Lac Seul is looking into obtaining provincial wood allocations to start up a pre-fabricated house-building factory.
“We put in a proposal to the Ministry of Northern Development, Mines and Forestry to do with the wood supply competition,” said Lac Seul Chief Clifford Bull. “Our proposal centres around acquiring a pre-fab house-building factory in the community which would employ 40 people.
“We have not heard from the government of Ontario whether we will be getting that wood allocation, but if we are successful we have some international people that have expressed interest in partnering with Lac Seul.”
Bull said the pre-fab house-building factory would be built in Frenchman’s Head, where the homes would be packaged and sent to markets in the area.
“Hopefully we can have a market up in the northern communities and perhaps elsewhere in cottage country,” Bull said.
When I was a boy growing up in my home community of Attawapiskat on the James Bay coast, I was deathly afraid of looking at the full moon.
When I was a boy growing up in my home community of Attawapiskat on the James Bay coast, I was deathly afraid of looking at the full moon.
I grew up...
I’m happy to see the ongoing support and assistance in our northern remote communities to help our people cope with so many lifelong and generational issues...