TimberTown Building Centre Ltd

“TimberTown was founded on March 11, 1981, by Matt Stayner, with the tremendous backing of his wife Delia (Dee) who willingly invested their entire savings and pledged the family home to secure the needed bank financing. Stayner left a job in wholesale lumber sales to start a retail lumberyard of his own. The reason for starting? “I’d seen a lot of lumberyards, and I just knew I could do it better.” After a few years of setting up his first two Calgary stores, Stayner needed a capable manager and partner. A well-respected, mutual connection led him to Dick Karperien, who was already running an Edmonton lumber store. They immediately recognized their individual strengths and how their different management styles could complement each other. A partnership was born with Dick moving to Calgary to join TimberTown in 1987.”