ethic and drive was “Our ability to provide redundant
instilled in our entire family. I have two brothers route selection and 99.9 per cent
and a sister, and we all worked with our dad at our uptime is something we are very
family construction business as well as on our farm. proud of.”
In the late 1980’s we brothers worked together to
push into the telecommunications industry. Staying
true to our family values, we worked hard and secured a large telecom program in the USA, which
reinvested in ourselves to grow our company assets lead to the creation of an American firm.
while becoming experts in the telecommunication
construction industry. In the mid 1990’s we BEC: Please talk about your focus on providing
identified another gap within the natural gas market access to communication for remote communities in
and expanded there. The tipping point was the early North America? Why is this important to you?
2000’s. I had the opportunity to become the owner JR: I’m from St. Martin, Manitoba. Though the
of two companies, one that owned and operated a telecommunications industry has really closed the
fiber optic line spanning two provinces, and one that gap for access to information and education over
completed outside plant design. Then, in 2008, I the past 20 years, St. Martin is still definitively
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