Michael D. Pitt

Michael Pitt moved to Canada from California in 1975 to accept a position at the University of British Columbia as a Professor of Grassland Ecology in the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, where he eventually served as Associate Dean for eight years. In 1981, he married his wife Kathleen, who also worked at the university as an administrator in Information Technology Services.

The lure of a rural lifestyle, however, with golden sun reflecting on winter snow, inevitably proved irresistible. Kathleen said goodbye to commuter traffic, deadlines, memos and office walls in 2000. Michael escaped 18 months later. They now live on 565 acres in the aspen parkland near Preeceville, Saskatchewan, where they operate Meadow's Edge Bed & Breakfast, with the help of Shadow, their rescue Siberian husky.