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TRADES GET TRACTION
APPRENTICESHIPS MARK 50 YEAR
MILESTONE AS MORE YOUTH SIGN ON
REWARDING TRADES CAREERS P22
MODERN MINING CAMPS
NEW AGE MINING MEANS THE
COZY OLD BUNKHOUSE AIN’T
WHAT IT USED TO BE P34
THE SAFETY OPTION?
NO SUCH THING, SAYS NORTHERN
GROUP AS IT PUSHES BIG BENEFITS
OF JOINING THE COR MOVEMENT P44
REALLY LITTLE HOMES
TINY HOUSE MOVEMENT PROMISES
FREEDOM, SIMPLICITY, ECONOMY–
AND CHEAP HOME OWNERSHIP P54
MAN
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EDDIE PAUL BUILDS HIS NEXTREME
BUSINESS DREAM ON THREE
GENERATIONS OF FAMILY AMBITION P16
Iconic brands.
Legendary service.
contents
FEATURES
Trading Places
We talk with a well known guy who still swings a big
hammer, a young lady just beginning her career, and two
journeymen who are now partners in the company they
apprenticed with. PAGE 22
Science Comes to Cambridge Bay
Canada’s foray into Arctic science will have a new stateof-the-art home in Cambridge Bay. CHARS could transform
the community. PAGE 28
Iqaluit Set for Take-off
From its historic wartime beginning, air travel has anchored the growth of Nunavut’s capital. A five-year, $300
million project will revive the Baffin airhub. PAGE 32
Building the Modern Mining Camp
Today’s miners demand a lot of the place they live in. The
companies building remote mines are listening and building camps to keep them coming back. PAGE 34
DEPARTMENTS
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE: New executive leadership and
fresh strategy mark NNCC’s future direction. PAGE 4
FOUNDATIONS: Contractors collaborate in the Kitikmeot,
and NWTHC builds for an aging population. PAGE 8
BUILDERS: Meet our members. We profile six business
owners with great stories to tell about themselves and the
state of the industry. PAGE 16 & 46
WALLS OF FAME: Will tiny homes be the next big thing for
the North’s chronic housing challenge? PAGE 54
END NOTE: Construction by the numbers. PAGE 70
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Yellowknife, NWT, X1A 2P7
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welcome
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
Focused on improving services
I believe that without
the NNCA we would
see a very different
industry and it would
be a different struggle
to survive up here.
The NWT & Nunavut Construction Association’s membership grew throughout the past
year. This growth indicates that our members
value our services, as well as the networking
opportunities and the collective construction industry voice offered by the association
(NNCA). The NNCA is grateful for the continued support of its members and is focused
on improving and expanding our services.
The Association hosted a trade fair at the
December PWS Project Management Conference. The trade fair was a resounding success
as both a networking and promotional opEXECUTIVE
Bob Doherty
DIREC TORS
Trina Rentmeister (Treasurer)
Northern Interiors
T: 867-920-2289
E: [email protected]
Roger Anderson
Canadian Quest Logistics, Inc.
Box 2263, 26 Tuma Drive
Inuvik, NT X0E 0T0
Tom Livingston
Williams Engineering Canada Inc.
T: 867-873-2395
F: 867-873-2547
John O’Connor
ThyssenKrupp Elevator
T: 867-873-3232
F: 867-920-7177
Gary Collins (VP Nunavut)
Nunavut Housing Corporation
T: 867-983-2276
David Tucker (Past President)
NCV Industrial Inc.
T: 867-765-6109
F: 867-669-8872
Duncan Cooke
Arcan Construction
T: 867-765-0394
Janice Murphy
Murphy Construction
T: 867-766-4886
Chris Robb
Unico Contractors (N.W.T.) Ltd.
T: 867-873-8565
Dave Brothers (VP NWT)
Clark Builders
T: 867-873-6337
Mike Burns (Ex-officio)
GNWT - Public Works & Services
T: 867-920-6142
Barry Gaulton
ATCO Structures & Logistics Ltd.
T: 867-669-7370
F: 867-669-7370
Philip Nolan
Structure All Consulting Engineers
T: 888-617-6261
Jack Rowe
Rowe’s Construction Ltd.
T: 867-874-3243
VICE-PRESIDENT NUNAVUT
The establishment of a Nunavut Branch of the NNCA in
2012, with an office in Iqaluit, was a significant achievement for the Association. The new office organized a boot
camp in Gjoa Haven in 2012 and hosted a conference
in Iqaluit in February 2013. The conference was well
attended and the discussion was informative. Conference
participants identified numerous challenges, such as the
Government of Nunavut’s tendering process, conditions
and policies. Other factors influencing the construction
industry in the territory include access to a trained workforce and labour mobility.
We are looking forward to hiring a new director for
the Nunavut office of the NNCA and reconnecting with
our partners and stakeholders in the territory. The director will focus on identifying and delivering services to our
members to build capacity within the construction industry and influencing government policies.
Dave Brothers
VICE-PRESIDENT NORTHWEST TERRITORIES
Clark Builders was founded in Yellowknife in 1974. Since
1974, Clark Builders has grown – expanding both in
numbers and geography, with its roots firmly planted in
Canada’s north. Clark Builders is committed to the communities in which we live and work. Part of this commitment involves giving back to these communities – whether
this involves volunteering and sponsoring local events
or participating on committees and boards, such as the
NWT & Nunavut Construction Association. Clark Builders
supports the Association in its pursuits to raise the profile
of the construction industry in the north. Additionally,
we support the NNCA in its efforts to encourage people
to join the trades and to build capacity within the sector.
Working in the trades and in the construction sector is a
rewarding career choice. CN
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issues to the attention of all levels of government, whether it be informing the GNWT’s
Business Incentive Policy or the City of Yellowknife’s District Heating Project. The participation of members on the board, at our
events, and providing input are critical to
your collective success.
I want to give particular thanks to the
several governments and agencies that
have provided the Association with funding
which is so critical to the delivery of its programs and services. They include: the Industrial Research Assistance Program (IRAP)
of the National Research Council (NRC);
the Government of Nunavut; the Canadian
Northern Economic Development Agency
(CanNor); and the Government of the
Northwest Territories.
My final thanks to the members and partners who continue to support the NWT &
Nunavut Construction Association. I invite
you to use the benefits of your membership
to participate and seek opportunities with
our Association, as well as encourage other
businesses to do the same by becoming a
member.
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portunity for the participants. In February,
over 85 members took a break and enjoyed a
day of curling at our annual Curling Funspiel.
The NNCA is hosting its annual golf tournament in July and it is guaranteed to be a good
time. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the
NWT apprenticeship program, sponsorship
of our golf tournament will create an Apprenticeship Scholarship Fund to help build
capacity in the construction industry.
Louise Elder joined the Association in April
2014 as our new executive director. Louise
comes to us from the City of Yellowknife and has
a wealth of NWT experience. There are numerous challenges for her to address and opportunities to create and capitalize upon. However,
in a short time, Louise has shown the commitment, drive, and skills to meet these head on.
She will be organizing our project program
for the coming year and, in conjunction with a
committee, leading our strategic planning exercise. Louise is also responsible for reenergizing
the Nunavut office.
The construction industry in the North,
and our success as contractors, depends a lot
on how much we as businesses are prepared
to give back for the common good and the
development of the industry in the North.
I believe that without the NNCA we would
see a very different industry and it would be
a different struggle to survive up here. The
NNCA provides a forum for all companies
involved in the construction sector to bring
NNCA
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Box 2277, 3rd Floor 4921 49th Street Yellowknife, NWT X1A 2P7
Tel: 867-873-3949 Fax: 867-873-8366 Email: [email protected]
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FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Fresh energy for NWTCA
“RELIABLE”
Louise Elder, the
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executive director,
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decade for the North’s
construction industry
NETWORKING & PROMOTION
• Annual Curling Funspiel
• Annual Golf Tournament
• Construction North of 60 listing
• Online listing in membership directory
• Opportunity to participate in training,
trade shows, and conferences
• Apprenticeship Scholarships
DISCOUNT PROGRAMS
• Canadian North:
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• Choice Hotels Canada
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• Weekly Bulletin listing current,
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• 24/7 access to online planroom
• Commissioner for Oath services
• Gold Seal Certification Program
• Access to statutory declaration
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As the NWT & Nunavut Construction Association approaches 40 years of service to the
industry, a new executive director has been
hired and is already drafting the blueprint for
the NNCA’s future.
Louise Elder is a long-time Yellowknife
resident who brings to the job experience
and education, enthusiasm for the association’s work, and a commitment to improving
its operations.
“I’m bringing fresh energy, fresh ideas,
and a desire to work with our members to
focus our efforts and to provide a voice for the
construction sector,” she says.
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Elder’s northern résumé includes revenue development and support services for
the Canadian Cancer Society, records management for Environment Canada and, most
recently, land administration for the City of
Yellowknife’s Department of Planning and
Development.
She knew from the moment she saw the
ad for the NNCA Executive Director position that this was the job for her. “I did a little
bit of inquiring and the more I learned, the
more I decided that I wanted this job,” says
Louise.
Currently nearing completion of a National
Certificate in Local Authority Administration
through the University of Alberta, Elder says
it’s these studies that prompted her to seek a
position with more professional development
opportunities and more challenges.
One of the first challenges she and her
staff, Julie MacLean, Information and Events
Coordinator, bookkeeper Joanne Hicks,
and volunteers will tackle is working with the
board of directors and members to prepare
an updated strategic plan.
Elder says the new plan will identify the
concerns and needs of NNCA members, as
well as revitalize the Association’s vision, its
goals and objectives and the strategies they’ll
apply to achieve success.
“We’ve been serving the construction industry for almost 40 years,” she says. “We are
committed to providing them with a voice
and to growing capacity within the sector.”
– by Brad Heath
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CONSTRUCTION
NEWSNEWS
UPDATEUPDATE
CONSTRUCTION
What It Takes To Stay Safe
WSCC gets creative with safety message
The Nunavut
Housing Corporation
is bundling small
job lots under single
contracts to attract
contractors for badly
needed repairs.
PAT KANE/UPHERE
Nunavut Housing Needs Fixers
Critical maintenance lagging as builders are lured to bigger jobs
In a bid to lure more interest, the corporation has started bundling smaller jobs
into one contract. Those tenders are just
going out in the spring of 2014, Brown says,
so it’s too early to tell if the strategy will
work, “but the theory’s sound,” said Brown.
NHC has struggled with skills and supply
capacity for years, especially since the 2006
launch of the Nunavut Housing Trust, kickstarted with $200 million in federal money.
That project ended up going $60 million
over budget.
Brown says bundling contracts may help
in the short term, but the corporation desperately needs an injection of new skilled
workers. He hopes Nunavut’s new trade
school in Rankin Inlet will help. “We need
people who can do the work,” he says. “You
can’t fix the housing problem overnight.”
CMHC Charts Housing Markets Across North
PSSST! Want a hot housing tip? Where and
when to build or buy – or not? Then you can’t
pass up studying the latest (June 2014) territorial housing market survey from the Canada
Mortgage and Housing Corporation.
Chock full of current data on the local and territorial economies and trends, the free report goes
into great detail on sales, volumes, prices and
vacancies in all three territorial capitals.
Some highlights: In Iqaluit, the rental
vacancy rates are dipping to the two per cent
level, despite the addition of 122 new units in
2013. Average rental rates in Iqaluit are, no
surprise, the highest in Canada; at just under
$2500 a month for a two bedroom, double
Whitehorse and a third more than Yellowknife.
CMHC counts 1,991 rentals of all sizes in Iqlauit
not including public housing.
Average price for a single detached home
in Iqaluit was $432,444 among 36 sales in
2013. A condo or row house was virtually the
same at $436,212.
In Yellowknife, new homes starts for 2014
are forecast at 165 (135 as multi-family and
only 30 as single detached units.) The average
selling price for a single unit this year will be
around $394,600, which CMHC says demand
will be “subdued” by new mutli- and mobile
home offerings.
The vacancy rate in Yellowknife will surge
to 5.5 per cent this year driven by a tsunami of
new housing options – a much different scene
for would-be renters than the meagre 1.5 per
cent vacancy rate of 2010.
Rental rates will hover in the $1,665 a
month range for a two bedroom, nudged up
just a bit from the 2010 rate of $1,566. That’s
because even when there’s more choice, it may
take some time for the market to catch up.
– By Bill Braden
Wind In Diavik’s Sails
Miner’s pioneering wind plan is paying off
COURTESY RIO TINTO/DIAVIK MINES
The Nunavut Housing Corporation has received more than $400 million in the last
eight years to combat the territory’s endemic housing shortage. But that flood of
new construction means finding contractors to take on small but essential maintenance contracts – especially in smaller communities – is proving next to impossible.
“Most communities are too small to support a contractor, let alone two,” says Tim
Brown, NHC’s manager of policy and planning. “[And] in Iqaluit, it’s hard to find
contractors because it’s so busy.”
The corporation has a maintenance
budget of about $15 million per year, and a
total backlog of $60 million, for everything
from new paint jobs to total renovations.
But contractors prefer to chase larger contracts first, leaving smaller jobs unfilled.
Even when the workplace death, disease
and injury rates are zero, the work won’t be
over for the Worker’s Safety & Compensation Commission of the NWT and Nunavut.
The organization bears the responsibility for educating employers and employees
on, and advocating for, workplace safety.
It also compensates injured workers and
helps rehabilitate them, collects insurance
premiums from employers, and enforces
regulations.
But the core message – staying safe –
isn’t driven just by brochures and posters.
The team gets creative to get people thinking safe.
This past March’s North American Occupation Safety and Health Week was an
example of that creativity. In three major
Northern centres, they staged a series of
events to draw people in and spur on the
conversation.
In Iqaluit, the WSCC hosted the Safety
Game Show, in which four-person corporate
teams competed to see who had the strongest safety knowledge. In Inuvik, a Safety
Forum was held, bringing in local speakers.
In Yellowknife, the Safety Street contest came
back, when four-person corporate teams
made their way through a variety of safetythemed stations to test their knowledge.
Throughout the two territories in 2013,
there were 3,995 injury claims reported and
five work-related deaths. The number may
never reach zero, but the WSCC is continuing to help drive it down as much as possible. – By Tim Edwards
After paying $30 million to put up a four-turbine wind farm at Diavik
diamond mine in 2012, Rio Tinto’s meticulously planned foray into
renewable, remote-site energy is paying off. In 2013, the turbines
provided nearly 10 per cent of the mine’s power needs.
It’s all part of the plan. Prior to building the turbines in 2012, Rio
Tinto’s research showed the mine could generate about 10 per cent
of its power through the windfarm, offsetting diesel by 3.8 million
litres per year and cutting its greenhouse gas emissions by 12,000
tonnes per year. By doing all this, it would also pay itself off in eight
years.
Last year, the windfarm’s first full season, it generated about
8.5 per cent of the mine’s power. It’s pretty close to the mark, considering Diavik had to iron out all the inevitable kinks that arise in
the first year of any operation, Diavik communications advisor Doug
Ashbury told media earlier this year.
Adding to its achievements, Diavik was awarded a Canadian
Wind Energy Group Leadership Award last year for the windfarm –
the first of its size in the NWT and, according to Ashbury, the largest
wind-diesel hybrid system in the North. “It’s been an excellent project for us and very successful,” says Ashbury. - by Tim Edwards
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CONSTRUCTION NEWS UPDATE
Giant Mine Clean-up Plan Still Awaits Approval
$1 billion, 10-year program has already started freeze testing and early demolition
The federally-run cleanup of the arsenicladen Giant Mine site near Yellowknife is
tackling one of the biggest industrial messes
in Canada. Recently pegged at nearly $1 billion, it will take over 10 years to remediate
the mine workings and tailings ponds after
56 years of very dirty gold mining.
But the final plan has yet to be approved
by Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada. An exhaustive research
and regulatory approval process is itself approaching the ten-year mark and it may be
several years yet – 2018 – before the stage
is set for full remediation to be underway.
Top of mind is preventing 237,000
tonnes of toxic arsenic trioxide, buried
in 11 underground vaults, from gradually
being released into the environment. The
plan, in the testing phase since 2011, is to
freeze the rock around the vaults, effectively shutting out groundwater seepage.
On the surface, the mine’s crumbling
shops and mills need to be very carefully
cleansed of arsenic and asbestos residue before demolition. A $27-million contract was
handed out to six companies – managed by
California-based Parsons Corporation – last
year for the dismantling of the toxic roaster
complex, a project that should be completed by November. And there are creeks
and ponds and dump sites to be made safe
and monitored forever.
The $1 billion price tag is generating
a low-level but significant micro-economy
around the city and nearby Ndilo and Dettah. Contractors have been on site since the
mine closed in 1998, including a Det’on
Cho/Nuna Logistics joint venture that has
won several contracts to handle care and
maintenance.
Last spring, Yellowknife’s Clark Builders won a two-year, $7.7-million construction management contract. AANDC says 25
of 35 companies with Giant Mine contracts
have Northern offices.
This summer, AANDC is poised to hand
out two other major contracts: one to procure 120 shipping containers and another
to provide “interim underground stabilization activities.”
The project’s most noticeable impact to
date for Yellowknifers has been re-routing
the Ingraham Trail, which once ran directly through the mine site and over the
underground vaults. An eight-kilometre
bypass (to be paid for by the federal government) opened late in 2013 and now carries
traffic around the mine.
HIGH-TECH SOLUTIONS have been applied to isolate toxic arsenic stored
underground and safely dismantle badly contaminated buildings at the Giant
Mine five kilometres north of Yellowknife.
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Kitikmeot Contractor’s Workshop Returns
Labour Crunch Will Get Worse, Says Buildforce Canada
Contractors look at partnering, not competing to land bigger jobs
North will continue to need outside skilled labour to satisfy growth
Nunavut Housing and KIA (Kitikmeot Inuit
Association) held a workshop in Cambridge
Bay this past April to upgrade local contractors’ business capacity, a follow-up to a similar
workshop last year.
According to Marg Epp of the KIA, the
collaborative exercise promotes contractors
working together: instead of staying in their
competitive corners and producing less than
their full potential, they could partner on jobs
that would be too big for any one contractor
to take on.
