John H Canto Paving, Landscape, & Bobcat Inc

John H Canto Paving & Excavation works out of 12 Evergreen Way in Harwich and covers Cape Cod, from Barnstable and Brewster across to Provincetown and Wellfleet. The Better Business Bureau records the business as started in April 1984 and puts it at 42 years, with eight employees and John Canto as president. It is one of the few contractors on this directory that is both BBB accredited and A+ rated, and it has been accredited since March 2008 — eighteen years without that status lapsing. The bureau's file shows no complaints and no government actions. The company also describes itself, in its own words on its own site, as "a family-owned, minority-certified company", though it names no certifying body for that certification. The work is paving and dirt in roughly equal measure. Asphalt driveways, walkways and parking lots on the paving side; cellar holes, lot clearing, grading and mini excavation for tight jobs on the other; plus hauling dirt, stone and gravel, retaining walls, and landscape work as a job needs it. The site adds parking lot striping, signage and ADA-compliant handicap markings, and says it takes residential, commercial and municipal clients — the striping and ADA work in particular reads as commercial-lot experience rather than driveway-only. What there isn't much of is customer writing. Two reviews sit on file, both five stars. The most recent, from May 2026, came from someone referred by a friend: "They did an amazing job. Very friendly and hardworking crew. The price and quality was amazing." A 2022 reviewer wrote only "Wonderful work!" That is a thin base for a firm this old, so the accreditation history and the four decades of trading carry more of the weight here than the star count does. One practical note before you call: the business appears under several names — John H Canto Paving, Landscape, & Bobcat Inc, John Canto Landscape & Bobcat Service, Inc., John H Canto Paving & Excavation and John H Canto Asphalt Paving — all at the same Harwich address and phone. Make sure the name on your contract is the one you mean, and ask which entity is doing the work.