 Murray and a group of friends won one of the first tree-planting contracts in British Columbia in 1970, starting what would become Brinkman and Associates Reforestation.Starting as a small tree-planting proprietorship in British Columbia, the business began to expand when Joyce and Dirk started working together in 1975.In 1979, Murray incorporated Brinkman and Associates Reforestation Ltd. with her husband Dirk Brinkman.