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On top of that, it allowed for resetting and
clarifying communication between contractors and government, trimming red tape and
confusion about forms and applications. It led
to two-way discussions instead of one-sided
e-mails, said Epp.
Everybody had a chance to present their
projects one by one and make sure everybody
was on the same page. After feedback from
last year, there was a half-day workshop with a
lawyer on the legal aspects of the construction
industry. One big issue was, How do I protect
myself and my money? It also covered insurance for contractors.
Along with this, it was a networking opportunity for everyone. The payback? “Since
last year’s workshop, project completion rates
have increased from 50 to about 98 per cent,”
says Epp. Good to know, considering there
could be $500 million in construction in the
territory in the next five years. – By Katie Weaver
North’s Tallest
Structure Still Standing
Con Mine Tower needs an owner – soon
At 25 storeys, the retired Con Gold Mine’s
Robertson headframe is the tallest structure
North of 60… and the most endangered.
Originally slated for demolition by Newmont Gold Corp, the tower – a signature of
the Yellowknife skyline – was offered to the
City for free.
The notion of keeping it at least as a landmark for boaters and sledders (it can sometimes be seen from Hay River 120 kilometres
away) has also spawned a host of eclectic ideas
to help make it pay: aurora viewing, climbing,
housing and hydroponic gardening.
City Council, dodging an outright commitment to take on an expensive asset, will
ask Newmont to agree to a possible handover.
Meanwhile “Save the Con” is the rallying cry
for dedicated mining heritage enthusiasts.
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Good news: almost a dozen major projects,
most of them mines, are either underway or
proposed for the NWT and Nunavut, worth
roughly $4.15 billion in construction costs.
– a huge burst of activity and great for the
North’s GDP.
Bad news: We’d need a small army of
3,400 skilled workers to fill all the jobs they
would create. We don’t have the numbers,
not by half. The industry-led labour management group, BuildForce Canada, tallied up
the projects, plus skills requirements in 13
different trades across all three territories
in a report released this spring. (www.buildforce.ca)
The report, the first-ever by Buildforce
on the North, is a fairly high-level assessment
and one of the few, if not the only, that attempts a pan-territorial labour inventory. Its
conclusions are nothing new to contractors
North of 60, but it does put some measures
on an increasingly troubling question: Can
we get enough workers, with the right skills,
when we need them?
“Some new workers can be drawn from
the populations of the Northwest Territories, the Yukon and Nunavut,” concludes the
report. “Others will have to be drawn to the
territories from outside the construction industry in the North.” Depending on willingness to travel to a remote location, portability
of skills and experience, it may prove to be
a little difficult to lure workers to the North.
However, the wage is attractive to young,
qualified Canadians.
But on the bright side, thanks to this report the North and its construction industry
are finally included in the CSC LMI (Construction Sector Council’s Labour Market
Information) System, which means we’ve got
someone else out there aware of our high labour demands.
It also highlights another issue. Canada’s
skilled trades people are aging and retiring in
droves; in the next decade, 235,000 will retire.
And as many of the North’s prime projects are
gearing up for intense building from now into
2016, we’re going head to head with rising construction demand in all of Western Canada.
This prevents us from easily borrowing workers
such as the abundant machine operators (the
type of worker we need most) from Alberta.
This is just more confirmation that no
matter how many Northerners we recruit and
train, we’re going to need help from down
South. – By Katie Weaver
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BILLION
The total number of assessable employers in 2013,
up from 3,737 the year before:
Almost a dozen major projects are proposed for the NWT
and Nunavut, worth $4.15 billion in construction costs.
SOURCE: WSCC OF NWT/NU
SOURCE NUNAVUT BUREAU OF STATISTICS
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Industrial Land Surplus In Yellowknife
No appetite for industrial land during current resource doldrums
An aggressive sales pitch for industrial lots in
the Engle Business District flopped this spring,
a sign that commercial and/or heavy industry’s appetite for expansion has flatlined.
Land was opened up in 2009 with the creation of a new bypass from the City’s southern
highway access into the existing Kam Lake
industrial park, but only a handful of new developments resulted. This year, the city put 18
lots up for sale, with offers of price discounts,
tax incentives, and extended development
time. Not one sold.
The latest offering was $177,307 for a 1.5acre lot and $411,610 for a 3.6-acre lot, with a
discount of five per cent for one lot and 15 per
cent for three or more.
When he announced the latest sale, Mayor
Mark Heck presented the district as “strategically situated and competitively priced,
making it ideal for commercial or industrial
businesses looking to establish or grow their
operations in Yellowknife.”
Well, not so much. The signals sent by this
latest effort to grow the city’s industrial base
suggest that for now, supply equals demand.
And while borrowing rates remain at all-time
lows, developing raw land on the boggy and/
or rock-hard ground is expensive.
Anticipation for a handful of new mines is
growing, the diamond sector is on an strong
uptick and a surge in housing construction
lifted the local economy in the past year. But
the region’s key resource economy is still recovering from a protracted malaise and awaits
renewed confidence before making fresh
long-term investment. – by Bill Braden
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Sanatuliqsarvik attracting more students
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Nunavut is watching a lot of jobs fly overhead
with southern workers, and is making big investments to turn that around. One of those
is at Nunavut Arctic College’s Sanatuliqsarvik
Trade Centre, opened in 2010 in Rankin Inlet.
Trainers are building curricula to match
Nunavut’s young and chronically underschooled populations with the growing and
diverse needs of contractors wanting to foster
a home-grown workforce.
The course menu reflects this as pre-employment level programs are offered in oil-burner
mechanics, house maintenance and electrical
trades. The 20,000 square-foot centre can host
up to 80 students, and while it has yet to hit capacity, it is attracting more and more applicants.
“Overall, our goal is to create a more
skilled workforce among Nunavummiut,” said
Sandy Napier, director of trades and technology, in a recent Nunatsiaq News story. “And
there’s greater success for students to succeed
in their home environment.”
A long-range target is offering mining-specific training for the Kivalliq region’s booming resource sector. Heavy equipment operation, for example, is on the drawing board,
complete with realistic simulators for excavators and loaders. – by Bill Braden CN
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Going to Nextremes
Welder Eddie Paul builds on three generations of skill and service
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He applied it in planning and building a 4,000 square-foot expansion in
the Kam Lake industrial park, for a
total of 12,000 well-equipped square
feet hosting a staff of 12. One of their
recent projects was fabricating six halfmillion litre fuel tanks for De Beers’
Gahcho Kue diamond project.
He’s invested in state-of-the-art,
computer-driven metal cutting and
shaping fabricators. The pickup-trucksize machines have made his technical
options endless. “It’s like when I was a
kid playing in the sandbox, but now the
toys are a lot bigger and I’m more capable,” he says.
To round out his structural steel
building service, Paul also has excavators, concrete and slab-working capacity.
“Everybody here not only works together but after work we also play together,” he says. He hires employees based on that, as well
as those with good work ethic, willing to learn. “For us it’s
less about the money and more about the name and the
quality of product we produce. If something takes a little
longer and we make less money on it, I don’t care as long
as it’s done right.”
Despite all his own sweat and effort, Paul, 34, says he
has his family to thank. Being a third-generation welder,
he says the trade is engrained in him. Jimmy Paul, Eddie’s
uncle, first opened Paul Bros. Welding in 1978 – and the
rest of the Pauls couldn’t help but follow.
From budding student to business owner, Paul ex-
Since Eddie Paul was 13, he knew he wanted to run his
own construction business. What he didn’t know is just
how successful he would become.
Looking around Yellowknife, one can find projects by
Paul Bros. NEXTreme everywhere. One of the most recognizable is the iconic steel sculpture in Somba K’e park,
designed by the late Francois Thibault. What Northerners don’t see is all the work that went into creating Eddie
Paul’s Paul Bros. NEXTreme Steel Specialists.
Paul demonstrated commitment from the beginning,
earning a Pre-Engineering Technology Certificate while
he was working at Diavik, doing all of his homework after
a 12-hour shift out at the mine. But
“ It’s like when I was a kid playing in the sandbox, but
he still wanted more training to pursue his dream.
now the toys are a lot bigger and I’m more capable.”
“Fourteen years ago, I decided
plains it’s this family environment he grew up in that reafter getting my journeyman welding certificate that I
flects his business values.
wanted to go back to school to become an engineer, and
“We’re learning all this knowledge from the previous
own a construction company that specialized in structural
generation and it makes me that much better,” says Paul.
steel,” Paul says. “I also wanted to know why you build
His wife Myrna is also fully involved in the business, and
things that way, not just how.”
the couple has two daughters, Mya, five, and Launa, two.
He graduated from Camosun College in Victoria, B.C.
“I feel like I know the trade so well and a lot of that
with a civil engineering technology certificate, placing
comes from my family helping me out and teaching me
second in his 2007 class. After this, Paul soon generated
when I was really young, at ages when you’re really graspenough financial support to take over the family business,
ing knowledge and eager to learn.” – by Katie Weaver CN
Paul Bros. Welding, and to create Paul Bros. NEXTreme.
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Created by the Department of Industry, Tourism and
Investment, each of these SEED Policy Programs is geared to
providing basic contributions for starting out your business,
improving capacity or skills, or helping small communities to
economically expand…
With Entrepreneur Support – Start-up funding, capital
assistance, operational support, and market and product
development of up to $15,000.
With Sector Support – Up to $15,000 a year interest
reduction for two years. Assistance is also available to
research new opportunities.
With Community Economic Development – Support of up
to $25,000 for community-based business research or support
for activities such as arts festivals or community economic
promotions.
With Business Intelligence and Networking – On travel
costs in excess of $1,500, assistance may be provided to a
maximum of $3,000 per individual, with applicant contributing
a minimum of $1,000 towards eligible costs of each trip.
More Information
To find out more about SEED and how the Department
of Industry, Tourism and Investment can help your business
to grow, contact your Regional Economic Development
Officer at:
North Slave
Tel: (867) 920-8967
Fax: (867) 873-6109
Inuvik
Tel: (867) 777-7196
Fax: (867) 777-7321
South Slave
Tel: (867) 872-6430
Fax: (867) 872-4628
Sahtu
Tel: (867) 587-7171
Fax (867) 587-3018
Dehcho
Tel: (867) 695-7500
Fax: (867) 695-7501
With Micro Business – Contributions of up to $5,000 for
self-employment activities, aimed at traditional economy, arts,
film and similar self-employment activities.
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ARCAN stays loyal to northern roots
Duncan Cooke builds a strong case for building a better north
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for commercial, industrial and multifamily residential projects.
Arctic Canada Construction’s head
office is in Yellowknife, with regional
satellites in Hay River and Iqaluit plus
administration support in Okotoks,
Alberta. That’s an impressive step up
from Cooke’s one-man setup in a trailer
in 1995. Now he has a workforce of 30
managers and over 200 builders.
How does he do it? One of Arctic
Canada Construction’s primary objectives is to stay focused on its community
clients only in the Northwest Territories
and Nunavut. It doesn’t need to go chasing outside opportunities, and besides,
it’s got more than enough to do here.
“What we really pride ourselves on is
our long-standing relationship with the
communities in the North, the people
who we’ve worked with in the North
and providing a service to the North,” Cooke says. Having
lived in Cambridge Bay, Rankin Inlet, Hay River and now
Yellowknife, Cooke feels strongly about staying loyal to the
North’s communities.
One of the projects he is most proud of is the $54 million design-build project of Hay River’s Health Centre,
now nearing completion.
He wants to do what he can to make each community a
better place for Northerners. “We are very proud of every
project that we do. It’s instilling pride in what we do that
makes us successful,” he says.
It all began by answering an ad in the Globe & Mail, sending
Duncan Cooke north on a short 18-month contract to be a
project officer in the Canadian Arctic. Thirty years later he’s
still here, leading Arctic Canada Construction Ltd., better
known across both Nunavut and the NWT as Arcan.
After working with the NWT Housing corporation,
then as a partner of Sanagiit Construction in Rankin
Inlet for nine years, Cooke decided to move to Hay River.
He took the lessons learned at Sanagiit with him to start
Arcan (and a family) in 1995.
In the next five years, Cooke and business partner
Jon White developed Arcan from
“ We are very proud of every project that we do. It’s ina small regional contractor into a
territorial enterprise ready for bigstilling pride in what we do that makes us successful.”
ger projects. After the downshift in
It’s clear Cooke strives for a community feel for the
the economy in 2008, and with fewer competitors in the
business, as he has become captivated with the North’s
marketplace, Arcan merged in 2009 with Doycon Northcommunities himself.
ern Inc. of Yellowknife and created Arctic Canada Con“I would say meeting and working with the people in
struction Ltd.
the North is the most satisfying part of the job. When I
The newly-formed company’s first move was to get
started this business it was all about the adventure of travback into Nunavut, and this meant gaining an affiliate
elling throughout the Arctic and learning about a part of
company, Sanaqatiit Construction Ltd. Next, it estabCanada that I knew very little about.
lished its key shareholders: Cooke as president, Jon White
“Now it’s thirty years later and I still love getting on a
as VP of construction, Kimble Doyle (chief estimator) and
plane and going to small communities and meeting with
Daniel Adam (VP of design). This executive team has crepeople.” – by Katie Weaver CN
ated a collaborative expertise focussed on design/build
Qikiqtaaluk Corporation has emerged as a
corporate leader in Nunavut, and has grown as
an experienced partner in various fields, including
industrial developments:
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• Public-Private Partnerships
Project Development such
as the Qikiqtani General
Hospital
• Environmental and Waste
Management Services
through Qikqitaaluk
Logistics and Qikiqtaaluk
Environmental
• Real Estate and Property
Management Assessment
• Offshore Fisheries
• Construction Development
• Expediting and Camp
Services
• Petroleum Distribution
• Transportation Services
• Inuit Employment Agency
• Project Feasibility Studies
• Catering Services
• Retail Operations
• Information Technology
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ᕿᑭᖅᑖᓗᒃᒥ ᓱᓇᒃᑯᑖᖅᑎᑦᑎᔩ
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ᓲᕐᓗ ᕿᑭᖅᑕᓂ
ᐋᓐᓂᐊᕐᕕᓕᐊᖃᑕᐅᓯᒪᓪᓗᑎᒃ
ᐊᕙᑎᒥᐅᑕᓂᒃ ᓱᕈᔪᖕᓂᒡᓗ
ᐊᐅᓚᑦᓯᖃᑕᐅᓂᖅ ᕿᑭᖅᑖᓗᒃ
ᐱᓕᕆᔨᖏᑎᒍᑦ ᐊᒪᓗ ᕿᑭᒻᑖᓗᒃ
ᐊᕙᑎᒥᐅᑕᓕᕆᔨᒃᑯᑎᒍᓪᓗ
ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᐃᖅᑲᓇᐃᔭᖅᑐᒃᓴᐃᑦ
ᐱᓕᕆᐊᕆᔭᐅᓂᖏᓐᓄᑦ ᑎᒥᐅᔪᑦ
ᐱᓕᕆᐊᕆᔭᐅᓂᐊᖅᑐᒥᒃ
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ᐃᒡᓗᕐᔪᐊᓕᕆᓂᖅ ᓂᐅᕐᕈᑎᒃᓴᓂᒃ
ᐱᖁᑎᓂᒃ ᐊᐅᓚᑦᓯᔨᐅᓂᖅ
ᐃᒡᓗᒃᓴᓂᒃ
ᑕᕆᐅᒥ ᐃᖃᓗᓕᕆᓂᖅ
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ᐊᒡᔭᖅᑐᐃᖃᑦᑕᕐᓂᖅ ᓄᓇᓕᖕᓂ
ᐱᓕᕆᕕᐅᔪᓄᑦ
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ᐃᖏᕐᕋᑦᑕᖅᑐᓕᕆᓂᕐᒧᑦ
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capabilities in communities across Nunavut • Extended business
network and financial capacity • Northern logistics expertise •
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and proven capability • Cultural and marketing support • Qualified,
experienced and reliable industrial partnerships.
ᕿᑭᖅᑖᓗᖕᒥ ᑯᐊᐳᕇᓴᒃᑯᑦ ᐸᕐᓇᒃᐸᓪᓕᐊᕗᑦ
ᐱᖁᑎᕐᔪᐊᓕᐅᖃᑕᐅᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᐱᓕᕆᖃᑎᖃᕐᓗᑎᒃ ᓇᖕᒥᓂᖅ
ᐱᓕᕆᕕᖃᖅᑐᓂᒡᓗ ᐅᑯᓂᖓ ᐱᓕᕆᖃᑕᐅᓂᐊᕐᓗᑎᒃ:
ᕿᑭᖅᑖᓗᒃ ᑯᐊᐳᕇᓴᒃᑯᑦ ᓯᕗᓪᓕᖅᐸᐅᓕᖅᑎᑕᐅᓯᒪᕗᑦ
ᓄᓇᕗᒻᒥ ᐱᓕᕆᔨᐅᓂᕐᒧᑦ, ᖃᓄᑐᐃᓐᓇᕐᓗ
ᐃᓚᒋᔭᐅᖃᑕᐅᓕᖅᖢᑎᒃ ᐱᕈᖅᓯᒪᓪᓗᑎᒃ, ᐱᓕᕆᕕᖕᒥᓗ
ᐱᕙᓪᓕᐊᑎᑦᑎᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᐅᑯᐊ ᐃᓚᒋᔭᐅᓪᓗᑎᒃ:
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QC is positioning itself to be ready and have the
capacity to work on infrastructure and industrial
development with partnerships and joint ventures for:
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ᑐᓚᒃᑕᕐᕕᓕᐅᕐᓂᖅ • ᐃᖏᕐᕋᖃᑦᑕᖅᑐᓕᕆᓂᖅ ᐅᓯᖃᑦᑕᕐᓂᖅ
ᕿᑭᖅᑖᓗᖕᒥ ᑯᐊᐳᕇᓴᒃᑯᖏᑦ
ᐃᒪᓐᓇᐃᓕᐅᖃᑦᑕᖅᐳᑦ ᐊᑲᐅᓈᕈᑕᐅᔪᓂᒃ:
ᓄᓇᓕᖕᓂᒥᐅᑦ
ᐃᓄᐃᑦ
ᓴᓇᕙᓪᓕᐊᑎᑦᑎᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᐱᓕᕆᒍᓐᓇᖅᑐᑦ ᐊᔪ(ᙱ)ᑦᑐᑦ ᖃᐅᔨᒪᑦᓯᐊᖅᑐᓪᓗ
ᐃᓄᖕᓂᒃ ᐃᖅᑲᓇᐃᔭᖅᑎᑦᑎᔨᒃᓴᓂᒃ ᐃᓄᖕᓂᒃ ᐱᓕᕆᑎᑦᑎᖃᑦᑕᖅᖢᑎᒃ
ᐃᖅᑲᓇᐃᔭᖅᑎᑦᑎᖃᑦᑕᖅᖢᑎᒡᓗ ᓄᓇᓕᖕᓂ ᓄᓇᕗᒻᒥ ᐅᑭᐅᖅᑕᖅᑐᒥ
ᖃᐅᔨᒪᑦᓯᐊᖅᖢᑎᒃ ᐅᓯᖃᑦᑕᕐᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᐊᒡᔭᖅᑐᐃᓂᕐᒧᓪᓗ ᐱᓕᕆᕕᐅᔪᓄᑦ
ᓄᓇᓕᖕᓂ ᑳᓐᑐᕌᒃᑎᑦᑎᓂᕐᒥᒃ ᐃᑲᔪᕐᓂᕐᒥᒡᓗ ᖃᐅᔨᒪᓪᓗᑎᒃ
ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᖅᑎᑦᑎᖃᑦᑕᖅᖢᑎᒃ ᐃᓄᖕᓂᒃ ᐃᖅᑲᓇᐃᔭᕈᓐᓇᕐᓂᕐᒧᑦ,
ᐊᔪᙱᑦᓯᐊᖅᖢᑎᒡᓗ ᐱᓕᕆᒍᑎᖃᑦᓯᐊᖅᖢᑎᒡᓗ. ᐃᓕᖅᑯᓯᑐᖃᕐᓂᒃ
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Give your business the needed room to grow.
