Meet Gordon Pitts an award winning journalist and author, who was a reporter and editor on Canadian daily newspapers for four decades. In addition, he has written eight books of Canadian business biography and a series of local histories based on his home town of Madoc, Ontario, and of Hastings County. His biographical works include his 2020 release of Unicorn in the Woods, How East Coast Geeks and Dreamers Are Changing the Game, long-listed for Canada’s National Business Book Award and named one of the Globe and Mail’s Top 100 Books for 2020. He won the National Business Book Award for Stampede: The Rise of the West and Canada’s New Power Elite, his book on the business leaders of the Canadian West. A former high school teacher in Brighton, Ontario, before he became a journalist, Pitts retired from daily journalism in 2013. In retirement, he has turned to telling stories of the “country north of Belleville” – as poet Al Purdy called the rugged area from the Madoc area to Bancroft – including a narrative on the murder of a police constable in 1926 and his most recent release, an account of a financial scandal that shook Hastings County in 1914. These days, he divides his time between Madoc’s Moira Lake, where his family has lived for 150 years, and Toronto