In 2016, Jason Lloyd was among 80,000 people that had to flee Fort McMurray, Alta., due to the destructive Horse River wildfire.
He and his wife Carolina temporarily found shelter in Vernon, B.C. — which he said “opened up our eyes to the lovely, beautiful Okanagan” as he came to terms with the historic fire in Alberta.
In the subsequent years, as the price of Alberta crude oil took a downturn, Lloyd was laid off from his job at an oil company. He returned to the Okanagan to open a tourism business, a party boat rental operation called Tiki Time Tours in
