Large screen enclosures are not new. They were built in Florida for many years before we discovered them in 1991. Here's a short history of how Suncoast Enclosures here in Canada came to be. Back in the late sixties two of my Dad's brothers and their families emigrated to Sydney, Australia to start a life insurance company. When they moved, my cousin, Court James, and I were about 12 years old. S

ometime between those years, and after we were older and had started our families, Court discovered the screen enclosure business from Florida and contacted me to tell me that he thought this could work in Canada if I could figure out a way to have them stand up to our Canadian winters.

In the winter of 1991 I went to Sydney to see for myself and before long I was convinced that there was a definite need for a product like this in Canada and that we could somehow figure out how to make them strong enough to carry the snowloads here in Canada.

We calculated the amount of material required to build a room on my house here in the Edmoton area and on my brother-in-law's house in southern Alberta. This would be the snow test in the north and the wind test in the south of the province.

The material finally arrived late in the summer of 1991 and so did one of my cousin's builders from Australia. He trained me and a friend who later became our first builder. Harry is still building for us today. One of his sons is on his team.