Board of Directors of the Foundation:
>Ken Jewett, Chair of the Board and Founder:
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 (in1970), he left Abitibi and spent the next year arranging financing and equipping a plant for a new business called Marsan Foods. Marsan was chosen in competition across Canada as one of “The 50 Best Managed Companies in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008" and 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".
Ken is a Certified Seed Collector (No.195) and 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 5 years she has been a member of the Board of 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, , Secretary:
James attended Trinity College School in Port Hope and Bishops University in Lennoxville. He 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 a Director of Marsan Foods. Apart from 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 sat on 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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> Robert Keen RPF:
Rob holds an honours degree in forestry from the University of Toronto. Shortly after graduation, he started a forestry consultancy business, FORMAC Forest Management Consultants, which he continues to operate today.
Over the years, Rob has provided forestry services and advice to the Ministry of Natural Resources, local municipalities, woodlot owners, the forest industry and First Nations. In his work, he has also assessed regional wood supply, lectured at Sir Sandford Fleming College and participated in independent forest audits of northern Ontario’s forests. Today, he continues to provide consulting services in the government and private sectors.
In addition, as a silvicultural contractor, Rob has conducted tree planting and tending operations on thousands of hectares of forest land. He has worked with the forest industry and Ministry of Natural Resources in developing long-term forest management plans in central Ontario. He was Muskoka’s Forestry By-Law Officer from 1999 to 2006 and is an accredited lead auditor for the Forest Stewardship Council’s certification program.
In 2003, Rob joined Trees Ontario as Program Manager and is now the Director of Operations. He is responsible for the planning and implementation of Trees Ontario’s tree planting programs and the organization’s financial planning. With its partners, Trees Ontario administers the planting of close to 3 million trees per year on private land across southern Ontario. This is the largest not-for-profit tree planting partnership in North America. Rob led the development of this partnership, which includes over 65 planting partners, including conservation authorities, local Ontario stewardship agencies, silvicultural contractors, volunteer groups, forestry consultants, associations and municipalities.
Rob has been a member of the Ontario Professional Foresters Association since 1985 and served as Vice President for two terms. He was a Director and the Chair of the Algonquin Forestry Authority. Rob was also a Director on the Board of the Ontario Forestry Association for 10 years and has recently assumed the role of President for the organization.
Rob’s interests, when he is not working, include coaching basketball, instructing martial arts, cottaging in Algonquin Park, kayaking and canoeing in remote areas across the country.
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Member of the Foundation and Chief Executive Officer:
> John Cary RPF:
John graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 1969 with a B.A and came to Canada to take forestry at Lakehead University. He graduated from there in 1973 and 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 Licenses 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 and is co-chair of the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority's Etobicoke-Mimico Watersheds Coalition and is presently Chair of the Board of Trustees of Trees Ontario.
Outside his professional life, John has been involved in rowing for some 40 years and is still active. He is President of the Don Rowing Club of Mississauga and has coxed in Ireland and Canada at the international, national, provincial 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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Marketing Consultant to the Board of Directors:
>William (Bill) F. Boughner:
In September 2009, Bill joined the MLF team as a Marketing Consultant. He had a long and successful career in marketing and sales with a large international forest products company.
Bill has served on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Hearing Society, Trinity College School in Port Hope (and is now a Trustee), the Caledon Ski Club, the Muskoka Lakes Association and the West Harbour Residents Association in Oakville. He also served two terms as Vice-President of the Toronto Area Industrial Development Association and is currently Chair of the Residents of John Street Association of Oakville.
Bill’s interest in trees began with the two summers he spent as a Junior Ranger with the Ontario Department of Lands and Forests, renamed the Ministry of Natural Resources, and his interest in trees has continued ever since.
His mandate is to encourage landowners and property managers to focus their planting programs on planting indigenous MLF maples. His work will support the current efforts of a number of nurseries who are growing maples in order to supply MLF’s clients with increasing amounts of seed zone specific native maples.
Bill is married to Sandy who is a Registered Nurse and they have 3 married sons and six grandchildren.
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