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The City of Yellowknife’s Engle Business District is the perfect
space for commercial or industrial businesses looking to establish
or expand their operations in Yellowknife.
From a small start
Purchase prices discounted until May 1, 2015
• 5% reduction for 1 lot
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• 15% reduction for 3 lots (adjacent properties, purchased at the same time)
Taloyoak’s Dennis Lyall grows 100-per-cent Inuit enterprise
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the community. That’s allowed Lyall
to focus less on the routine work and
more on managing the business alongside Kristine. His two sons, Patrick, 27,
and DJ, 24, also work for the company.
But that doesn’t mean he’s not
busy. Like many other Nunavut communities, Taloyoak has a long list of
badly needed infrastructure upgrades.
With tight budgets, the territorial
government and the Qulliq Energy
Corporation have both had to delay
projects for several years, much to the
chagrin of local residents. But now the
work is coming in waves.
Lyall Construction has a piece of
two major capital projects in the community: the construction of a longawaited new $30-million health centre
and the building of a new $10.8-million power plant. “Those are the big
ones,” Lyall says.
It’s shaping up to be a busy construction season in
Taloyoak’s location in the Central Arctic means it’s
Taloyoak. That’s good news for Lyall Construction and
pretty far removed from the mining and exploration
anyone in the Central Arctic hamlet – population 875 –
booms currently underway in the Kivalliq region and the
who’s qualified to drive heavy equipment.
western Kitikmeot. But Lyall says there’s a steady flow of
Lyall Construction got its start 25 years ago with local
local workers to and from the mines, which means, for
fuel deliveries and airport refuelling. The following year
him, a better trained workforce. “They’re more careful.
they bought some heavy equipment and started doing
They look after machines better. They get all that trainroad-building and earthmoving work. Since then, says
ing from the mines,” he says. “I don’t have to kick their
Dennis Lyall, who co-owns the company with his wife Krisasses as much.”
tine, they’ve branched out into construction, hauling water
There are still challenges, however. The cost of shipand sewage for the hamlet (which, like a lot of small Nunaping parts for major repairs can be astronomical. As for
vut towns, relies on trucked services), and ground services
when they actually arrive? That can be a crapshoot. “Maybe
for Canadian North. “That keeps us busy too,” Lyall says.
“That’s seven days a week.”
“It’s slow growth, but we’re okay with it. I knew a long time
Now boasting 31 employees, Lyall is happy to
ago I wasn’t going to get rich, so I thought I’d just keep at it.”
say his company is 100-per
it’ll take two weeks, maybe it’ll take a month, depending on
cent Inuit-owned, with a 100-per cent Inuit workforce.
space availability [on aircraft],” Lyall says. It’s a headache
Lyall started his career in 1969 when he was recruited
plenty of businesses in the North can understand.
by Panarctic Oil straight out of Yellowknife’s Sir John
Taloyoak may be small and remote but Lyall says he
Franklin High School as a heavy equipment mechanic.
doesn’t mind the stable return. “It’s slow growth, but
“When I first started, I was doing a lot of my own exwe’re okay with it,” he says. “I knew a long time ago I
cavating and hauling gravel,” he says. “Now I have my
wasn’t going to get rich, so I thought I’d just keep at it.”
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TRADING PLACES
APPRENTICES TOUT TRADES AS A GREAT WAY TO A DEBT-FREE CAREER WITH WORLDWIDE APPEAL
There’s a “trade” secret that’s slowly becoming public knowledge in the North – a career as a
tradesperson is one of the best available.
Excellent wages, lots of career opportunities,
high demand for journeymen, lifelong skills, pride
of achievement and variety of challenges are just
some of the positive feedback that apprentices and
journeymen give about life as a tradesperson.
Their checklist is backed up by solid statistics.
More Northerners are turning to a career in trades
– though the increase is gradual – in the face of negative stereotypes and the huge pressure to choose
university degrees or college diplomas instead.
Angela Littlefair is the manger of Apprenticeship, Trades and Occupation Certification for the
Government of the NWT’s Department of Education, Culture and Employment. She says that over
the past few years the NWT has maintained about
440 apprentices and certified between 60 and 100
journey persons each year.
Littlefair adds that the number of women entering the trades (mostly carpentry and electrical) in
the NWT is also rising slowly. About seven per cent
BILL BRADEN
Journeymen carpenters Breck Prescott and Chris Nolting
started their apprenticeships under contractor Neils Konge,
and are now partners with the Yellowknife contractor.
of NWT tradespersons are women, about a two per
cent increase over the last four years. In Nunavut in
2011 there were nine women in registered apprenticeships, whereas in 2007 there were none.
Across all three northern territories, the number of people registering as apprentices rose from
1,053 in 2007 to 1,191 in 2011, reports Statistics
Canada. Those completing their apprenticeships
rose from 96 in 2007 to 162 in 2011 – an increase of
more than 60 per cent.
The flow of people entering apprenticeships
and the graduation rate to journey persons in the
NWT is “fairly steady” says Littlefair. Those numbers
are not increasing faster – despite high demand for
certified tradespeople – because of the misconception that trades are dead-end jobs.
“Trades are anything but dead-end jobs, they
open the door to many other opportunities. And
an apprenticeship is an excellent way to learn a
trade, to earn money while you are learning, and
acquire excellent work-life experience – and within
four years you can be a certified journey person,”
she says.
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Celebrating 50 Years of NWT Apprenticeships!
After fifty years and more than 5,200 journey persons certified,
the NWT will be celebrating the success of its Apprenticeships Programs this year. The Department of Education, Culture and Employment is organizing a campaign to start in September and finish with
the annual Skilled Trades and Technology Week in early November.
“We will showcase successful journey people, partnerships
and the endless possibilities that apprenticeships provide,” says Angela Littlefair,
Manager of Apprenticeship, Trades and Occupation Certification.
Trades training in the NWT traces its roots back to the 1950s when community
adult education centres, and the newly-opened Sir John Franklin High School, offered
technical and vocational courses geared largely to the mining industry.
“THERE ARE A LOT OF DOORS THAT OPEN FOR YOU AND THE SKILLS THAT YOU LEARN AS AN
APPRENTICE ARE SKILLS THAT YOU HAVE FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE.”
ROBERT C. MACLEOD, JOURNEYMAN CARPENTER, AKLAVIK, 1992
PHOTO COURTESY ROBERT MCLEOD
“And once you’re a certified trades person, you can open up your
own business, become a consultant or go into construction management – it really can be a stepping stone to other careers if that’s
your wish.”
Certified journey persons, especially those with red seal certification, are very mobile and can take their skills across this country
and around the world.
“So why should someone consider a career in the trades? The
reasons that come immediately to mind are: respect, good pay, independence, earning money while they’re learning as an apprentice, no need for student loans or debt, and the federal government
offers incentive grants as well as completion grants,” she says, adding, “they’re trying to roll out loans for apprentices so that when
they do go for technical training, it’s not financially burdensome.”
Those sentiments are echoed by many of the apprentices and
journey persons who are working in the NWT and Nunavut today.
Breck Prescott and Chris Nolting are journeymen carpenters
who are now partners in Konge Construction in Yellowknife.
Breck is originally from Saskatoon and has worked as a carpenter
for eight years. Chris, born and raised in Yellowknife, has been
in the same trade for almost seven. Both have spent their entire
carpentry careers and apprenticeships with Konge Construction.
Prescott and Nolting both “started out green” and credit their
success to Konge Construction’s unfailing support for apprentices. Breck earned his journeyman ticket in four years while Chris
got his in three – including two months of classroom learning
each year along with on-the-job training.
“Basically Niels Konge pushed us through school because we
don’t get raises unless we go to school – so, our company has turned
out of lot of journeymen because of this policy,” says Prescott.
Nolting explained that he started working for Konge Construction during the summer between Grades 11 and 12. “This is the
only job I’ve had since high school. I had always wanted to be a
mechanic but then I came here to work for Niels and loved it and
have been here ever since.”
Prescott took a different career path: he first earned a university degree in theatre but found “it wasn’t a practical career choice
for me, and I wanted a job and wanted to get paid for it – but I
can’t sit at a desk.” He tried other jobs but aimed for a career with
more opportunities and future possibilities.
“Being a journeyman carpenter provides those opportunities.
We can pretty much work anywhere in the world with a Canadian
ticket. You could travel anywhere in this country with Habitat for
Humanity, you could go build homes in Africa,” says Prescott.
“Whether you’re a carpenter, plumber or electrician, there’s demand and work available all over the world for certified tradesmen.”
What do they enjoy most about their career? Both said they
enjoy the physical aspect of carpentry, the sense of accomplishment at the end of the day, the fact that they’re always learning on
the job, and the variety of the work.
“This job is different every day, you don’t do just one thing
– and you’re not staring at a computer every day,” says Nolting.
“One week you’re siding, the next week doing a roof and the next
week framing a house – with our company we do everything.”
“If someone is thinking about a career in the trades, I’d tell
them that you can’t go wrong,” says Prescott. Even if you do it for
a couple of years and decide it’s not for you, you’ve learned skills
that will stay with you the rest of your life, you’re making money
while you’re learning and you’re not in debt – no one can argue
with that being good.”
Chelsea Bradbury is one young Northerner who didn’t need
convincing about a career in the trades. The 22-year-old was born
and raised in Fort Smith and has long known that she would pursue a career through an apprenticeship.
“My family has always been in the trades and my step-dad owns a
construction company here,” she says. “When I was in high school
we took Trades Awareness at Aurora College and I just loved it.”
She tried a couple of other jobs while living in southern Canada. It was when she moved back to Fort Smith that an apprentice
electrician position came open with CAB Construction, her step-fa-
By 1968 a Heavy Equipment Operator course was offered at Fox Holes, just
west of Fort Smith. A year later it moved into the community and the Adult Vocational Training Centre (AVTC) was established. Its curriculum expanded through
the 1970s with support from Canada Manpower/CEIC (now Human Resources
and Social Development Canada). In 1981, AVTC was declared a college and
renamed Thebacha College, which today is part of the NWT-wide Aurora College
network.
It offers apprenticeship training at all levels of carpentry, two levels for electricians, two levels for heavy equipment technicians, two levels of plumbing, and all
three levels of housing maintainer, a trade unique to the NWT.
ther Craig Brown’s company, and she jumped at the opportunity.
“I definitely love working with my hands and the fact that I’m
not sitting down at a desk,” says Bradbury. “I also love that it’s quite
challenging mentally and that there’s something new to learn
every day – and there’s also lots of problem solving. My math is
getting way better!”
Although the trades are traditionally the domain of men, Chelsea says her career choice has received strong support from her
friends and family – and “definitely” respect from the community,
especially from other women impressed that she is pursuing a career in the trades.
Bradbury says earning her red seal certificate will enable her to
travel across the country and always find work – but says she has no
plans on leaving Fort Smith. “There are lots of amazing opportunities – and most of my family is here.”
While Chelsea is just beginning her career, 40-year-old Jimmy
Nattaq of Iqaluit, Nunavut, has worked as a carpenter for more
than 18 years and earned his interprovincial red s eal certificate
in 2004.
Nattaq, who works for Nunavut Construction Corporation
(NCC) Development, says he decided on the trades while he was
in high school because he enjoyed shop class.
The lifelong Iqalumiut says he enjoyed his apprenticeship in
Nunavut’s Capital City, learning “new tricks of the trade” and the
best and most efficient ways of getting the job done.
He said that becoming a journeyman opens doors to other opportunities – and as well as the opportunity to learn other trades if
that’s what interests a person. CONTINUED 
(L-R) BILL BRADEN; ED MARUYAMA; NNSL LTD
TRADES TRAINING can be
found in communities all
across the NWT and Nunavut.
From left: In Fort Providence
this spring, The Mine Training
Society and Aurora College
sponsored a Building Trades
Helper program. In Iqaluit,
Jimmy Nattuq upped his
game by earning his Red Seal
ticket as a carpenter after 18
years in the trade, and now
works for NCC Development.
And in Hay River, Chelsea
Bradbury has apprenticed
with her family’s company in
the electrical trade.
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However, Nataq says he personally has no
interest in leaving carpentry. “I like what I’m
doing. I enjoy making things and every day is
different at work.” He does mainly finishing
work for NCC and enjoys making custom furniture.
One of the best-known Northerners to
have earned his stripes as an apprentice is Robert C. McLeod, a journeyman carpenter who
has served as the member of the Legislative Assembly for Inuvik Twin Lakes since 2004. He
wears a slew of ministerial hats, heading up the
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That move stalled McLeod’s apprenticeship because there wasn’t a journeyman carpenter in Aklavik. However, he put in the
hours and earned his ticket along with his Interprovincial red seal from Lakeland College
in Vermillion, Alberta in 1989.
McLeod worked for Aklavik Housing for 22
years, the last nine years as the maintenance
supervisor, before returning to Inuvik as the
maintenance manager for the Inuvik Housing
Authority. About a year later, in 2004, he put
down his toolbelt and entered politics.
He pursued a career in carpentry because
he’s always been interested in building, and
the DPW apprentice job was a good opportunity for a young man with a young family.
“Getting into the trades is very worthwhile.
It provides good training, good pay and an opportunity to provide a good lifestyle for your
family,” says McLeod. “There are a lot of doors
that open for you and the skills that you learn
as an apprentice are skills that you have for the
rest of your life.”
“And they’re skills that I’m still using even
though I’m a Member of the Legislative Assembly. Two weeks ago I was working on my
in-laws’ house in Aklavik as well as on a couple of cabins,” says McLeod. “So it keeps me
busy but it’s relaxing for me to do this kind of
work.”
Two of McLeod’s political colleagues are
also tradespersons; Michael Miltenberger
(journeyman carpenter) of Fort Smith, and
former Premier Floyd Roland (journeyman
auto mechanic) now Mayor of Inuvik.
He says trades people make a very important contribution to Northern communities.
Not only are they qualified to complete the
work that a community requires, they can also
take on local apprentices.
“It creates a positive ripple effect. And
we’re now seeing communities that have journeymen who are actually from those communities and they are able to do a lot of the work
that goes on there.”
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MATTHEW HOUGH IN SUCH A WAY TO MAXIMIZE THE USE OF LOCAL FIRMS AND WORKERS”
CANADIANS WILL HAVE at least two reasons to celebrate on July
1, 2017: the 150th anniversary of the birth of our nation – and the
scheduled opening of the Canadian High Arctic Research Station
(CHARS) in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut.
CHARS will be a year-round, multi-disciplinary facility focusing
on innovative research into environmental and resource development issues, says the federal government. The station will promote
partnerships and collaboration among the Aboriginal, academic,
public and private sectors, domestically and internationally.
Construction of the world-class research station is scheduled to
begin this November with pile setting, says Matthew Hough, Engineering Manager with Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada.
Between 35 and 50 seasonal, part-time and full-time staff will be
employed to operate the station. Prime Minister Stephen Harper
announced its budget of $142.3 million in 2012 for construction,
fit-up and equipment, and that number holds today, says Hough.
It’ll be a major economic anchor for the Kitikmeot hub of about
1,400. It’s estimated that construction alone will bring about 150
jobs to Cambridge Bay and that about 70 new families will move to
the community once CHARS is operating.
On May 21, 2014, the federal government announced that
EllisDon Corporation, in a joint venture with NCC Dowland
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construction of CHARS.
Hough says the construction work has been divided into 40
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As the world’s polar region sees dramatic changes, scientists will have an ultra-modern research
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bids on the first 15 packages and those are in various stages of the
tender process.
Hough says the pre-qualification for those initial 15 packages
was done through the federal government’s MERX Canadian
Public Tenders (www.merx.com) and this practice is expected to
continue.
In addition to monitoring MERX, interested companies can
contact Public Works and Government Services Canada (www.
tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca) as well as the construction management joint
venture, says Hough.
Planning is the first challenge when undertaking such a large
project, says Hough. The government has been working with archi-
tects, engineers and a construction manager, in an advisory services
capacity, for a number of years to ensure that the design is at a stage
that will allow construction to begin this fall.
Hough says they are very conscious of the shipping schedule and
are organizing their work to synchronize with the arrival of the sealift in each of the next few years.
“We have had to ensure that the procurement of contractors
and labour was done in such a way to maximize the use of local firms
and workers, because it’s not just a matter of benefits,” says Hough.
