Rosalyn Hyslop, is a social entrepreneur who is passionate about her family, the company she co-owns with her husband Blair and the communities they do business in. Rosalyn and her husband achieved their goal of having their own family business when they purchased Mrs. Dunster’s in Sussex, NB in 2014. In 2018, the company completed it’s fourth acquisition in as many years. Mrs. Dunster’s is one of the fastest growing companies in Atlantic Canada and is the largest independently owned commercial bakery in the region with distribution to more than 800 stores and restaurants in Atlantic Canada and the State of Maine.
In 2017, Mrs. Dunster’s was named Exporter of the Year for the Province of NB, received Food in Canada Magazine Leadership Award, Rosalyn was named a finalist for 2017 EY Entrepreneur of the Year and she and Blair were also named Huddle’s 2017 Entrepreneurs of the Year. Rosalyn runs a charity called Good Fit Book which recently received the Marilyn Trenholme Counsell Literacy Award. Rosalyn lives in Quispamsis, NB with her husband Blair, and kids Josie, Emma, and Noah.