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This story takes place in St. John in the province of New Brunswick. Finally, a story from

New Brunswick. It's one of Canada's smaller provinces and one of four Atlantic provinces on the east coast of Canada,

along with Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador and Prince Edward Island.

New Brunswick shares borders with Quebec and the US state of Maine and is known for being the only official bilingual province.

33% of the population speaks French.

And if you're wondering what the deal with Quebec is, they declared themselves unilingual,

that's French only.

But back to New Brunswick, its port city of St. John has 126,000 residents in its greater area and is the oldest

incorporated city in Canada. St. John's harborside location made it an ideal base for industries

like shipping, shipbuilding and fishing. Since incorporation in 1785, St John has expanded to become the commercial

and manufacturing centre of New Brunswick. Lumber, oil refining, pulp and paper milling,

construction and export industries have all thrived and employ many of the province's residents,

as well as an increasing presence of financial insurance and IT sectors.

For more than two decades, St John resident Maureen Adamson had worked as a secretary

for a well-known and successful local

businessman called Richard Olland. Richard ran the Far End Corporation, an investment firm based in the

city. The Olland family were influential in St. John, thanks to the company now known throughout

Canada as Moosehead Breweries.

But it's actually a six-generation family brewery business founded in 1867 by matriarch entrepreneur

Susanna Olland. Richard Olland had previously served as vice president at the company, but for reasons we'll get into later, he now ran his own businesses.

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