Canadian Portable Restroom Operator Copes With Cramped Service Environment

Tight underground work site and a crowded staging area challenge K. Winter Sanitation as it provides portable restrooms for the Union Station excavation in Toronto.

Sep 10, 2013 | by Peter Kenter |

Canadian Portable Restroom Operator Copes With Cramped Service Environment — Construction crews outside the Union Station construction project in Toronto work on demolition and excavation. A Chantler’s Environmental Services restroom is seen in the background. (Photos by Peter Kenter)

THE TEAMThe father-and-son team of Ken and Roger Winter are the president and vice-president of K. Winter Sanitation Inc., a portable restroom operator in Innisfil, Ontario, Canada, about 50 miles north of Toronto. The company employs 19 people, in addition to Ken Winter and his wife Ruthann, who continue to work part time while they enjoy semi-retirement.COMPANY HISTORYThe company was founded as the Ken Winter Company in 1962, pursuing a broad range of business activities that included well digging, water pump repair, and portable restroom and septic service. Seeing an opportunity to rent the portable restrooms he was servicing, Ken

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