About us

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Georgs Kolesnikovs first fell in love with artisan cheese when he tasted Oka as a teenager, when the Trappists still made it.

As founder and director of The Great Canadian Cheese Festival, he has extensive experience in event management and promotion—and a lifelong passion for cheese.

Georgs runs the popular cheese blog CheeseLover.ca.

Our Cheese-Head-in-Chief.

In the 1980s, he was president of Great American Media Inc., a company he founded in California. It produced The Great American Motorcycle Show series in all major markets in the United States, in venues ranging from Madison Square Garden to the Los Angeles Convention Center. Under his direction, the company also produced the U.S. Speedsailing Grands Prix in Los Angeles and San Francisco.

After returning to Canada, he founded Water World Productions and created the West Marine Trawler Fest series of boating festivals in major markets in the U.S. which he directed in the 1990s.

A lifelong journalist, with experience in newspapers, magazines and radio, Georgs publishes two custom magazines: Circumnavigator and Glory Road. In the 1970s, he founded Cycle Canada and Moto Journal. In the 1990s, he was publisher of Up Here.

An event like The Great Canadian Cheese Festival cannot be produced without many willing hands and smart minds. Georgs considers himself lucky to have a team of associates and friends he can count on:

  • Karin Desveaux, Executive Director
  • Terry Chong, Operations Manager
  • Rebecca Crosgrey, Event Co-ordinator
  • Lin Chong, Registration Co-ordinator
  • Jackie Armet, Cheese Co-ordinator
  • Becky Lamb, Volunteer Co-ordinator
  • Peta Shelton, County Liaison Officer
  • Ivy Knight, Cheese Gala Co-ordinator
  • Our good friends at Taste the County
  • Jane Churchill, Artist
  • Martin Levesque, Supporter Supreme
  • Mara Holdenried, Sister Supreme
  • Jean Morin, Fromagerie du Presbytère, Spiritual Advisor.

The Great Canadian Cheese Festival is an annual event, based in Prince Edward County, attracting cheese enthusiasts and culinary adventurers from mainly Ontario, with future growth coming from other regions of Canada and nearby United States.

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