The Baron of Bonavista

John Norman is the sort of hometown boy of which all good burghers dream. He didn't grow up to find the old neighbourhood too small for his ambitions and to quit it for the Big Smoke. He went away to school, got bachelor's degrees in science and education, and returned to remote Bonavista, N.L., with a mission hatched in his youth: to tend to his roots. He's sat on council. He's president of the chamber of commerce and the Bonavista Horticultural Society; he's a figure-skating coach and heads more than a dozen different organizations or committees. And he runs a company, Bonavista Living, whose business is restoring his hometown's remarkable built heritage.