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In the rolling hills of Chelsea, Vt., Ben Canonica has built more than just a construction company. He has cultivated a life story rooted in hard work, ingenuity and a deep respect for nature and tradition. Canonica Landworks, the business he founded, is a reflection of this journey — a blend of modern machinery and old-world values. Before he was a business owner, Canonica was a farmhand, immersed in the gritty reality of agricultural life. “After college, I worked on a bunch of farms and got into working with draft horses,” he said. “There’s something
incredibly rewarding about working with these animals. You train them, and they train you.” It wasn’t just a job; it was a way of life that shaped his character. Draft horse logging — an age-old practice of using horses to haul timber — was both a novelty and a necessity for Canonica. It offered a low-impact alternative to modern logging equipment and created a bond between man and animal that no machine could replicate. see CANONICA page 12
Toronto Developer Plans $3B Reimagining of Largest Ski Resort in Killington, Vt. Killington, Vt.’s largest ski resort has seen a lot of recent changes. Just last September, the resort was sold for an undisclosed sum to a group of private investors, many with local ties. Prior to that, in 2023, Great Gulf, a Canadian developer, paid $43 million to purchase 1,095 acres of land, including land and development rights at the base of the Killington mountain with hopes to do what many other developers have tried and failed to do — build a ski village in Killington with new condominiums, homes, shops, restaurants and what Great Gulf is calling the largest “ski beach” in the eastern United States.
The proposed mountain village that Great Gulf currently calls “LiveKillington” will center on 45 acres around the Snow Shed and Rams Head base areas. Great Gulf Killington expects to release finalized designs and begin the permit process later this year. But the idea of a ski village at Killington has been around for decades, according to a Dec. 31 report from Vermont Public Radio. Even Preston Smith, who opened Killington in the late 1950s, had some village designs made in the 1960s. Over the years, however, all the various plans ended up falling see KILLINGTON page 18