“It’s also a matter of expediency, being able to utilize the resources
that are local so that we don’t have to mobilize as much into the
area.”
CHARS was designed by the Montreal architecture firms
FGMDA and NFOE. Hough says the architecture firms have met
with the community on a number of occasions and have taken
traditional knowledge into account when designing the research
station.
As a result there are specific features of the research station that
reflect Inuit culture, says Hough. One is an outdoors traditional
gathering area known as a qaggiq. Another feature is a “knowledge
sharing centre” that is part of a public space in the main research
building.
“And the colour of some of the cladding on the main research
building is a direct reference to the Copper Inuit. It’s a copper colour, it isn’t copper material, but again it’s to give a nod to the Copper Inuit. The diagonal pattern on the outside of the main research
building is an ascending spiral and that’s in reference to the proper
CHARS will be a major employer in
Cambridge Bay, needing up to 50 full
and part-time staff.
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design of an igloo, which is not straight up and down, the blocks of
an igloo actually spiral up. “
Hough says CHARS was designed with two things in mind: to be
flexible and serve the research community as a world-class station,
and to be integrated as much as possible into the community.
“The integration theme played through all of our design work.
The location of the CHARS campus is accessible by the community
by vehicle, of course, but also on foot, by snow machine and by
bicycle when the weather is friendly,” says Hough.
“That theme continued throughout the work and has manifested itself also in the design of a large portion of the main research
building which is a large public space. This space will be accessible
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CHARS HAS FIVE SHORT-TERM RESEARCH PRIORITIES FOR THE NEXT FIVE YEARS AND $46 MILLION
IN FUNDING FOR THE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM. DONALD MCLENNAN, CHARS
to the community and there will be of course a kitchen and cafeteria, there will be displays for the community to learn about the station and in time also about the work that is going on there. Even
some of the labs can be seen by people visiting the station.”
CHARS actually consists of four buildings: the main research
building, a field and maintenance building and two triplex residential buildings.
Hough says as part of the design they are using two sustainable
building rating systems: LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) and LABS21, the LEED equivalent for laboratories, short for Laboratories for the 21st century. They are targeting
LEED Gold Certification for the main research station and the field
and maintenance building.
The main research building is long and linear in shape, 4,855
square metres in size with two levels and a crawl space, says Hough.
When someone walks through the main entrance they’ll encounter the knowledge-sharing centre and public area, a kitchen,
and a multi-use area that will serve as a cafeteria by day but can be
converted for use for gatherings such as a conferences and features
a translation room. Hough adds that the windows off the multi-use
space and the cafeteria will provide excellent views of the ocean.
Other spaces on the main floor include meeting rooms, a large
animal necropsy lab, refrigerator/freezer rooms, mechanical and
electronics workshops, cold labs, clean labs, digital-imaging rooms
as well as an aquatics lab, says Hough.
The second floor will feature a general analytical lab, a large GIS
lab, a genomics lab, a multi-use lab, central stores as well as offices,
meeting spaces and mechanical spaces.
The field and maintenance building will play a critical role in
CHARS operations and will house the primary mechanical systems,
a large amount of storage space, a wood shop, a dive shop, a rock
processing lab and a maintenance garage.
The two triplex residents will be the first structures to be completed and will be used for medium-term stays by visiting scientists
and researchers and initially for CHARS staff, says Hough. “Over
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tial units but this will be our first housing under the CHARS banner.”
The CHARS buildings will initially be powered by electricity
from the Qulliq Energy grid in Cambridge Bay and heated by boilers using diesel fuel, says Hough. “In time, depending on the direction of the program, we do have the ability to produce power and
in the future it may be that we have an interest in feeding the grid,
not just to be a user or customer of Qulliq Energy but to actually
feed and contribute to the power needs of Cambridge Bay,” says
Hough.
As for the research to be conducted at CHARS, Donald McLennan, the head of monitoring science, says detailed information is
available online at www.science.gc.ca.
He summarized CHARS work by saying it will be research that is
useful for Northerners. To that end, they have been consulting with
a broad spectrum of Northern stakeholders since 2007 including
territorial governments, Aboriginal governments, communities, industry and academia.
McLennan says CHARS has five short-term research priorities
for the next five years and $46 million in funding for the Science
and Technology Program. Those priorities include: renewable
energy for the North, underwater studies, baseline information
for development, infrastructure
for development, and the nature
CHARS planners
of changes in the cryosphere – the
worked extensively
frozen world.
with residents to
McLennen explains that underdesign a station that
will become a valued
water research will employ small
part of community
submarines to collect marine data.
life. Beside the
Baseline information preparedmain centre is an
apartment block for
ness for development is a priority
visiting researchers
identified by both industry and
plus detached workgovernment regulators. “They
shops. Regular staff
will, over time, all be
have identified the need for better
housed around the
baseline information on Northern
community.
landscapes so we can understand
Illustration: Aboriginal
the potential impact and better
Affairs and Northern
plan for the increasing industrial
Development Canada
development … because of better
access created by the affects of climate change in the North,” says McLennan.
Infrastructure for development will look at issues faced by all
Northern communities such as buildings and sewage issues.
The final priority is the cryosphere and regions most directly impacted by a warming environment. “We’re really looking at predicting the impacts of our changing cryosphere on things like shipping,
on infrastructure and on the various impacts around communities.”
McLennan says that supporting CHARS five-year priorities are
“cross-cutting activities” such as monitoring, knowledge application, and technology development and transfer, and traditional
knowledge which are the foundational elements and that will allow
the science team to work with people across the North to achieve
their scientific goals.
So be sure to wave your flag with additional pride on July 1st, 2017
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FOR NUNAVUMMIUT CONTRACTORS AND WORKERS BY BILL BRADEN
Crews are surveying, driving piles and unloading dozens of containers
shipped in on last summer’s sealift as the much-anticipated Iqaluit Airport expansion gets underway this summer.
It’s the biggest-ever public construction project for Nunavut. And
for anyone who’s journeyed through today’s 28-year-old, chronically
overcrowded terminal, it’s long overdue.
But passengers will be asked to be patient for quite a while yet, as
planners have pegged a four-year horizon on completing the $300-million project.
Paul Mulak, with the Nunavut Government Department of Community & Government Services, describes the overall project as four
major improvements under one umbrella.
The dramatic new Airport Terminal Building, brilliant red with
sweeping roof lines, will host spacious check-in and security lounges,
retail areas and commissioned art, plus something that arriving passengers have dreamed of for years – a real luggage carousel.
A second new structure will be the Combined Services Building,
housing the airport’s emergency and runway maintenance fleet.
The third and fourth components will be on the “airside” of the
facility: a significant upgrade and expansion of the tarmac and parking
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aprons, plus repaving the 2,743-metre-long runway. The rest of the airside program will upgrade the runway’s electrical and lighting systems.
The tarmac, paving and electrical programs will themselves take
up over half the estimated budget, after the last upgrade more than 20
years ago. Plans call for keeping the existing yellow-clad terminal for
administration.
DEAL SPELLS OUT NUNAVUT INVOLVEMENT
The Nunavut Government has negotiated an innovative P-3 (publicprivate partnership) deal to plan, finance and build the airport, then
operate it for 30 years with the government taking over by 2047.
A group of four seasoned companies created an alliance called the
Arctic Infrastructure Partners (AIP) to win an extensive bidding process.
The international banking investment firm InfraRed Capital Partners
Ltd. will source some $240 million to finance the build. Another $77
million has already been committed from the federal government’s
infrastructure investment fund.
The designer/builder will be Bouygues Building Canada Inc., the
Canadian arm of a French multinational with an extensive roster of
major projects around the world. Another subsidiary, Colas Canada
Inc., will look after the tarmac and runway work, while actually operating the new airport will be assumed by the Winnipeg Airports Authority.
With ground prep work underway by mid-June of 2014, Nunavut
businesses have been eyeing the project with anticipation, said Chris
West, executive director of the Baffin Regional Chamber of Commerce.
“The way it’s looking now, there’ll be a tangible share of the business
coming local.”
Maximizing opportunities for local business and labour is a key component of any major project these days. The YFB deal is no exception,
as the AIP group is obliged to meet targets for including local and Inuit
workers and Nunavut-based businesses in their project.
Because there are contracted targets (with penalties for non-compliance), the project is exempted from the Nunavummi Nangminiqaqtunik Ikajuuti (NNI) policy. This policy gives Nunavut- and Inuit-owned
businesses a financial advantage in bidding for government work. The
government has been encouraging Nunavut businesses to submit expressions of interest to the AIP group.
The contract has fixed targets for Inuit employment that will increase over time, starting at 15 per cent and ramping up to 60 per
cent by the end of the contract. In the meantime, the project will also
include training, apprenticeship programs and the chance to gain
various industrial qualifications. CN
Iqaluit’s airport has wartime history
Iqaluit owes its very beginning to air transport. In 1942, the Allies needed
a far north staging airstrip for the war campaign in Europe. The Americans chose Frobisher Bay to build the Crystal Two airbase, but it never
counted for much wartime support – a mere 323 lights touched down
there in 1943.
Canada bought the asset soon after the war for $6.8 million, continuing its military role through the Cold War era and in today’s North
Warning System. The town of Frobisher Bay grew around its fringe as it
became the regional air hub for the Eastern Arctic.
The original air terminal building now serves a cargo depot, while
today’s iconic yellow-clad terminal was opened in 1986 when the town
was only 3,000 people served by just one south-bound flight a day.
That changed when the new territory of Nunavut was proclaimed in
1999, and Iqaluit named its capital.
Fostered by new government, mining and tourism demand,
140,000 passengers a year now jostle for space among 20,000 takeoffs and landings. By 2030, the City of Iqaluit forecasts its population
could almost double (to 13,000) and with added traffic from emerging
new mines in the region, even the bigger, better Iqaluit airport will be a
very busy place.
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BUILDING
THE
MODERN
MINE
CAMP
MARY RIVER,
BAFFINLAND
Dwarfed by the
awe-inspiring vistas
of north Baffin
Island, Baffinland
Iron Mines’ Milne
Port camp was
designed for quick
on-site assembly,
prefabbed in
western Canada
and shipped by
ocean freighter
from Quebec. It was
assembled during
the fall and winter
of 2013/14.
Photo courtesy
Baffinland Iron Mines.
BY BILL BRADEN
MINES BUILD NEW CAMPS
TO KEEP WORKERS COMING BACK
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“COMMUNICATION WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS WAS VERY IMPORTANT, AND WE WANTED TO MAKE IT READILY AVAILABLE,SAYS HAMPTON. “IT’S VERY MUCH APPRECIATED BY THE WORKERS.” RON HAMPTON, BAFFINLAND
LEFT: DE BEERS, CANADA CENTER: GEORGE HUNTER/NEWT MINING HERITAGE SOCIETY: ANGELA GZOWSKI/UPHERE
LEFT: The spacious dining hall at De Beers’ Snap Lake diamond mine is a modern day leap from the intimate quarters endured by these stalwarts at the Taurcanis
gold mine near Yellowknife in 1957 (centre). RIGHT: Modern mine camps build in the space and relaxation that help attract workers – and keep them coming back.
MINING HAS LONG BEEN A MAINSTAY of the construction industry in Canada, and its impact is magnified here in the North. With
new projects typically budgeted in the hundreds of millions of dollars, and companies wanting to hire and contract locally, northern
builders can look to mining as a major growth engine for the future.
As mining momentum picks up across both territories, a number
of deposits are on the arduous journey through feasibility, permitting and financing. A select few (Gahcho Kue - diamonds; Nico gold-cobalt; Prairie Creek - lead-zinc; Nechelacho - rare earths; Baffinland - iron; Meliadine - gold), are advancing planning to bring
their finds into production.
It’s a daunting challenge.
They grapple with a complex array of planning and logistics,
designing and equipping the mine works, transportation and communications systems, power plants and fuel handling, waste and environmental management, all on self-contained and isolated sites.
Among all these components, every project has one vital thing in
common: the camp.
Building the modern mine camp has evolved by leaps and
bounds since the North’s first mines sprouted up from the rocky Canadian Shield. Gone are the days of the classic “bunkhouse” where
men were brought in for months at a time, crammed into tight,
noisy quarters, sharing rooms, showers and toilets and rubbing elbows with each other at crowded mess-hall tables.
Gone too is the philosophy that building a remote mine also
meant building a real, honest to goodness community where workers could raise families in their own homes, enjoying schools, stores,
streets and hockey arenas like anywhere else in Canada. The abandoned town sites of Nanisivik, Pine Point and Echo Bay, all now
razed to the ground, bear witness to the new age of highly mobile
and demanding fly-in, fly-out workers.
What goes into creating the modern camp today? It has to have
the needs of these workers front and centre, says Ron Hampton, vice
president and project director for Baffinland Iron Mines.
“Our first considerations are, will it keep them comfortable? Is it a
place they will want to return to?” asks Hampton. “Realizing that we
can’t do anything about our location or the climate or the nature of
the work, that’s our thinking before we even start to design the camp.”
“We can impact their comfort, communications and recreation,
their ability to get together for group activities, and also to be apart
and have privacy. For most workers, that privacy is paramount,” says
Hampton.
Hampton, an exploration geologist with an MBA , helped build
the Diavik and Voisey’s Bay mines and has 25 years of mining experience. He says it’s too much of a stretch to claim they can create a
‘home’ environment. But for the men and women far from their
real homes, working 12 hour shifts for 14 days straight, they need to
come darn close.
It’s not just about making workers happy and cozy. There’s a bottom-line business reason: Workers who like where they live, eat and
sleep will probably come back.
“Our permanent facilities are all single room and private bathrooms. That is a decision the company made for retention purposes,” he says. “We looked around at the competition (other remote mines) and we wanted to make sure we had equivalent if not
superior accommodations.”
On the 2013 sealift and over the winter Baffinland shipped in and
installed two complete camps, one at its Mary River mine site of 210
rooms and another 120 units at the Milne Inlet port. Both single-storey
camps have full kitchens and recreation areas, wireless computer and
satellite TV and telephone in each room.
“Communication with family and friends was very important,
and we wanted to make it readily available,” says Hampton. “It’s very
much appreciated by the workers.”
The 330 units were all prefab-built by Horizon North, of Kamloops, B.C., which provided a supply-and-install contract. The units
were trucked to the sealift port at Valleyfield, Quebec.
To enable rapid set-up on the remote site, 1,000 kilometres
north of Iqaluit, the units needed to be road-transportable, hoisted
by moderate-sized cranes, and as fully equipped at the factory as possible including plumbing, electrical, flooring and windows. They’re
designed for a 20-year lifespan.
One unique aspect at Baffinland is the special space they’ve created for the Inuit workforce.
“There was strong request from them to have a facility to prepare
country food. We set aside a specific area with coolers, food preparation space, for them to prepare their own foods ... we’ve gone out
of our way to make sure all our workers are accommodated,” says
Hampton.
Inuktitut signage is posted in accommodation and some work
areas as well. This all fits in with Baffinland’s business values: attracting and keeping local workers means spending less to bring in workers from far-flung corners of Canada.
The cost? Per bed, with all the infrastructure such as power, sewage and water at this remote location, it’s in the order of $150,000
to $200,000. That’s about the same as at a full-service hotel development in a big city, with all its fancy amenities.
Where are the opportunities for northern builders in the modern mining camp?
“The obvious one is installation once they do get to site,” says
Hampton, as the carpentry, plumbing and electrical work is similar
to home building anywhere.
“It may be a good idea to look for setting up a joint venture with
the fabricator company in the south, to do the installation in the site.
In my mind, that is where the real opportunity is.”
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“ THEY WILL CHANGE COMPANIES JUST BECAUSE YOU DON’T HAVE A GOOD PRIVATE ROOM ... SALARY WON’T MAKE A HUGE DIFFERENCE.”
There is also potential in constructing the
one-of-a-kind stick-built structures for utilities
or other specialty purposes.
The biggest challenges for guys like Hampton?
“It’s logistics, moving equipment to site.
We’re lucky that we have ocean access, although it’s only about 10 weeks of the year.
Everything has to be shipped, and a high level
of planning goes into this to make sure everything shows up on time -- and that it actually
shows up.”
The headache is when something is forgotten or late, and has to be flown in or wait
another year to get there. It’s not unlike the
issues faced by diamond mines in the NWT,
served by a winter road that’s only open for
about 10 weeks a year.
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NEIS and NSSI, both Inuit-owned shipping
companies, marshalled all the supply for 2013
in nine freighters and three additional fuel
tankers. Baffinland expects to actually start
mining this summer and ship its first iron ore
cargo to European smelters in the fall of 2015.
A Climate For Growth
MELIADINE IN PLANNING STAGES
Nunavut’s next likely new mine is Agnico Eagle’s Meliadine gold prospect, 25 kilometres
from the Kivalliq hub of Rankin Inlet. It’s in
the final feasibility study stage, with a decision
by the company expected early next year.
Meliadine would be a twin to Agnico Eagle’s Meadowbank gold mine, 100 kilometres
north of Baker Lake, which poured its first gold
in 2010. And, says Alain Hamel, the general service manager for Agnico, they’ve learned lots
about what makes a successful camp.
“At the end of the day, it will be an issue for
workers if they don’t have a good quality of
life. They will change companies just because
you don’t have a good private room, good
food and good transportation. Salary won’t
make a huge difference.”
Echoing Ron Hampton’s approach at Baffinland, Hamel stresses the importance of privacy for each worker.
“What the worker is expecting is to have
their private space. We’re in the 2000s now,
and the workers expect a private bathroom
and well insulated sound proofing.” (Meadowbank now has shared bathrooms.)
Hamel says they are looking at preplanning now for Meliadine’s camp, and would
follow the conventional approach of prefabbing in the south for quick assembly on site.
“Building something up north [from
scratch] is very, very high cost,” he says, adding that the short shipping season and long
dark winters add to the tough, tight logistics
of getting a camp up and running.
“We’re really open for every northern
company,” he says about bringing the North’s
businesses into the project. “We’ll take the
best price for the quality we need. We’re open
to every company that has the skill.”
Hamel points out that with Rankin Inlet
only 25 kilometres away via a newly-built allweather road, the company anticipates it can
partner with the community on joint use of
existing infrastructure like the airport and
recreation facilities.
