Ryan May

Ryan May has owned homes in Ontario for more than 25 years. He is not a contractor or a tradesperson. He's a homeowner who learned — often the hard way — how to research products, evaluate contractors, understand what building codes and regulations actually require, and make informed decisions about the systems that keep a home running.

That experience covers a lot of ground: energy system retrofits, roofing, deck construction, pool installation and year-round maintenance, and more. But what shaped Homeowner.ca wasn't any single project. It was the pattern Ryan noticed across all of them — that the information available to Canadian homeowners is either written for the U.S. market, scattered across forums and manufacturer sites, or simply missing. Canadian codes, Canadian climate, Canadian suppliers, Canadian financial structures. The gap is real, and it affects every major decision a homeowner makes.

Ryan approaches homeownership the way he approaches everything — systems first. Before founding Homeowner.ca he spent more than two decades building and running digital publishing operations, and the editorial standards and product evaluation methodology from that work are what the site runs on today.

He founded Homeowner.ca for the homeowner searching at midnight for whether their contractor's quote is reasonable, whether a heat pump actually makes sense in an Ontario winter, or whether the product they're looking at is even available in Canada. He lives in Ontario with his family.