How growing up
“Beyond Lund” shaped this ultra runner techie dad
DO WHAT YOU LOVE LOVE WHAT YOU DO BY ISABELLE SOUTHCOTT | isabelle@prliving.ca
Thirty-six years have passed but Joseph McLean still remembers how he felt when he and his mom, Terry Faubert, first arrived in Powell River in 1983.
Joseph running in the Puddle Jumper Classic 50k in June 2019. Photo credit Nancy Shield Creative.
“I was five when we came here. We wanted to live somewhere in the forest.” His mom, a wiry, petite teacher from Toronto, armed with a Reader’s Digest Back to Basics book about homesteading and living off the land, was determined to move to the country. “We toured all around BC in an old white van,” says Joseph. “We visited different communities and I climbed trees in all of them.” Mother and son slept in the camper that summer and eventually their quest for a “yes property” brought them to Powell River. “Everyone said we had to buy this property that Peter Behr owned beyond Lund,” says Joseph. “It was six acres of treed forest with road access to the edge, with hills, bluffs and a flat spot to build a house.” That property turned out to be their yes property.
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