Jason Janeway lived in Portage Creek and was the only son of Henry Janeway and his wife. Jason never knew his mother, as she died when he was very young. In 2000, a few days before New Year's Eve, he met Shannon O'Donnel, who visited their bookstore. She wanted to wait for a tow truck because her car broke down and she found it too cold to wait outside. He joked that she might be a corporate hitman because of his father's resistance to the Millennium Gate project. When O'Donnell noticed that the rest of the stores were closed, Jason told her that they would never gave up, meaning he and his father would not sell their store to the people behind the Millennium Gate project.