Growing up in the service industry, Soula Burrell learned at a young age the art of hospitality and of making sure that others were well taken care of.
Her parents, both hard-working Greek immigrants, started from the bottom when they each came to Canada — her mom working in a factory and her dad washing dishes at a diner — until they met, married and saved enough money to run their own restaurant, eventually choosing small town life in the Ottawa Valley. Nicholas and Eleni Boretos ran Nicholson’s in Pembroke for 35 years.