March 2015
| Business World
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It’s all in the family at the Wilco group of
companies. What started in Thunder Bay,
Ontario in 1952 quickly spread nationwide
to cities like Regina, Saskatoon, Fort Mc-
Murray, Edmonton, Calgary and Vancouver.
To meet the demands of projects and opera-
tions, individual corporations were formed
under the Wilco umbrella. Out of four cor-
porations, three remain family-owned. One
of them, Wilco Civil has been in operation
since 1992.
Based out of Vancouver, Wilco Civil em-
ploys between 80-90 people. A unique cor-
porate culture that blends longevity and to-
getherness, Wilco Civil President and CEO
RobMaat has been involved since the outset.
“Wilco is corporate but also family ori-
ented,” Maat said. “We encourage people
to develop their careers here and as a result
we have a lot of senior people here that have
been here for a long time. In fact, our longest
term employee had a 25-year anniversary. All