“If we had the opportunity to help the
community, this would help us as well,” he
says. CN
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important to economic development as physical infrastructure.
The construction of a fibre optic link along the Mackenzie Valley is a strong case in point.
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sensing - not only in North America, but the world. This will increase opportunities for
employment and value-added data processing facilities; and position the Aurora Research
Center as one of the world’s foremost facilities in which to conduct space-based Arctic
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Real-time digital access will also expand and improve our Government’s health
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future projects
Home construction, both private and public, continues to be a mainstay for northern builders, like this project in Ndilo, NWT. Power plant replacement in three Nunavut communities, a five-year, $300
million renewal of the NWT’s Stanton Territorial Hospital, and a much anticipated Aquatic Centre in Iqaluit, are among the major public investments underway over the coming season.
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NEW
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FACILITIES
LEAD
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AGENDA
Both territories investing heavily in key infrastructure
NWT HOUSING FOCUS ON SENIORS,
PUBLIC HOUSING OVER THREE YEARS
Investment in independent living space for seniors and in
new and existing public housing stock will highlight spending by the NWT Housing Corporation over the next three
years, says President David Stewart.
As demographics tell us, all of Canada is seeing a surge
in the number of seniors - a trend that will continue for at
least the next 15 years. NWT’s seniors are among the territory’s fasting growing age group.
Over the next two years the NWTHC is building four
new independent living facilities for seniors and also replacing the Joe Greenland Center in Aklavik. The four new
homes will be in Fort McPherson, Fort Good Hope, Fort
Liard and Whati.
On the public housing side, the corporation will complete nearly 600 retrofit projects over the next three years.
It will also replace older units, including the Sydney Apartment building in Inuvik during 2014-15. Stewart also reports that approximately 300 homeowners are assisted annually with major repairs, and preventative and emergency
projects.
The corporation has a diverse agenda of providing
housing and living supports in the NWT. It carries almost
4,600 units in all communities, with some 2,400 dedicated
to public housing.
QULLIQ POWERS UP FOR THREE NEW PLANTS, HYDRO VISION
Nunavut’s government-owned Qulliq Energy Corporation
has a long-term vision of building hydro power at two sites
southwest of the fast-growing capital city of Iqaluit. They’re at least
a few years from start-up, as it works on engineering and permitting
for the first, the Jaynes Inlet plant rated at up to 14.6 megawatts, with
a potential completion by 2019. Building the plants, and up to 90
kilometres of transmission line, has been pegged at $450 million.
In the meantime, Iqaluit and every other Nunavut community is
powered by diesel plants requiring regular upfits. Over the coming
year, gensets will be replaced in Clyde River, Arviat and Grise Fiord.
Larger projects will see the entire power plants replaced in Qikiqtarjuaq, Taloyoak and Grise Fiord. The corporation advises
that contracts for some portions of these builds have been awarded
while others are yet to be tendered.
IQALUIT IN THE SWIM
Crews with Canadrill Ltd. started sinking piles in April of 2014 for
the city of Iqaluit’s new Aquatic Centre, a long-anticipated replacement for the well-used, and now closed, pool in the Brown Building complex.
It will be the city’s largest-yet project. Costed at $30 million, it
will include a six-lane, 25-metre pool, a leisure pool with spiral water
slide, a whirlpool, saunas and a fitness centre. A local fundraising
campaign has a goal of $3 million, with the ratepayers having already approved borrowing the balance.
The entire structure will be suspended on some 305 piles, with
the pool actually on the second level (above the fitness centre) to
isolate it from the permafrost. A district heating system serving the
centre and other larger nearby buildings has been discussed.
Stantec Consulting is leading the design team, but a builder has
yet to be decided. Located in the heart of the city, it will open, no
doubt with a big splash, by April 2016.
NUNAVUT MEDIA ARTS CENTRE STARTS HIGH-TECH BUILD IN IQALUIT
After 20 years in a 1950s-vintage recycled military barracks, the
Inuit Broadcasting Corporation and other independent media
will be moving into a new, state of the art production studio in
early 2015.
Three Inuit-owned firms – Qikiqtaaluk Corporation, NCC Properties Limited and Atuqtuarvik Corporation – have formed a new
company, Sanavallianiq Limited, to finance, build and manage the
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Its 800 square metres will host production studios capable of live broadcast, film
archives and performance space with audience seating. Project manager Catherine
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The long-deferred project will transform Stanton, which opened in 1988 in a
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The new Stanton will almost in double
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stays, adding emergency capacity and new
infrastructure such a pellet boiler. The
number of actual beds (all will be in private
rooms) is expected to increase only slightly
to perhaps 100.
Budgeted at $300 million, it eclipses
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as the territory’s largest-yet public infrastructure project. Stanton serves both the
NWT and Kitikmeot region of Nunavut.
Planners have already completed the
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project this spring with the first step in procurement – the request for qualifications,
to be followed by a request for detailed
design development proposals this fall.
The builder will be chosen early next year
with an actual project start in 2015-16.
The Stanton renewal website (stantonrenewal.ca) says Northern companies with
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BACK TO SCHOOL
FOR
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Big uptake in training and COR sign-ups
The Northern Safety Association is leading the charge as
it grows its role as the one-stop shop for safety training and
facilitation across the NWT and Nunavut.
“From where we were a year ago and where we are now,
things are completely different,” says Chris Johnston, executive director since the NSA started in 2006.
Sarah Johnson, NSA’s communications and education
coordinator, says participant volumes doubled in the past
two years and continue to spike. “We’re showing similar
numbers for the first quarter of 2014 as in all of 2013,” she
says.
Their list of in-class training programs has quadrupled
in the year, to 39, ranging from how to handle asbestos to
LEFT: Mike Suchlandt
leads a safety course at
RTL/Westcan. He was
a catalyst for bringing
the COR program into
the NWT. RIGHT: Sarah
Johnson and Chris
Johnston coordinate
the Northern Safety
Association’s delivery of
safety program across
NWT and Nunavut
fall protection, delivered as far west as Tuktoyaktuk and as
far east as Igloolik.
E-learning has “exploded” among northern employers
combing through more than 3,000 on-line programs. It’s
even being offered in territorial jails, and as high-speed internet becomes more widely available, will be an economical and instant way of learning.
The key to the association’s growth has been the anchor
funding and support from the Workers Safety and Compensation Commission of NWT and Nunavut. And as the
WSCC has withdrawn from delivering subsidized training,
companies are paying, at cost, the full share of the training,
says Johnston.
“There are 3,800 active WSCC businesses out there,”
Johnston points out,” which means they’re all members of
this association.”
The NSA’s programming is backstopped by partnerships with the Alberta Construction Safety Association and
the Canadian Federation of Safety Associations. Combined,
they offer a vast array of program options and trainers.
NORTH BOASTS 80 CORTM DESIGNATIONS
The flagship safety program is COR – the Certificate of Recognition – a nationwide designation that certifies a company has invested in a rigorous process of safety planning,
training and monitoring. Check out the NSA’s website and
the logos of 80 NWT and Nunavut companies show up. Not
bad from zero just eight years ago, says Johnston.
WSCC does subsidize the delivery of COR’s basic elements program, offered on a monthly basis when and
where at least 10 participants sign up.
One of the COR program’s
northern champions is Mike
Suchlandt of RTL/Westcan Enterprises.
Suchlandt, their Safety Manager since 1988, was instrumental in bringing COR north. As
early as 1995, he was working
with the then Workers’ Compensation Board chief safety
officer, John Findlay, to make
it happen. It finally joined the
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COR network in 2009. Northwestel, followed by RTL, were the first companies to earn
accreditation in the NWT.
Suchlandt, whose office is draped with certificates from
more than 50 courses he’s taken, is an ardent advocate of
why safety and COR should be at the core of every business.
“When we have a worker coming in here in the morning, we want them to go home healthy at the end of the
shift. There’s nothing so important that we have to hurt
people,” he says.
His role as a certified COR auditor, and safety auditor, is
a critical part of getting and keeping the certification. He’ll
make a thorough investigation of a company’s policies and
practices, their training agenda, and look for the ways that
they’re growing a culture of safety awareness.
Auditors like Suchlandt are themselves industry safety
managers. Not much gets past them and the companies
they test take their scrutiny very seriously. “It’s all about
peer respect,” he says. CONTINUED 
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Committing to COR is no small investment.
It requires detailed attention to building a
current health and safety manual, putting
it into practice, delivering the training,
monitoring performance and complying
to maintain the designation.
Along with making a safer workforce,
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MARIA CHURCH
work as long as it takes to get the job
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His promotion has been the same
in every territory and province he’s
brought his business: Word of mouth.
“So far that’s all I’ve had to do,” says
Hann. “I’ve only just now started to
put a sign on my truck.”
When you call Corwin’s Painting
and More to your home – maybe for
a bathroom tiling job, which Hann
says is his biggest draw – it’s usually
both Hann and his spouse Debbie that
show up. The two have been together
for about 15 years and have been a
handy team in both their personal and
professional lives.
As a hobby, the couple has been
flipping houses since they lived in Iqaluit. In their time there, they lived in
two houses, fixed them up and then
sold them, and have kept up the practice. “Usually we
don’t really go into it diehard and say, ‘Oh, we need to
get this done in six months.’ We’ll take a year or two years
and flip it, ‘cause we enjoy the houses that we do buy,”
says Hann, “and we like the areas and stuff – that’s why we
buy them – so we like to kind of enjoy them a bit before
we sell them.”
He says they’re considering staying in the house
they’ve got in Fort Smith. They’re happy there and their
business has seen a lot of success in the community.
“I haven’t really looked at going anywhere else because there’s enough work [in Fort Smith] all the time,”
Corwin Hann was working as a painter and handyman
for the Nunavut Construction Company in Iqaluit in
2005 when someone told him he’d probably make more
money as a contractor. “So that’s how I started,” says
Hann, and it’s proved true. Since then his business has
taken him on jobs as far south as Abbotsford, B.C., but
he’s stayed rooted in the North.
He started Northern Lights Painting and his business quickly expanded to encompass any other household jobs that needed doing. When he moved down to
Dawson Creek, B.C. in 2007 he changed the name to
Corwin’s Painting and More. “We provide painting, plastering, carpentry services, tiling –
“ I find it a lot friendlier [in the North], to tell you the truth
handyman service, basically.” He
ended up primarily working on
and in a smaller community it’s easy for you to get work.”
modular homes, which would
says Hann. Athough Fort Smith is his home base, he’s
arrive in the community in two halves – he’d plaster and
not putting any limits on where jobs can take him. This
paint the inside so the buyer couldn’t tell.
spring, he was getting texts for work in Fort Smith while
The name stuck when the North called once again
working on another job back down in Dawson Creek. He
and he settled in Fort Smith in 2009. “I find it a lot friendtook a job in Abbotsford, B.C., a while ago when the guy
lier [in the North], to tell you the truth,” says Hann, “and
he bought his travel-trailer from said he couldn’t find
in a smaller community it’s easy for you to get work, you
someone there to lay some hardwood flooring.
know.” Between jobs he gets in B.C. and farther north in
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He named his enterprise KRT after
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he takes great pride in his daughter, Kimberly, who signed with her dad’s firm as
an apprentice. She joins four others apprentices, all Inuit, at KRT.
Smith has a lot to say about the state
of the trades in Nunavut. Recruiting a
qualified workforce is his biggest challenge – and it all comes down to the pay.
“It used to be that years ago, you’d
come up north to make money. But
now, the bucks are in the south. The oil
and gas plants are really sucking up the
tradespeople. We can’t afford the benefits or the dollars.
“I see in the next few years it will affect
a lot of the projects up here. The wages
will have to really go up, and the health
plans and pensions, just to compete with
what’s happening in Alberta and other
places,” he warns.
After almost 23 years in business, the founder of Nunavut’s
He’s promoted, without much success he says, the role
well-known KRT Electric Ltd. has only one wish. “I wish I
schools should be taking to introduce northern students to
was 30 years younger, for the potential that’s going to be
trades as a smart career choice.
happening here in Nunavut,”a says 58-year-old Rick Smith,
“I don’t find the government pushing or advising people
whose company has been wiring up Nunavut since 1989.
to go into the trades so much. You’ve got to have your grade
The soft-spoken Newfoundlander has no plans of turn11 or 12 math, and I find that lots of these kids are not being
ing off the switch just yet, as he marshals a workforce of 30
directed into the trades ... I’ve been preaching that for over
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70. They handle a broad spectrum of electrical service rangSmith says the market for contractors has changed from
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driver. “One of the nice things now is that in the last numelevator inspections.
From a family of eight on the
“ I wish I was 30 years younger, for the potential that’s
Burin Peninsula, Smith was the only
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going to be happening here in Nunavut.”
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of 17 and earned his journeyman certificate at 21.
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His first taste of the Arctic was at the now-shut Lupin
“I think if I had to start a business now, it would be a lot
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harder than in the earlier years,” Smith says, urging would1980s. He made his way east in 1985 to Iqaluit for the terbe entrepreneurs to take some business schooling before
ritorial government and started listening to local builders.
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“At the time, there was lack of electrical trades and a
As KRT nears its 25-year mark, he’s got a lot to be proud
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one here they could depend on,” says Smith. “They gave
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“Duncan Cooke of Arcan Construction is the guy who got me started in apprenticeship and I’ll always appreciate
it. It got me a bright future,” says Curley.
He also credits Jerry Chislet of Qagvit Enterprises and Joe Alexander of Kivalliq
Property Maintenance as mentors and
inspirations in the trade.
Curley signed on with the Rankin
Inlet Housing Authority from 2001 to
2008 before tiring of the paperwork and
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While his main trade is maintenance
and renovations, he’s branched out into
small-scale additions and garages for
private and commercial clients. His biggest project yet is sub-contracting on a
10-plex for the Nunavut Housing Corp.
Curley has strategically avoided going
after the bigger, demanding contracts in
the region’s booming mining economy.
Careful not overextend his team, he wants to grow his business steadily, locally and with quality top-of-mind.
“We try and take a lot of pride in our work, it’s our drive
to be above the other companies in our quality. I want to be
the company that people will automatically look to.”
To cope with Nunavut’s chronic skilled-labour crunch,
he fosters a culture of respect within his workforce as the
best way of keeping them on his payroll.
“The trouble is finding workers who are loyal and will
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you’ll get more out of them.”
With five years of growth behind him, Curley projects
When Sebastian Curley started his Rankin Inlet construction business in 2008, he had a crystal clear vision: start
small, build quality, stay local. He’s stuck to those values and
it’s paying off.
“We’re finally getting to the point where we’re financially viable, and it’ll be good from there,” says the 43-yearold Red Seal carpenter. “We’ve built our infrastructure up
and now we can concentrate on work.”
With the help of his wife, Elsa Tatty, a start-up grant from
the Nunavut government, and the journeyman’s ticket he
earned in 1998, Curley built a small shop, bought tools, and
got started as Curley Construction Corp. Today he counts a
fulltime payroll of six and doubles that in the hectic summer
season. The next growth phase will be a proper shop facility
on an industrial lot.
“ We try and take a lot of pride in our work, it’s our drive
“We’re all local, 100 per cent
locally owned and operated, we
to be above the other companies in our quality.”
pride ourselves on that,” he says.
the next five will see him reaching into the region’s commuBorn in Edmonton in 1971, Curley was raised in the
nities, building on his strength as a home-grown business.
Netherlands by his mother (his father is the Kivalliq Inuit
That, and bringing a manager on stream to help shoulder
leader, Tagak Curley). But after completing high school
the load of constant decision-making and planning.
overseas, with few prospects for non-Europeans, he came
Like many entrepreneurs, the word “vacation” is rarely
back to his roots in the Arctic.
used. And that’s another goal for Sebastian, Elsa and their
A big barrier was that his Dutch high school diploma
family of four: “A weekend of fishing or hunting doesn’t
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WALLS OFFAME
BY BILL BRADEN
TINY
HOUSING
THE NEXT
BIG THING?
IS IT A CABIN? A SHACK?
A REALLY CUTE DOLLHOUSE? NO! IT’S A HOME.
There’s a quiet yet undeniable change happening out there in the North American housing
market. It’s called the Tiny House Movement,
and it’s slowly making its way north.
THM is no trendy fad. Its believers speak
with a zeal that should make all die-hard suburbanites sit back in their overstuffed recliners
and think. It’s fostered by a younger generation
seeking a simpler, freer lifestyle that won’t burden them with lifelong mortgage debt, piles of
useless stuff or environmental guilt.
“Who says a home has to be 3,000 square
feet?” challenges tiny house entrepreneur
Chris Merklinger. “We’ve been manipulated to
believe that big is a sign of success.”
So how tiny is tiny? Try 108 square feet.
That’s all the basics in an area a little bigger
than three sheets of plywood, or two kingsized beds.
Merklinger showed up in Yellowknife in the
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Amish-built, 16-foot-long, uber-modern tiny
house that he advertised on-line and sold within
two weeks. Asking price: $27,500.
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GETTING COZY: Don’t be fooled by the
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to use, modern systems (top left, middle). Chris
Merklinger (top right) and Les Rocher (middle right)
have contrasting business ideas about tiny houses
(bottom right) but the basic idea is the same: a small
footprint, freedom and low costs.
That handsome model, the Litljoe (his
company is called Litl Hausen), might look like
a really spiffy playhouse, but it’s no toy. Merklinger and his dog spent all last winter on Ontario’s Bruce Peninsula, test-living it off-grid in
-30C storms that isolated him for two weeks.
That’s given him the confidence to try a northern market like Yellowknife (someone else had
already set up shop in Whitehorse).
“I’ve lived it. I’ll never go back to conformity,” says the slight, intense 57-year-old, a recovering alcoholic now 13 years sober. He still
wrestles with personal trauma, but found new
purpose in seeking answers for housing issues
– especially in remote regions and on reserves.
At a downtown coffeeshop, he leafs
through an inch-thick business plan, detailing Litl Huasen’s responsibly-sourced materials, hand-built craftsmanship, top-quality gas,
electrical, water and waste systems, and Arcticgrade windows and insulation. He takes commissions for models from 108 to 160 square
feet, has them built to spec in Keady, Ontario
and trucks them north, a $4,000 expense he’s
looking to reduce.
