About Us

Upon graduating from Earl Haig Secondary School in 2012, Jonathan decided not to immediately pursue a higher education and chose to obtain some real world experience by getting a regular minimum wage job instead. He worked as a warehouse merchandiser at the lumberyard of one of the top performing RONA stores across canada, due to having to fill massive material orders each day for the hundreds of custom houses that were being built nearby within the North York, Toronto area at the time. It was a humble position that consisted of sweeping floors and loading construction materials into the trucks of the dozens of contractors who would frequently shop there each day. Jonathan used the opportunity working at RONA to meet hundreds of different trades people who he would interview, and ask for life advice, each day while loading their trucks with lumber or a variety of different assorted construction materials. He eventually left that minimum wage job to attain a college education and pursue internships with realtors and lawyers at the insistence of his parents who wanted him to have a respectable professional career. Jonathan eventually realized that his true passion was about both building and creating, which lead him to abandon his prior professional interests and instead gain invaluable experience in the carpentry trade, primarily specializing in outdoor wood work. In 2017, Jonathan partnered up with Patrick Nedza, another successful entrepreneur with a proven track record, to incorporate the business and Wayland Construction Ltd. was born. Today Wayland Construction has achieved several times the size and the scale it once had at its infancy and we owe it to both our values and our great clients who are attracted by our values. A small pebble rolling down a mountain will eventually become a rockslide.  These are the forces that pushed the first pebble. Without vision, teamwork, integrity, gratitude and community, none of this is even possible.