I Did it My Way: Zita Cobb, founder of Canada's Fogo Island Inn

‘It all started I am an eighth-generation Fogo Islander, the only girl in a family of seven children, born second last, in a house with no running water or electricity. When I was five, there was an outbreak of tuberculosis in our remote community. A boat came with an X-ray machine and we all lined up. I was diagnosed, then taken to the other side of Newfoundland, having to cross a huge province and land mass to a hospital with chicken wire on the windows. My family couldn’t visit me — for a year. Early adversity breeds a kind of grit and early independence.