URBAN LIFESTYLE OUTSIDE THE ORDINARY
Yellowknife architect Wayne Guy notes most
housing innovations sprang decades ago from
overcrowded, expensive city cores with maxedout infrastructure. He’s not surprised that the
THM has taken on a new caché, as it reflects
new societal values and enables young people
to rent or own something that’s affordable and
gives them independence and freedom.
And, it can provide existing homeowners
with empty space on their property a chance to
make some extra rent money. That’s because
Yellowknife (and a slowly growing number of
other communities) has recently revised zoning and permitting bylaws to allow a second
detached “residence” on what was otherwise
limited to a self-contained suite under the
same roof.
There are still rules: setbacks, parking, appearance and codes still have to be met, and
development and building permits cleared.
As well, getting insurance is a largely untested area. But the city of Yellowknife is definitely ahead of the curve in allowing this, says
Guy.
“It was very good of the city to relax the bylaws,” he says, adding that densification and
diversity makes for smart city planning anywhere.
Guy, who did his thesis in Arctic housing,
looks at the daunting challenge facing Nunavut communities. With large young populations, the idea of smaller, more affordable unconventional homes has a natural appeal.
“Arviat has over 1,000 kids under 18...
imagine these kids in five years starting to
enter the adult world and needing housing?
It’s unimaginable. That’s 500 houses for Arviat
and they’re already 400 behind.”
A TINY-HOUSE BUSINESS CASE
Yellowknife’s colorful and
sometimes controversial developer, Les Rocher, is better
known for building cookie-cutter mobile home subdivisions
than for creativity.
But even Rocher – quite the opposite of a
Renaissance man – recently ventured into the
THM with a cluster of a dozen brightly finished
cabins in the city’s eclectic Old Town. Not because it’s trendy, or easy to do, or even profitable, but because it made sense for what he
needed – places for his own work crews to live.
“The idea of small has always been here,
that’s how this place got started,” he says of the
gold rush of the 1930s. Answering non-stop cellphone calls as he drives around twisty Old Town
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“That’s where we lived for a while,” he says, of
his pioneer family who came in the 1950s.
He had the huge advantage of owning three
adjoining lots occupied by old vacant shacks
and sheds. But he didn’t want to invest in anything big or permanent, opting instead for
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Rocher petitioned the city to allow a
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And they fit very nicely into the offbeat neighbourhood.
They sit on blocks on a gravel pad, ready
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to do,” he says flatly. “Real estate is the first barrier, and getting through the permitting and
inspection stage is horribly expensive.” And
because he furnishes the units and covers all
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Google “tiny house movement” and 35 million
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Echoing these advocates, Chris Merklinger
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Even the hard-nosed Rocher doesn’t deny
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After hours call Bryan Rendell at:
Tel: 867.445.7468 Fax: 867.873.3739
329 Old Airport Road, Box 1645, Yellowknife, NT X1A 2P2
Guaranteed Quality Service by Trained Personnel
24-hour Emergency Service
call for a FREE Estimate
(867)873-9178
no appointment necessary
FIRST NATIONS
INSURANCE SERVICES
L I M I T E D
FOR ALL YOUR FINANCIAL PLANNING NEEDS
• Group Employee Benefits
• Group Pension Plans
• Employee & Family Assistance Plan
• Individual Products (Life, Health & Savings)
• Specialty coverage for Chiefs & Councillors, Elders,
Boardmembers, Seasonal crews, etc.
• Protect & Enhance - but never duplicate or replace - Treaty Rights
• Brokerage built on solid foundation of honesty, integrity and over
60 years of combined insurance expertise.
GENERAL CONTRACTORS
RESIDENTIAL & COMMERCIAL
CONSTRUCTION MANAGERS
DESIGN BUILDERS
Rejean Jacques
Bldg 2012 West Forty PO Box 1640
Iqaluit, Nunavut X0A 0H0
P:867.979.1992 F:867.979.2892
[email protected]
P A R T N E R S H I P
Delivery – Bulk and Bags
Boiler Installations
312 Woolgar Ave | 873.2392
www.enterprisepellets.com
Contact:
Helen Burgess, General Manager
Stuart McLellan, Pension Administrator
Visit us on the internet at: www.firstnationsins.com
Chief Joe Custer Reserve #201
P. O. Box 2377 (2300 – 10th Ave. West)
PRINCE ALBERT, SASK. S6V 6Z1
1.800.667.4712
GROUP OF COMPANIES
KITNUNA is a 100% Inuit owned company.
• Heavy equipment
• Commercial shops
• Rock crushing
• Trucking
• Tugs & Barges services
• Acetylene & Oxygen sales
• 3 tugs, 3 barges, 1 power barge
• Riverfront commercial property
• Winter, summer rock, gravel
construction
• Winter ice road construction
• Suppliers for crushed rock
concrete, asphalt, pads
• Water/vacuum services
• 2 complete portable rock
crushing plants
• Winch tractors, gravel trucks,
cats, loaders, excavators,
cranes, rock drills, packers,
camps
Through diverse partnerships we are able to
provide professional services in:
• Civil Construction
• Vertical Construction
• Restoration and Repair
• Excavating and Earth Moving
• Heavy Duty Repair Facility
• Petroleum (supply/deliver)
• Expediting and Logistics
• Full Concrete Services
(from powder to batch plant)
• Full Service Hardware & Building Materials
OUR SUCCESS & REPUTATION
WERE BUILT UPON THE HIGH
CALIBER OF OUR STAFF
www.bobsweld.com
[email protected]
INUVIK (867)
Fax 777-3004
777-4174
In partnership with the Gwich’in Development Corporation (GDC)
HEAD OFFICE - CAMBRIDGE BAY
P.O. Box 92, 10 Omilik Rd
Cambridge Bay, NU X0B 0C0
P: 867.983.7500 F:867.983.7501
www.kitnuna.ca
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Constructing
A & A TECHNICAL SERVICES
Box 2922, Yellowknife, NT X1A 2R2
Contact: Al Harman
P: 867-669-7022 F: 867-669-7077
W: aatechnical.ca
Links
AECOM
Contact: Michel Lanteigne
P: 867-873-6316 F: 867-873-6407
ASSOCIATED ENGINEERING LTD.
703-5201 50th Ave.
Yellowknife, NT X1A 3S9
Contact: GaryLou Julien
P: 867-920-4074 F: 604-291-6163
W: ae.ca
CANADIAN QUEST LOGISTICS, INC.
Box 3160 49 Wolverine Road
Inuvik, NT X0E 0T0
Contact: Roger Anderson
P: 867-777-3335
COFLY CONSTRUCTION LTD.
Box 1304, Inuvik, NT X0E 0T0
Contact: Charlene Ross
P: 867-777-3094
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INTERNATIONAL INC.
Box 957, Iqaluit, NU X0A 0H0
Contact: Allan Murray
P: 519-452-7700 F: 519-452-1712
W: concentriceng.com
NNCA
www.nwtca.ca
The NWT/Nunavut Construction Association is comprised of hundreds of member companies involved in
commercial, industrial and residential sectors that include contractors, trade contractors, and suppliers.
By joining the Association you help to give us a stronger voice when lobbying on behalf of our members.
NWT/Nunavut Construction Association
Box 2277, 3rd Floor, 4921 49th St., Yellowknife, NWT X1A 2P7
Tel: 867-873-3949/Fax: 867-873-8366
DILLON CONSULTING
4920 47th St., Suite 303
Box 1409 Yellowknife, NT X1A 2P1
Contact: Margaret Kralt
P: 867-920-4555 F: 867-873-3328
W: dillon.ca
GUY ARCHITECTS LTD
Contact: Constantina Tsetsos
P: 867-873-3266 F: 867-873-3366
KOBAYASHI & ZEDDA
ARCHITECTS LTD.
26-1114 First Avenue
Whitehorse, YT Y1A 1A3
Contact: Antonio Zedda
P: 867-633-6874 F: 867-633-4602
W: kza.yk.ca
M. SULLIVAN & SON LTD.
236 Madawaska Blvd
Arnprior, ON K7S 0A3
Contact: Karen Duffy
P: 613-623-6584 F: 613-623-8768
W: sullivan.ca
MACKENZIE VALLEY
ENVIRONMENTAL CONTRACTORS
Box 178, Norman Wells, NT X0E 0V0
Contact: Dennis Anthony
P: 867-587-2168 F: 867-587-3015
NAPPAQ DESIGN AND
CONSTRUCTION LTD.
Bag Service #21, Inuvik, NT X0E 0T0
Contact: Denny Rodgers
P: 867-777-7047 F: 867-777-7002
NORTHRIDGE CONTRACTING LTD.
Contact: Pascal Audet
P: 867-587-2050 F: 867-587-2781
OLLERHEAD & ASSOCIATES
Contact: Varick Ollerhead
P: 867-873-9690 F: 867-669-6334
W: ollerhead.ca
PSAV ARCHITECTS LTD.
Box 2353, 5016-47 Street
Contact: Darrell Vikse
P: 867-920-2609 F: 867-920-4261
W: psav.ca
PIN TAYLOR ARCHITECTS
3502 Raccine Road
Yellowknife, NT X1A 3J2
Contact: Becky Messier
P: 867-920-2728 F: 867-873-3816
STANTEC CONSULTING
4910-53rd St.,Yellowknife, NT X1A 3C5
Contact: Kevin Hodgins
P: 867-920-2882
STRUCTUREALL LTD.
Box 1434, Yellowknife, NT X1A 2P1
Contact: Phil Nolan, P. Eng.
P: 867-669-6793 F: 866-246-1636
W: structureall.com
TETRA TECH EBA INC.
Box 2244, Suite 201, 4916 49th St.
Contact: Jalil Mustafa
P: 867-920-2287 F: 867-873-3324
W: eba.ca
THYSSENKRUPP ELEVATOR
(CANADA) LTD
10230 176 St., Edmonton, AB T5S 1L2
Contact: Trevor Doell
P: 867-873-3232 F: 867-920-7177
W: thyssenkruppelevator.ca
WHIPONIC WELLPUTER LTD.
Contact: Kevin Diebold
P: 867-587-2389 F: 867-587-2821
WILLIAMS ENGINEERING CANADA INC.
Contact: Danielle Wawryk
P: 867-873-2395 F: 867-873-2547
W: williamsengineering.com
Auxiliary Services
ARCTIC ENERGY ALLIANCE
101, 5102-51 Street
Contact: Faye MacDonald
P: 867-920-3333 F: 867-873-0303
W: aea.nt.ca
ARCTIC STORAGE & RENTALS LTD.
Contact: Dennis Cuudlet
P: 867-777-4510 F: 867-777-4861
CAP ENTERPRISES LTD.
Box 115, Gjoa Haven, NU X0B 1J0
Contact: Charlie Cahill
P: 867-360-6272 F: 867-360-7011
Box 3160, 49 Wolverine Road
Inuvik, NT X0E 0T0
P: 867-777-3335
H.E. ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES LTD.
1-2611A, HWY 16
Spruce Grove, AB T7Y 1A1
Contact: Bill Hayes
P: 780-975-1263 F: 780-459-2943
HUB INTERNATIONAL HORIZON
INSURANCE
104, 487 Range Lake Road
Contact: Larry Jacquard
P: 867-873-6398
W: hubnunavut.com
236 Madawaska Blvd
P: 613-623-6584 F: 613-623-8768
W: sullivan.ca
MACKENZIE VALLEY
P: 867-587-2168 F: 867-587-3015
P: 867-587-2050 F: 867-587-2781
QILLAQ INNOVATIONS
Box 2142, Cambridge Bay, NU X0B 0C0
Contact: Sandi Gillis
P: 867-983-2818 F: 867-983-2858
SAKKU PROPERTIES LIMITED
Box 188, Rankin Inlet
Rankin Inlet, NU X0C 0G0
Contact: David Ittinuar
P: 867-645-2805
STREAMLINE PROJECTS 20/20 INC.
39 Eleanor Cres., Kakisa, ON L7G 2T7
Contact: Daniel Boudreault
P: 416-816-4913
(CANADA) LTD
P: 867-873-3232 F: 867-920-7177
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TULITA DISTRICT INVESTMENT
CORPORATION
General Delivery, Tulit’a, NT X0E 0K0
Contact: Ethel Blondin Andrew
P: 867-587-2389 F: 867-587-2821
YELLOWKNIFE CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE
#21-4802 50 Avenue
Yellowknife, NT X1A 1C4
Contact: Deneen Everett
P: 867-920-4944
W: ykchamber.com
Electrical Contractors
& Supply
ADCO NORTH LIMITED
Contact: Dale Sinclair
P: 867-873-5517 F: 867-873-5557
703-5201 50th Avenue
P: 867-920-4074 F: 604-291-6163
W: ae.ca
BLCS LTD./UMINGMAK SUPPLY LTD.
1429 Mountain Avenue
Winnipeg, MB R2X 2Y9
Contact: Lyle Clifford
P: 204-661-4222 F: 204-663-9786
W: umingmak.com & blcs.ca
CTE CONTRACTORS
Box 48005, Winnipeg, MB R2J 4A3
Contact: Guy Dupas
P: 204-257-5910 F: 204-257-5918
DT ELECTRIC LTD.
Box 835, 10 Nahanni Drive
Contact: Duc Trinh
P: 867-669-7749 F: 867-669-7748
EATON INDUSTRIES (CANADA)
COMPANY
12465-153 St., Edmonton, AB T5V 1E4
Contact: Don MacDonald
P: 403-490-3283 F: 780-450-1750
W: eatoncanada.ca
ED’S ELECTRICAL SERVICES LTD.
Box 751, Rankin Inlet, NU X0C 0G0
Contact: Ed Fagon
P: 867-645-2381
GAP ELECTRIC LTD.
Box 20055 R.P.O.
Yellowknife, NT X1A 3X8
Contact: Philip Rogers
P: 867-669-0776 F: 867-669-0767
NEXUM SYSTEMS INC.
Contact: Rob Johnson
P: 867-669-9191 F: 867-669-9192
W: nexumsys.com
GLOBAL TECH FIRE & SECURITY
Contact: David McLean
P: 867-873-4837
NORTHERN INDUSTRIAL SALES
326B Old Airport Road
Yellowknife, NT X1A 3T3
Contact: Dennis Clarke
P: 867-669-7779 F: 867-669-7767
ICE ELECTRIC LTD.
55 Calder Crescent
Yellowknife, NT X1A 3A9
Contact: Mike Rogers
P: 867-446-3331 F: 867-766-4764
P: 867-587-2050 F: 867-587-2781
BRADEN-BURRY EXPEDITING LTD.
18 Yellowknife Airport
Contact: Ryan Heslep
P: 867-766-8672 F: 867-766-8667
W: bbex.com
P: 867-360-6272 F: 867-360-7011
Inuvik, NT X0E 0T0
P: 867-777-3335
IGLOO BUILDING SUPPLIES
GROUP LTD.
950 Cadieux, Valleyfield, QC J8T 6L4
Contact: Steve Gravel
P: 450-373-2500 F: 450-373-3136
NORTHWIND INDUSTRIES LTD
Contact: Fred Bailey / Kurt Wainman
P: 867-777-2426 F: 867-777-3203
W: northwindltd.ca
JAGO SERVICES INC.
Contact: Wilf Wilcox
P: 867-983-2268 F: 867-983-2258
RYFAN ELECTRIC LTD.
Box 1835, #9 Nahanni Drive
Contact: Chris Houghton
P: 867-765-6111 F: 867-873-6159
ESKIMO POINT LUMBER SUPPLY &
AIRPORT SERVICES LTD
Box 420, Arviat, NU X0C 0E0
Contact: Ryan St.John
P: 867-857-2752
SEQUIN MORRIS INC.
620 rue Vernon, Gatineau , QC J9J 3K5
Contact: Francois Blais or Martin Querry
P: 819-776-3939 F: 819-776-4869
GROUP LTD.
P: 450-373-2500 F: 450-373-3136
KRT ELECTRICAL LTD.
Contact: Rick Smith
P: 867-979-2639 F: 867-979-0195
236 Madawaska Blvd
P: 613-623-6584 F: 613-623-8768
W: sullivan.ca
MACKENZIE ELECTRIC LTD.
51 Studney Dr., Hay River, NT X0E 0R6
Contact: Bruce Powder
P: 867-874-6806 F: 867-874-2368
MACKENZIE VALLEY
P: 867-587-2168 F: 867-587-3015
MCDONALD BROS. ELECTRIC
Contact: Ken MacDonald
P: 867-777-2025 F: 867-777-4469
MILLENNIUM CONSTRUCTION LTD.
Contact: David Kassem
P: 867-777-4047 F: 867-777-4081
W: millenniumconstruction.ca
UNITED FARMERS OF ALBERTA LTD.
Box 103, La Crete, AB T0H 2H0
Contact: Jake Doerksen
P: 780-928-3088
WAYNE KAKFWI
Box 5, Hay River, NT X0E 1L0
Contact: Wayne Kakfwi
P: 867-446-2157
WESTBURNE ELECTRIC SUPPLY
Contact: Kelly Gabruck
P: 780-918-9397 F: 867-669-9695
W: westburnedirect.com
P: 867-587-2389 F: 867-587-2821
Expediting &
Logistics
P: 204-661-4222 F: 204-663-9786
W: umingmak.com & www.blcs.ca
CARTER INDUSTRIES LTD.
Contact: Shawn Carter
P: 867-874-6574 F: 867-874-6154
MACKENZIE VALLEY
P: 867-587-2168
F: 867-587-3015
P: 867-587-2050 F: 867-587-2781
P: 867-777-2426 F: 867-777-3203
W: www.northwindltd.ca
QILLAQ INNOVATIONS
P: 867-983-2818 F: 867-983-2858
WEATHERBY TRUCKING LTD.
Contact: Kelley Weatherby
P: 867-873-9801 F: 867-873-9803
Safety Training,
Supplies, Fire
Prevention
& Suppression
P: 204-661-4222 F: 204-663-9786
P: 867-360-6272 F: 867-360-7011
VICTAULIC
123 Newkirk Road
Richmond Hill, ON L4C 3G5
Contact: Tyler Solsten
P: 905-884-7444
W: victaulic.com
FIRE PREVENTION SERVICES LTD.
