Farmers Brought Him Their Dead Engines for 20 Years — Then the Only Supplier in the Province...

Farmers Brought Him Their Dead Engines for 20 Years — Then the Only Supplier in the Province Shut Down What do you do when the one company keeping your entire business alive disappears overnight — and you have 48 hours to decide? For Walter Okafor, a small-engine repairman outside Lacombe, Alberta, that phone call came on a Wednesday in October. What he did next looked, to everyone around him, like the most reckless decision of his life. Twenty years later, farmers across six provinces know his name. How a rural machinist built his own parts supply from scratch — after the last catalogue in Western Canada went dark The notebooks that started in 1994 and became the most complete knowledge base for obsolete agricultural engines in the country How his daughter Rebecca turned decades of handwritten repairs into a system that changed everything