The Pioneer Who Logged Off From a Life in It and Logged On to His Canadian Dream ; It's so Magical Here ... Just Like in Swallows and Amazons

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When John Porritt sold his internet banking systems company, he didn't hesitate to sign a non-compete clause saying he wouldn't start up a rival. 'I'd been in IT for 30 years,' he says. 'It was time for something different.'

His family and friends would say that was putting it mildly. The desire for a change was to take him 3,000 miles from an English village to a Canadian wilderness - and from sitting at a desk in the City to sitting exams to qualify as a building contractor.

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The Pioneer Who Logged Off From a Life in It and Logged On to His Canadian Dream ; It's so Magical Here ... Just Like in Swallows and Amazons

The result is an idyllic development of 60 luxury log homes and a clubhouse at Blueberry Lake, near Mont Tremblant in Quebec. The company now employs his son Alex as managing director, daughterin- law Gillian as interior designer and daughter Emma as marketing and events director. A second devel-opmenof 100 log homes is under way a few miles t...

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