MAY 2017
        
        
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          business elite canada
        
        
          
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          fire spread across a million and a half acres
        
        
          for two months, displacing a hundred thou-
        
        
          sand people for months. Heavy North was
        
        
          founded and based in Fort McMurray and
        
        
          many of the company’s staff and families
        
        
          lived in the community. Everyone made it
        
        
          out of town safely that day, but some lost
        
        
          their home. “I lost my home,” says Heavy
        
        
          North President and CEO Steve Bolen.
        
        
          “Our office manager lost her home but ev-
        
        
          erybody from the area felt the pain of the
        
        
          fire.”
        
        
          Amongst the chaos Heavy North took ac-
        
        
          tion. The team got heavily involved with
        
        
          the clean-up efforts, working directly for