Zane Kelsall of “Two If By Sea Café” (Nova Scotia) won the BDC Young Entrepreneur Award and the $100,000 BDC Grand Prize for Innovation while Mike Miltimore’s “Lee’s Music” of British Columbia was runner-up, with a $25,000 BDC Consulting customized Internet strategy.

For the first time, the Business Development Bank of Canada’s (BDC) Young Entrepreneur Award contest engaged the general public in choosing the winners. The contest introduced an innovative online approach that used mobile technologies and the power of social media to enable Canadians to vote for the eight projects that competed in the BDC Young Entrepreneur Award finals.