Our Mantra
Slowtime Ventures is a company that was created when we bought this special place.
Slowtime’s mission is a bold and transformational one: It is to ensure that the rich history of the past 200 years is not lost, by "Leading while Remembering". We feel the key is to honor the past while creating a new and relevant commercial purpose - for today and for the future. In this way, this amazing place that started as Pointe-au-Baril so long ago, with an iconic tower, can lead the way for the next 200 years.
We will work with other like-minded people and organizations to make this vision a reality.
To achieve this, the first step is to show that old buildings can be restored in a way that they can meet or exceed the highest green building standards, embedding the latest renewable technologies, and restored in a way that provides the broadest range of potential commercial uses in the present and adaptability for the future.
Goals include: restoring this special place - with commercial roots back to the french fort in the 1750s, to the flour mill for which the stone windmill was built in 1828, to its short life as a distillery just before Confederation, and then Maitland Charts and the Pointe Farm in the 1900s.
Our goal is to reconnect this place to the local community in the context of the intersection of art, technology, nature and culture; renewable energy, healthy local food, permaculture, micro-grid, enhancing the health of the St. Lawrence River ecosystem, mentoring the next generation, technology for a sustainable future….
The Charts building ("Chart House") is currently under restoration, and the iconic tower will come next.
Meet the Captain
Philip Ling, P.Eng.
Captain
Philip is a licensed professional engineer (electrical), LEED AP. In 1996, he co-founded Powersmiths International Corp. where he is VP of Technology. Powersmiths is a clean-tech company with a long history of market leadership in ultra-high efficiency low voltage dry-type transformers, internet data center power distribution systems, advanced metering and Sustainability Management.
Philip has written and presented dozens of technical papers over the past 25 years covering efficiency and power quality, and received a national award for technological leadership in energy efficiency from Natural Resources Canada. He also sits on multiple professional and community advisory committees.
He volunteers on several committees in his community including Markham Environmental Advisory Committee. He is committed to wildlife preservation and owns 87 acres of provincially significant wetlands, and has signed a conservation agreement for 400 acres with the Couchiching Conservancy. He has both solar hot water and solar PV systems on his home, and is on his second electric car. He believes in leading by example and making a difference.
This place in Maitland is the opportunity of a lifetime - to be an enabler - to lead the restoration and transformation of an important part of Canada's early days almost 200 years ago to playing a role for the next 200 years.
Crew
Crew
Coming soon...
"We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths."
Walt Disney