Box 2422 Stn Main
Contact: Bob or Ryan Doherty
P: 867-873-3800 F: 867-669-7462
W: ykfireprevention.ca
GAP ELECTRIC LTD.
Box 20055 R.P.O.
P: 867-669-0776 F: 867-669-0767
GLB FIRE PROTECTION
1802 route de l’aéroport
Quebec, QC G2G 2P7
Contact: Martin Bedard
P: 418-877-2111 F: 418-877-0086
GLOBAL TECH FIRE & SECURITY
Contact: David McLean
P: 867-873-4837
GROUP LTD.
P: 450-373-2500 F: 450-373-3136
J&A FIRE PROTECTION
109 Hordal Road
Yellowknife, NT X1A 3J7
Contact: Jim Mernickle
P: 867-669-6354 F: 867-669-6206
236 Madawaska Blvd
P: 613-623-6584 F: 613-623-8768
W: sullivan.ca
MACKENZIE VALLEY
P: 867-587-2168 F: 867-587-3015
MCCOY ENTERPRISES LTD
Box 11, 12 Canol Drive
Norman Wells, NT X0E 0V0
Contact: Kelly McCoy
P: 867-587-2499 F: 867-587-2210
NATIK PROJECTS (2007) INC.
12525-125 Street NW
Edmonton, AB T5L 0T4
Contact: Anna-Lisa Bruno
P: 780-453-3257 F: 780-447-2612
NEXUM SYSTEMS INC.
Contact: Rob Johnson
P: 867-669-9191 F: 867-669-9192
W: nexumsys.com
P: 867-669-7779 F: 867-669-7767
P: 867-777-2426 F: 867-777-3203
W: northwindltd.ca
SLADES FIRE PROTECTION
Box 37, 68 Curry Drive
Contact: Neil Slade
P: 867-873-8569 F: 867-873-6957
STONEWALL SPRINKLER CO.
22 Feather Lane, Enfield, NS B2T 1G9
Contact: Stephen Jackson
P: 902-883-7652 F: 902-883-7642
General Contractors,
Doors & Windows,
Flooring & Interior
Finishes
506597 N.W.T. LTD
Contact: Darren Karst
P: 867-678-0353
ACE ENTERPRISES LTD.
Contact: Kim Rossignol
P: 867-920-2082 F: 867-873-6572
ADCO NORTH LIMITED
P: 867-873-5517 F: 867-873-5557
ADONIS PLANNING LTD.
Contact: Don Asher
P: 867-873-8763 F: 867-873-8762
ALL-WEST GLASS YELLOWKNIFE LTD.
Contact: Chad Clefstad
P: 867-920-2238 F: 867-873-4163
ALMIQ CONTRACTING LTD.
130 Notre Dame Ouest
Alma, QC G8B 2K1
Contact: Robin Larouche
P: 418-668-3321 F: 418-668-0652
W: almiq.com
ARCTIC BUILDERS LTD.
8663 Sloane Court
Edmonton, AB T6R 0K9
Contact: Derrick Weitzel
P: 780-667-0556 F: 780-752-3193
ARCTIC CANADA CONSTRUCTION LTD.
Contact: Duncan Cooke
P: 867-765-0394 F: 867-669-9596
W: arcan.nt.ca
ARCTIC CIRCLE CONSTRUCTION LTD.
Contact: Mike Rizzi
P: 867-979-4130 F: 867-979-4130
ARCTIC RESTORATION
CORPORATION
Contact: Vince Brown
P: 867-777-5708 F: 867-777-3786
P: 867-777-4510 F: 867-777-4861
ARQVARTUUQ SERVICES LTD
Box 130, Arctic Bay, NU X0A 0A0
Contact: Moses Oyukuluk
P: 867-439-8227 F: 867-439-8017
ATCO STRUCTURES &
LOGISTICS LTD.
203-5109 48th Street
Contact: Barry Gaulton
P: 867-669-7370 F: 867-669-7371
W: atcofrontec.com
P: 204-661-4222 F: 204-663-9786
C.A.B. CONSTRUCTION
Box 1327, Fort Smith, NT X0E 0P0
Contact: Craig Browne
P: 867-872-2058 F: 867-872-5926
CAMCO CONSTRUCTION 2013 LTD.
Box 2727, 102 Etthen Dr.
Contact: Jeff Parrott
& Jenniffer Eggenberger
P: 867-873-8522 F: 867-873-8518
Inuvik, NT X0E 0T0
P: 867-777-3335
P: 867-360-6272 F: 867-360-7011
P: 867-874-6574 F: 867-874-6154
CLARK BUILDERS
Box 667, 206-349 Old Airport Road
Contact: Dave Brothers
P: 867-873-6337 F: 867-873-8496
P: 867-777-3094
COMMERCIAL NDS
Box 1644 114 Taltheilei Dr.
Contact: Gilles St-Arneault
P: 867-873-9415 F: 867-920-4196
COOPER BARGING SERVICE LTD.
Box 366, Fort Nelson, BC V0C 1R0
Contact: Michael Cooper
P: 250-774-6659 F: 250-774-6744
W: cooperservices.ca
DILLON CONSULTING
4920 47th Street Suite 303
P: 867-920-4555 F: 867-873-3328
W: www.dillon.ca
E. GRUBEN’S TRANSPORT LTD.
Box 177, Tuktoyaktuk, NT X0E 1C0
Contact: Russell Newmark
P: 855-673-7001 F: 867-977-7040
IKPIARYUK SERVICES LTD.
Contact: Frank May
P: 867-439-8750 F: 867-439-8052
ELITE COMMERCIAL FLOORING LTD.
Box 353, 114 Deh Cho Boulevard
Contact: Carey McKiel
P: 867-873-6094 F: 867-873-6098
INUKSHUK ENTERPRISES
Contact: Bruce Peterson
P: 867-983-2806
ENERGY WALL
Box 638, 15 Coronation Drive
Contact: Manuel Jorge
P: 867-873-5655 F: 867-873-5919
W: energywallsystems.com
P: 867-857-2752
FILLMORE CONSTRUCTION
MANAGEMENT INC.
9114-34A Ave., Edmonton, AB T6E 5P4
Contact: Amine Benguedda
P: 780-430-0005 F: 780-437-3998
FITZGERALD CARPETING LTD.
304 Woolgar Street
Yellowknife, NT X1A 3B5
Contact: Mary-Ellen Savard
or Paul McGrath
P: 867-873-5768 F: 867-920-4856
G.C. NORTH CONSTRUCTION INC.
Box 1840, 2012 West Forty
Iqaluit, NU X0A 0H0
Contact: Réjean Jacques
P: 867-979-1992 F: 867-979-2892
HAY RIVER MOBILE HOME PARK LTD
25 Studney Drive
Hay River, NT X0E 0R6
Contact: Michelle Schaub
P: 867-874-3243 F: 867-874-6558
E: [email protected] W: www.rowes.ca
JR PEYTON ENT. LTD.
Box 303, Airport Road
Pangniirtung , NU X0A 0H0
Contact: Jeffrey Peyton
P: 867-473-8665 F: 867-473-8845
JAGO SERVICES INC.
P: 867-983-2268 F: 867-983-2258
KP WOODWRIGHT
224 Miron Drive, Hay River, NT X0E 0R2
Contact: Ken Wray
P: 867-874-6724 F: 867-874-6725
KALVIK ENTERPRISES INC.
Contact: Helen Koaha
P: 867-983-2996 F: 867-983-5053
KAMIKPAK CONSTRUCTION
Box 539, Pond Inlet, NU X0A 0S0
Contact: Timasie Peterloosie
P: 867-899-8661 F: 867-899-8660
KASTEEL KONSTRUCTION INC.
Contact: Trevor Kasteel
P: 867-873-2800 F: 867-873-2899
KAWTAQ CONSTRUCTION LTD.
Box 158, Sanikiluaq, NU X0A 0W0
Contact: Lucassie Kittosuk
P: 867-266-8707 F: 867-266-8702
HOVAT CONSTRUCTION (1985) LTD.
Contact: Eric Sputek
P: 867-920-4141 F: 867-873-6880
KINNGAIT PROPERTY
MANAGEMENT LTD.
Box 179, House 3040
Cape Dorset, NU X0A 0C0
Contact: Bob Wortman
P: 867-897-7999 F: 867-897-7070
ICE ELECTRIC LTD.
55 Calder Crescent
Contact: Mike Rogers
P: 867-446-3331 F: 867-766-4764
KITNUNA PROJECTS
Contact: Matt Zukiwsky
P: 867-983-7515 F: 867-983-7501
W: kitnuna.ca
GROUP LTD.
P: 450-373-2500 F: 450-373-3136
KUDLIK CONSTRUCTION LTD.
Contact: Armand Gelinas
P: 867-979-1166 F: 867-979-1169
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LYALL CONSTRUCTION LTD.
Box 1, Taloyoak, NU X0B 1B0
Contact: Dennis Lyall
P: 867-561-5500
M&L GENERAL CONTRACTING LTD.
83 Higgins Ave., Winnipeg, MB R3B 0B3
Contact: Reece Tomlinson
P: 204-774-4803 F: 204-774-1200
W: mlgeneralcontracting.com
236 Madawaska Blvd
P: 613-623-6584 F: 613-623-8768
W: sullivan.ca
MACKENZIE VALLEY
P: 867-587-2168 F: 867-587-3015
P: 867-777-4047 F: 867-777-4081
MOSHER ENGINEERING LTD.
Box 545, 1869 Upper Water St. Suite
AH202 Halifax, NS B3J 1S9
Contact: David Mosher
P: 902-429-0272 F: 902-429-7762
MURPHY CONSTRUCTION
5026 Forrest Drive
Contact: Joe Murphy
P: 867-766-4886
NAPPAQ DESIGN AND
CONSTRUCTION LTD.
P: 867-777-7047 F: 867-777-7002
NASON CONTRACTING GROUP LTD.
25 Corriveau Avenue
St. Albert, AB T8N 5A3
Contact: Angie Fowers
P: 780-470-7100 F: 780-459-1208
W: nason.ca
NOGHA ENTERPRISES LTD.
Box 410, Fort Simpson, NT X0E 0N0
Contact: Daniel Hilman
P: 867-695-3533 F: 867-695-2119
NORTHERN EAVES TROUGHING &
RENOS LTD./ NORTHERN STEAM
45 Johnson Crescent
Contact: Darrill Letemplier
or Clyde Barttlet
P: 867-445-7912 F: 867-669-7943
P: 867-669-7779 F: 867-669-7767
NORTHERN INTERIORS LTD.
Contact: Trina Rentmeister
P: 867-920-2289 F: 867-873-5453
W: northerninteriors.ca
P: 867-587-2050 F: 867-587-2781
P: 867-777-2426 F: 867-777-3203
W: northwindltd.ca
NUNAVUT CONSTRUCTION LIMITED
Contact: Laureat Lessard
P: 867-979-7711 F: 867-979-7712
NCC DEVELOPMENT LIMITED
Box 850 Iqaluit NU, Iqaluit, NU X0A 0H0
Contact: Clarence Synard
P: 867-979-8900 F: 867-979-0127
E: [email protected] W: www.nig.ca
PARLAY WOODWORKS LTD.
Contact: Mike Parsons
P: 867-222-5667
NWT CONSTRUCTION LTD.
Contact: Rod Hildebrandt
P: 867-920-4844 F: 867-873-8776
POWER’S PAINTING LTD.
Box 1264, Nisku, AB T9E 8A8
Contact: Carl Power
P: 780-221-9110
NAHANNI CONSTRUCTION LTD.
Contact: Kenny Ruptash
P: 867-873-2975 F: 867-873-9620
QIKIQTAALUK CORPORATION
Contact: Harry Flaherty
P: 867-979-8400 F: 867-979-8433
W: qcorp.ca
QILLAQ INNOVATIONS
P: 867-983-2818 F: 867-983-2858
P: 780-928-3088
QUINAN CONSTRUCTION LTD.
55 Progress Drive, Unit 1
Orillia, ON L3V 6H1
Contact: Mike Unwin
P: 705-325-7704 F: 705-325-2061
WAYNE KAKFWI
P: 867-446-2157
R.L. HANSON CONSTRUCTION LTD.
Contact: Robert Hanson
P: 867-979-6004 F: 867-979-4873
ROWES
25 Studney Drive
P: 867-874-3243 F: 867-874-6558
SALT RIVER FIRST NATION
DEVELOPMENT CORP.
Box 960, Fort Smith, NT X0E 0P0
Contact: David Poitras
P: 867-872-2698 F: 867-872-3550
SAVIK CONSTRUCTION
Box 179, Igloolik, NU X0A 0L0
Contact: Ike Haulli
P: 867-934-8903 F: 867-934-8704
TAURUS CONTRACTORS LTD.
20030-107 Avenue
Edmonton, AB T5S 1W8
Contact: Craig Piwowar
P: 780-482-2915 F: 780-482-3664
TAYLOR & COMPANY
6 Camsell Cres., Hay River, NT X0E 0R7
Contact: Andy Taylor
P: 867-874-2447 F: 867-874-4670
THE FINISHING TOUCH
123 Haener Drive
Contact: Laurie Stewart
P: 867-446-0227
TOWER ARCTIC LTD.
Contact: John Jacobsen
P: 867-979-6465 F: 867-979-6591
P: 867-873-9801 F: 867-873-9803
WESCLEAN NORTHERN SALES LTD.
15 Industrial Dr., Hay River, NT X0E 0R6
Contact: Brad Mapes
P: 867-875-5100 F: 867-875-5115
W: wescleannwt.com
P: 867-587-2389 F: 867-587-2821
Foundations, Pilings,
Blasting & Drilling
Contact: Don Asher
P: 867-873-8763 F: 867-873-8762
Alma, QC G8B 2K1
P: 418-668-3321 F: 418-668-0652
W: almiq.com
8663 Sloane Court
P: 780-667-0556 F: 780-752-3193
ARCTIC FOUNDATIONS OF CANADA/
ENCOMPASS INC.
Box 359, 15 Elie Street E
Elie, MB R0H 0H0
Contact: Christa Vann
P: 204-353-2510 F: 204-353-2610
TULITA DISTRICT INVESTMENT
CORPORATION
General Delivery, Tulit’a, NT X0E 0K0
Contact: Ethel Blondin Andrew
P: 867-777-4510 F: 867-777-4861
TUNDRA CONSTRUCTION &
DEVELOPMENT LTD.
Box 2888, 110 Taltheilei Drive
Contact: Jack op der Heijde
P: 867-873-6607 F: 867-873-6602
BREAK-AWAY DRILLING &
BLASTING LTD.
Contact: Shawn Ward
P: 867-766-7945 F: 867-766-7945
Box115, Gjoa Haven, NU X0B 1J0
P: 867-360-6272
F: 867-360-7011
P: 867-874-6574 F: 867-874-6154
P: 867-777-3094
P: 867-983-2806
P: 867-561-5500
P: 780-928-3088
WAYNE KAKFWI
P: 867-446-2157
Manufacturers &
Cabinetmakers
8663 Sloane Court
P: 780-667-0556 F: 780-752-3193
CRP PRODUCTS & MANUFACTURING
3001 84th Ave., Edmonton, AB T6P 1K1
Contact: Samantha Hryhorak
P: 780-449-1599 F: 780-449-1596
W: crp.ab.ca
MACKENZIE VALLEY
P: 867-587-2168 F: 867-587-3015
ENERGY WALL
P: 867-873-5655 F: 867-873-5919
P: 867-587-2499 F: 867-587-2210
P: 867-920-4141 F: 867-873-6880
P: 867-777-4047 F: 867-777-4081
Box 545 1869 Upper Water St. Ste AH202
Halifax, NS B3J 1S9
P: 902-429-0272 F: 902-429-7762
MURPHY CONSTRUCTION
5026 Forrest Drive
Contact: Joe Murphy
P: 867-766-4886
QILLAQ INNOVATIONS
P: 867-983-2818 F: 867-983-2858
THE FINISHING TOUCH
123 Haener Dr., Yellowknife, NT X1A 2P7
P: 867-446-0227
GROUP LTD.
P: 450-373-2500 F: 450-373-3136
P: 867-983-2806
KP WOODWRIGHT
Contact: Ken Wray
P: 867-874-6724 F: 867-874-6725
KING MANUFACTURING
9 Aspen Road SS 31
Contact: Jason Coakwell
P: 867-874-7650 F: 867-874-4819
MACKENZIE VALLEY
P: 867-587-2168 F: 867-587-3015
MURPHY CONSTRUCTION
5026 Forrest Drive
Contact: Joe Murphy
P: 867-766-4886
P: 867-587-2050 F: 867-587-2781
THE FINISHING TOUCH
123 Haener Drive
P: 867-446-0227
(CANADA) LTD
P: 867-873-3232 F: 867-920-7177
WAYNE KAKFWI
P: 867-446-2157
Materials,
Equipment Supply,
Rental & Repair
ARCTIC RESTORATION
CORPORATION
P: 867-777-5708 F: 867-777-3786
P: 867-777-4510 F: 867-777-4861
P: 204-661-4222 F: 204-663-9786
P: 867-360-6272 F: 867-360-7011
CRP PRODUCTS &
MANUFACTURING
3001 84 Ave., Edmonton, AB T6P 1K1
P: 780-449-1599 F: 780-449-1596
W: crp.ab.ca
CANADIAN DEWATERING LP
Contact: John Carlsen
P: 867-873-5400 F: 867-920-7164
P: 867-695-3533 F: 867-695-2119
P: 867-874-6574 F: 867-874-6154
P: 867-669-7779 F: 867-669-7767
P: 867-857-2752
P: 867-920-4141 F: 867-873-6880
GROUP LTD.
P: 450-373-2500 F: 450-373-3136
IKPIARYUK SERVICES LTD.
Box 25 Arctic Bay, NU X0A 0A0
Contact: Frank May
P: 867-439-8750 F: 867-439-8052
JAGO SERVICES INC.
P: 867-983-2268 F: 867-983-2258
JOHN BJORNSON CONST. LTD.
Box 31, Fort Resolution, NT X0E 0M0
Contact: John Bjornson
P: 867-394-3291 F: 867-394-5420
KINNGAIT PROPERTY
MANAGEMENT LTD.
