CBC Sudbury: Indigenous women-led modular home factory being built in northern Ontario
CBC Sudbury recently published an article about Keepers of the Circle’s prefab factory, which is being built in Kirkland Lake. We were proud to partner with Keepers of the Circle to provide skills training and guidance in panel fabrication.
‘The project, which aims to help Indigenous women build careers in construction, began a few years ago when the Indigenous group partnered with Tooketree Passive Homes, a company that specializes in energy-efficient prefabricated homes based in southern Ontario.
In the fall of 2022, six Indigenous women were sent to Baysville for three months to be trained by the company in making home construction panels for a 600-square-foot home to be built in Temiskaming.
"These women had no previous construction experience with tools or even how to read a measuring tape," she said.
"They built the walls, the roof, as well as the floor panels. And then they brought the panels back to the district and put the house together the last week of January of 2023."‘
