Norman H. Wilson, who operated a successful trucking company, founded N.H. Wilson Building Supplies in 1952, as what he saw, as a natural extension of sawing his own logs to build a cottage.
Since then N.H. Wilson has become a trusted source for local contractors and do-it-yourselfers with home and cottage improvement projects.
In the early days lumber was purchased from local mills but as the number of cottages and homes being built increased, local mills could not keep up with the demand. Lumber from major North American mills was purchased and delivered to Lakefield by rail where they were unloaded by hand and trucked to Apsley by Norm’s transport trucks.
Norman operated the business for 19 years from a small office in his home before retiring and passing it on to his daughter Marney and her husband Steve Metrow.
Steve and Marney converted a two bay garage into a store and office from where they ran the business for the next 32 years.
In 2003 Steve and Marney retired and sold the business to Kim and Joyce Dunford.
Drawing on generations of local family business experience dating from 1902 to their own operation of a successful contracting company for 25 years Kim and Joyce proudly built on the N.H. Wilson tradition within the Apsley community by expanding and modernizing the business.
