Toronto couple ditches city life to build luxury hotel in remote Ontario town

After nearly a decade of condo living in downtown Toronto, Emma and Jacob Lawson traded the city skyline for 15.5 acres of land in the small town of Ravenna, Ont., a dream they'd been talking about since they first met.The couple first met in Tobermory in 2010; Jacob is from the region while Emma grew up visiting Collingwood. From the beginning of their relationship, they imagined creating an experience-based destination where the stay itself would be the highlight.That vision eventually became The Castle Keep, a boutique, adults-only bed-and-breakfast perched atop the Blue Mountains with just three private guest suites and a location rich in history. Emma and Jake Lawson.The name itself is "a nod to our proximity to Castle Glen, but also to the historic meaning of a keep, the final place of refuge in a castle," Jacob tells blogTO.Castle Glen was first built in 1893 by Canadian lawyer Britton Bath Osler for his sick wife. Jacob alludes to the original space...


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