Evergo Packaging is a company formed to fulfill a specific need within the packaging industry. There is a real need to have a small company provide innovative solutions and personal customer service that our larger competitors have failed to and are unwilling to provide. Traditionally, companies demand superior quality products as well as extensive face-to-face communication with suppliers at all levels. Evergo views this as a real opportunity to form a company to service the needs and desires of the customer.
The Porcupine's Quill was incorporated in 1974, originally as the production arm of Dave Godfrey's Press Porcépic. PQL published its first title in 1975, Brian Johnson's first and only book of poems, Marzipan Lies. Brian Johnson is currently the film critic for Maclean's and claims to have met Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones, twice! Many of the early titles were slim volumes written by poets Tim Inkster had met as a student at the University of Toronto - amongst them Ed Carson who until recently was President of Penguin Canada, and Brian Henderson who is currently the publisher at Wilfrid Laurier University Press.