Maple Leaves Forever

Ken Jewett >

Edith O. Jewett,RN >

James C. Jewett >

Winfield C. McKay >

John Cary, CEO >

Board of Directors of the Foundation:

> Ken Jewett, Chair of the Board:
Ken started in business with the Abitibi Paper Company in 1950. In 1958 he pursued an interest in cooking into a study of the frozen prepared food market. At age forty [1970] he left Abitibi and spent the next year arranging financing and equipping a plant for a new business, "Marsan Foods". Marsan (in competition it was chosen One of "The 50 Best Managed Companies in 2005 and 2006") produces frozen meals for supermarket chains, restaurant chains and the health care field.

Jewett started community work as an Assistant scoutmaster. He had a farm in the Brooklin area where he planted thousands of trees and opened the property for Scout camping. He was a former Director of the Toronto Advertising and Sales Club. Ken was a Big Brother and is an Honorary Life Director of Big Brothers. This was a ten-year involvement. Ken was Past President of the Canadian Food Service Executives Association. He served as Chairman of the Committee of Convocation at Trinity College School in Port Hope as well as serving on the Board of Governors. He owned East Bay Marina on Lake Muskoka and served as a Director of the Muskoka Lakes Ratepayers Association and is also a member of "The American Association of Therapeutic Humor".

He is a member of the Board of the Ontario Headwaters Institute. He is Certified Seed Collector (No.195). Jewett was a Trustee of the Trees Ontario Foundation from 2002 until 2007.

Ken is the founder of Maple Leaves Forever and formalized its establishment in 2000
He is married to Edith Jewett. They have two sons and one daughter.

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> Edith O. Jewett, R.N.:
Edie graduated in nursing from the Toronto General Hospital and worked at the Princess Margaret Hospital for 25 years. She has been a member of the Garden Club of Toronto for the past 10 years which included a 4 year involvement with Canada Blooms specifically on the committee responsible for Flower Arranging. For the past 3 years she has been a member of the Board for Belmont House, a not- for- profit home for the elderly.

Edith is married to Ken Jewett and the grandmother of six children.

> James C. Jewett:
James attended Trinity College School in Port Hope and Bishops University in Lennoxville. James had a successful career in commercial real estate prior to joining Marsan Foods Limited. At Marsan he pioneered the healthcare division that is now recognized as Canada's leader in convenience feeding for long-term care and acute-care facilities. Today, James manages several key accounts for Marsan, earning awards including Supplier of the Year for Loblaws. As well, he is Secretary and Director of Marsan Foods. Outside of Marsan, James' interests include skiing, squash, and golf. James is a Sick Kids Leader and is active as a fundraiser for the Yellow Bus Foundation.

James is married and has two children.

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> Winfield C. McKay:
Win attended Upper Canada College and Jarvis Collegiate. He was President of W.G.McKay customs brokers for 37 years. He served on the boards of Levitt-Safety Ltd. and Besser Canada Ltd. He was a member of the Metro Toronto Police Commission from 1972 to 1982 and of the Ontario Police Commission from 1985 to 1988. Other involvements --- Past President of the Downtown Kiwanis Club---former Director of the Arthritis Society, the Boys and Girls Clubs of Canada, the Salvation Army and the Canadian Automobile Association. Throughout his life Win has been a keen naturalist.

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Member of the Foundation and Chief Executive Officer:

> John Cary RPF:
John graduated in forestry from Lakehead University in 1973. He worked as a Unit Forester for the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources in Dryden and then in Thunder Bay. In 1978 he went to work in Guyana on a two year Canadian International Development Agency assignment. Shortly after his return to Thunder Bay, John transferred to MNR's Queen's Park Head Office.

There he held managerial positions in the provincial silviculture and nursery production programs. John then participated in Ontario's Environmental Assessment Hearings as an expert witness on Forest Management.

In the mid 1990's he did a great deal of forest policy and legislation work during a time of huge change in how the province managed crown forests. He was deeply involved in the development of the Crown Forest Sustainability Act, Sustainable Forest Licences and the establishment of the Forest Renewal and Forestry Futures Trust Funds. He went on to provide advice to the central agencies of government including Management Board and Cabinet Office and to Ministers and Deputy Ministers on forestry policy.

Since 1998, John has been consulting, mainly in forestry. His work has involved forest policy matters, legislation, managing forest research programs, environmental assessment and independent forest audits of Crown land licencee performance. Also, he has been an independent facilitator of focus groups and public meetings with regard to large scale infrastructural changes in the GTA over the last four years.

Wildlife Habitat Canada gave him its Forest Stewardship Award for 2006. In 2007, the Ontario Professional Foresters named him as the year's Honoured Professional. He has been a Director of the Ontario Forestry Association and is past President of the Ontario Professional Foresters Association. He is currently a member of the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority's Etobicoke-Mimico Watersheds Coalition and is presently Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Trees Ontario Foundation.

Outside his professional life, John has been involved in rowing for some 30 years. He is President of the Don Rowing Club of Mississauga and has coxed in Ireland and Canada at the international, national and local levels. In 2005, he won a gold medal at a Masters IV event at the Head of the Charles Regatta in Boston.

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