Box 179 House 3040
P: 867-897-7999 F: 867-897-7070
MACKENZIE VALLEY
P: 867-587-2168 F: 867-587-3015
P: 867-587-2499 F: 867-587-2210
12525-125 Street NW
P: 780-453-3257 F: 780-447-2612
P: 867-587-2050 F: 867-587-2781
POLAR TECH RENTALS & REPAIRS
Box 2160, 213 Utsingi Drive
Contact: Eric Doig
P: 867-766-4848 F: 867-766-4849
W: polartech.ca
QILLAQ INNOVATIONS
P: 867-983-2818 F: 867-983-2858
RON’S EQUIPMENT RENTAL &
INDUSTRIAL SUPPLY
Box 185, 103 Kam Lake Road
Contact: Rita Chamberlin
P: 867-766-6025 F: 867-873-4871
SEQUIN MORRIS INC.
620 Vernon Gatineau , QC J9J 3K5
Contact: Francois Blais or Martin Querry
P: 819-776-3939 F: 819-776-4869
TAYLOR & COMPANY
6 Camsell Cr., Hay River, NT X0E 0R7
P: 867-874-2447 F: 867-874-4670
(CANADA) LTD
P: 867-873-3232 F: 867-920-7177
TOWER ARCTIC LTD.
P: 867-979-6465 F: 867-979-6591
WESCLEAN NORTHERN SALES LTD.
15 Industrial Dr., Hay River, NT X0E 0R6
Contact: Brad Mapes
P: 867-875-5100 F: 867-875-5115
W: wescleannwt.com
Mechanical, Heat
& Refrigeration
ADCO NORTH LIMITED
P: 867-873-5517 F: 867-873-5557
ARCTIC GREEN ENERGY
22 Coronation Drive
Contact: Austin Tokarek
P: 867-873-2504 F: 867-873-2598
W: arcticgreenenergy.ca
P: 867-920-4074 F: 604-291-6163
W: ae.ca
P: 867-360-6272 F: 867-360-7011
P: 780-449-1599 F: 780-449-1596
W: crp.ab.ca
CENTRAL MECHANICAL
SYSTEMS LTD.
345 Old Airport Road
Contact: Bill Aho
P: 867-873-3003 F: 867-873-6633
W: cmsyk.com
CHRISTMAN PLUMBING &
HEATING LTD.
255 Rutland Road North
Kelowna, BC V1X 3B1
Contact: Rob Christman
P: 250-765-0066 F: 250-765-4311
W: christmanplumbingandheating.com
P: 867-857-2752
GROUP LTD.
P: 450-373-2500 F: 450-373-3136
J & R MECHANICAL LTD.
312 Woolgar Avenue
Contact: Joseph Chorostkowski
P: 867-873-2392 F: 867-873-6904
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JSL MECHANICAL
INSTALLATIONS LTD.
Contact: Ken Leonardis
P: 867-873-2856 F: 867-873-4116
JAGO SERVICES INC.
P: 867-983-2268 F: 867-983-2258
KINNGAIT PROPERTY
MANAGEMENT LTD.
Box 179, House 3040
P: 867-897-7999 F: 867-897-7070
LOOK HVAC SYSTEMS LTD.
Contact: Randy Look
P: 867-669-7347 F: 867-669-0487
W: lookhvac.com
LAWLOR MECHANICAL LTD.
Contact: Paul or Martha Lawlor
P: 867-979-8662 F: 867-979-3177
MACKENZIE VALLEY
P: 867-587-2168 F: 867-587-3015
Box 545 1869 Upper Water Street
Suite AH202 Halifax, NS B3J 1S9
P: 902-429-0272 F: 902-429-7762
NARWHAL PLUMBING &
HEATING LTD.
Contact: Renault Sage
P: 867-979-6350 F: 867-979-6622
12525-125 Street NW
P: 780-453-3257 F: 780-447-2612
NUNA MECHANICAL LIMITED
Box 2174, 1104 Inuksugait Plaza
Iqaluit, NU X0A 0H0
Contact: Trevor Clarke
P: 867-975-3159
PLUMB CRAZY MECHANICAL LTD
Contact: Doug Gillis
P: 867-777-3210 F: 867-777-3209
PRO-SAG PLUMBING AND HEATING
(9179 QUÉBEC INC.)
130 rue Cossette
Chicoutimi, QC G7J 4N4
Contact: Yves Lapointe
P: 418-543-2638 F: 418-543-0293
P: 867-766-8672 F: 867-766-8667
W: www.bbex.com
PRO-WESTERN MECHANICAL LTD.
10-3703 Mitchelmore Avenue
Saskatoon, SK S7P 0C5
Contact: Wes Levesque
P: 306-979-9500 F: 306-979-5990
W: prowestern.ca
GAP ELECTRIC LTD.
Box 20055 R.P.O.
P: 867-669-0776 F: 867-669-0767
ROCKY’S PLUMBING &
HEATING LTD.
Contact: Mario Lemieux
P: 867-777-2579 F: 867-777-3511
SLADES FIRE PROTECTION
Box 37, 68 Curry Drive
Contact: Neil Slade
P: 867-873-8569 F: 867-873-6957
TAYLOR & COMPANY
6 Camsell Cr., Hay River, NT X0E 0R7
P: 867-874-2447 F: 867-874-4670
GLB FIRE PROTECTION
1802 route de l’aéroport
Quebec, QC G2G 2P7
Contact: Martin Bedard
P: 418-877-2111 F: 418-877-0086
GROUP LTD.
P: 450-373-2500 F: 450-373-3136
MACKENZIE VALLEY
P: 867-587-2168 F: 867-587-3015
P: 780-928-3088
P: 867-695-3533 F: 867-695-2119
WAYNE KAKFWI
P: 867-446-2157
P: 867-669-7779 F: 867-669-7767
Mining Companies,
Service & Supply
Alma, QC G8B 2K1
P: 418-668-3321 F: 418-668-0652
W: almiq.com
P: 867-920-4074 F: 604-291-6163
W: ae.ca
1429 Mountain Ave
P: 204-661-4222 F: 204-663-9786
NUNA LOGISTICS LIMITED
202-5109 48 Street
Contact: Dan Kane
P: 867-766-3001 F: 867-766-3005
W: nunalogistics.com
QILLAQ INNOVATIONS
P: 867-983-2818 F: 867-983-2858
TLI CHO LANDTRAN
TRANSPORT LTD.
Box 577, 358 Old Airport Road
Contact: Shawn Talbot
P: 867-873-4044 F: 867-873-2780
P: 867-873-9801 F: 867-873-9803
Painting, Drywall
& Ceilings
Alma, QC G8B 2K1
P: 418-668-3321 F: 418-668-0652
W: www.almiq.com
8663 Sloane Court
P: 780-667-0556 F: 780-752-3193
ARCTIC RESTORATION
CORPORATION
P: 867-777-5708 F: 867-777-3786
P: 867-777-4510 F: 867-777-4861
BEAVER’S PAINTING
Box 91, Yellowknife NT X1A 2N1
Contact: Raymond Marie
P: 867-765-8210 F: 867-669-7314
P: 867-360-6272 F: 867-360-7011
Inuvik, NT X0E 0T0
P: 867-777-3335
COMMERCIAL NDS
Box 1644 114 Taltheilei Drive
P: 867-873-9415 F: 867-920-4196
P: 867-857-2752
GROUP LTD.
P: 450-373-2500 F: 450-373-3136
P: 867-394-3291 F: 867-394-5420
P: 867-983-2996 F: 867-983-5053
POWER’S PAINTING LTD.
Box 1264, Nisku, AB T9E 8A8
Contact: Carl Power
P: 780-221-9110
P: 867-899-8661 F: 867-899-8660
QILLAQ INNOVATIONS
P: 867-983-2818 F: 867-983-2858
KINNGAIT PROPERTY
MANAGEMENT LTD.
Box 179, House 3040
P: 867-897-7999 F: 867-897-7070
SIMON’S PAINTING
Box 20046, Yellowknife, NT X1A 3X8
Contact: Simon Onniboni
P: 867-445-8884 F: 867-873-8884
MACKENZIE VALLEY
P: 867-587-2168 F: 867-587-3015
P: 867-777-4047 F: 867-777-4081
W: www.millenniumconstruction.ca
MURPHY CONSTRUCTION
5026 Forrest Drive
Contact: Joe Murphy
P: 867-766-4886
NAPPAQ DESIGN AND
CONSTRUCTION LTD.
P: 867-777-7047 F: 867-777-7002
45 Johnson Crescent
or Clyde Barttlet
P: 867-445-7912 F: 867-669-7943
P: 867-669-7779 F: 867-669-7767
NORTHERN WALL & CEILING
Box 2534, Station Main
Contact: Morris Bishop
P: 867-445-9400 F: 867-873-2472
P: 867-222-5667
THE FINISHING TOUCH
123 Haener Drive
P: 867-446-0227
P: 780-928-3088
WAYNE KAKFWI
P: 867-446-2157
Petroleum Service
& Supply
P: 867-439-8227 F: 867-439-8017
P: 867-766-8672 F: 867-766-8667
W: bbex.com
P: 250-774-6659 F: 250-774-6744
P: 867-857-2752
MACKENZIE VALLEY
P: 867-587-2168 F: 867-587-3015
ORBIS ENGINEERING FIELD
SERVICES LTD.
300, 9404 - 41 Avenue
Edmonton, AB T6E 6G8
Contact: Colleen Wiebe
P: 866-886-7247 F: 780-988-0191
W: orbisengineering.net
Pre-Engineered
Buildings
Box 1584, 24 Industrial Road
Inuvik, NT X0E 0T0
P: 780-667-0556 F: 867-777-2405
P: 867-777-4510 F: 867-777-4861
P: 204-661-4222 F: 204-663-9786
CLARK BUILDERS
Box 667, 206-349 Old Airport Road
Contact: Dave Brothers
P: 867-873-6337 F: 867-873-8496
ENERGY WALL
P: 867-873-5655 F: 867-873-5919
P: 867-920-4141 F: 867-873-6880
GROUP LTD.
P: 450-373-2500 F: 450-373-3136
P: 867-983-2806
236 Madawaska Blvd
P: 613-623-6584 F: 613-623-8768
W: sullivan.ca
MACKENZIE VALLEY
P: 867-587-2168 F: 867-587-3015
P: 867-777-4047 F: 867-777-4081
QILLAQ INNOVATIONS
P: 867-983-2818 F: 867-983-2858
20030-107 Avenue
P: 780-482-2915 F: 780-482-3664
P: 780-928-3088
Public Services
P: 867-777-4510 F: 867-777-4861
CANADA MORTGAGE AND
HOUSING CORPORATION
5201 50th Avenue, Suite 806
ellowknife, NT X1A 3S9
Contact: Sandra Turner
P: 867-873-2637 F: 867-873-3922
W: www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca
GN COMMUNITY &
GOVERNMENT SERVICES
4th Floor, W. G. Brown Bldg. Box 1000 Station 1600 Iqaluit, NU X0A 0H0
Contact: Bonnie Osborne
P: 867-975-5415 F: 867-975-5450
GNWT - DEPARTMENT OF
TRANSPORTATION
Government of the NWT Box 1320
Yellowknife, NT X1A 2L9
Contact: Shelly Hodges
P: 867-920-8978 F: 867-873-0251
MACKENZIE VALLEY
P: 867-587-2168 F: 867-587-3015
NWT HOUSING CORPORATION
Government Housing Development.
Contact: Scott Reid
P: 867-873-7867 F: 867-669-9913
W: nwthc.gov.nt.ca/index.html
NUNAVUT HOUSING CORPORATION
Box 1000, station 1400,
Iqaluit, NU X0A 0H0
Contact: Lori Kimball
P: 867-975-7200 F: 867-975-7205
PUBLIC WORKS & SERVICES
NORTH SLAVE REGION
Box 1320, Yellowknife, NT X1A 2L9
Contact: Regional Manager Projects
P: 867-873-7650 F: 867-873-0257
PUBLIC WORKS AND SERVICES,
GOVERNMENT OF THE NWT
Box 1320 SMH 3, 5009 49 St
Yellowknife, NT X1A 2L9
Contact: Mike Burns
P: 867-920-6142 F: 867-873-0226
TOWN OF INUVIK
Box 1160, 2 Firth Street
Inuvik, NT X0E 0T0
Contact: Rick Campbell
P: 867-777-8615 F: 867-777-8601
WORKERS’ SAFETY &
COMPENSATION COMMISSION
Contact: Marlene Bonnell
P: 867-920-3863 F: 867-873-4596
W: wscc.nt.ca
Renovations &
Finish Carpentry
Contact: Don Asher
P: 867-873-8763 F: 867-873-8762
Alma, QC G8B 2K1
P: 418-668-3321 F: 418-668-0652
W: almiq.com
8663 Sloane Court
P: 780-667-0556 F: 780-752-3193
ARCTIC RESTORATION
CORPORATION
P: 867-777-5708 F: 867-777-3786
P: 867-777-4510 F: 867-777-4861
P: 867-360-6272 F: 867-360-7011
Inuvik, NT X0E 0T0
P: 867-777-3335
P: 867-777-3094
COMMERCIAL NDS
Box 1644, 114 Taltheilei Drive
P: 867-873-9415 F: 867-920-4196
ENERGY WALL
P: 867-873-5655 F: 867-873-5919
P: 867-857-2752
P: 867-920-4141 F: 867-873-6880
JR PEYTON ENT. LTD.
Box 303, Airport Rd.
Pangniirtung , NU X0A 0H0
Contact: Jeffrey Peyton
P: 867-473-8665 F: 867-473-8845
P: 867-394-3291 F: 867-394-5420
KP WOODWRIGHT
Contact: Ken Wray
P: 867-874-6724 F: 867-874-6725
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Box 1196 Cambridge Bay, NU X0B 0C0
P: 867-983-2996 F: 867-983-5053
P: 867-899-8661 F: 867-899-8660
KINNGAIT PROPERTY
MANAGEMENT LTD.
Box 179, House 3040
P: 867-897-7999 F: 867-897-7070
MACKENZIE VALLEY
P: 867-587-2168 F: 867-587-3015
MURPHY CONSTRUCTION
5026 Forrest Drive
Contact: Joe Murphy
P: 867-766-4886
NAPPAQ DESIGN AND
CONSTRUCTION LTD.
P: 867-777-7047 F: 867-777-7002
45 Johnson Crescent
or Clyde Barttlet
P: 867-445-7912 F: 867-669-7943
NORTHERN WALL & CEILING
Box 2534, Station Main
Contact: Morris Bishop
P: 867-445-9400 F: 867-873-2472
P: 867-222-5667
QILLAQ INNOVATIONS
P: 867-983-2818 F: 867-983-2858
SLOAN’S EXTERIORS AND
EAVESTROUGHING
7 Horton Crescent
Contact: Dave Sloan
P: 867-445-2145
THE FINISHING TOUCH
123 Haener Drive
P: 867-446-0227
P: 780-928-3088
WAYNE KAKFWI
P: 867-446-2157
Road, Sewer &
Water Contractors
ACE ENTERPRISES LTD.
Contact: Kim Rossignol
P: 867-920-2082 F: 867-873-6572
Alma, QC G8B 2K1
P: 418-668-3321 F: 418-668-0652
W: almiq.com
CAMCO CONSTRUCTION 2013 LTD.
Box 2727 102 Etthen Drive
Contact: Jeff Parrott
& Jenniffer Eggenberger
P: 867-873-8522 F: 867-873-8518
Inuvik, NT X0E 0T0
P: 867-777-3335
40 Studney Drive
P: 867-874-6574 F: 867-874-6154
DILLON CONSULTING
4920 47th Street, Suite 303
P: 867-920-4555 F: 867-873-3328
W: www.dillon.ca
P: 867-857-2752
P: 867-695-3533 F: 867-695-2119
PROFORM CONCRETE SERVICES INC.
201-5301 43 St, Red Deer, AB T4N 1C8
Contact: Curtis Bouteiller
P: 403-343-6099 F: 403-347-4980
QILLAQ INNOVATIONS
P: 867-983-2818 F: 867-983-2858
RTL ROBINSON ENTERPRISES LTD.
Contact: Larry Fairbairn
P: 867-873-6271 F: 867-920-2661
ROWES
25 Studney Drive
P: 867-874-3243 F: 867-874-6558
SAVIK CONSTRUCTION
Box 179, Igloolik, NU X0A 0L0
Contact: Ike Haulli
P: 867-934-8903 F: 867-934-8704
8663 Sloane Court
P: 780-667-0556 F: 780-752-3193
HAY RIVER MOBILE HOME PARK LTD
P: 867-874-3243 F: 867-874-6558
W: rowes.ca
SKOOKUM ASPHALT LTD.
Box 5179 ,1 Ear Lake Road
Whitehorse, YT Y1A 6L4
Contact: Darrell Stone
P: 867-668-6326 F: 867-668-6045
P: 867-439-8227 F: 867-439-8017
P: 867-561-5500
P: 867-920-4074 F: 604-291-6163
W: ae.ca
MACKENZIE VALLEY
P: 867-587-2168 F: 867-587-3015
TLI CHO LANDTRAN TRANSPORT LTD.
P: 867-873-4044 F: 867-873-2780
P: 867-360-6272 F: 867-360-7011
P: 780-449-1599 F: 780-449-1596
W: crp.ab.ca
Box 545, 1869 Upper Water Street
Suite AH202, Halifax, NS B3J 1S9
P: 902-429-0272 F: 902-429-7762
NWT CONSTRUCTION LTD.
Contact: Rod Hildebrandt
P: 867-920-4844 F: 867-873-8776
12525-125 Street NW
P: 780-453-3257 F: 780-447-2612
ARCTIC CANADA
CONSTRUCTION LTD.
Contact: Duncan Cooke
P: 867-765-0394 F: 867-669-9596
W: arcan.nt.ca
ARCTIC RESTORATION
CORPORATION
P: 867-777-5708 F: 867-777-3786
P: 867-777-4510 F: 867-777-4861
P: 204-661-4222 F: 204-663-9786
MURPHY CONSTRUCTION
5026 Forrest Drive
Contact: Joe Murphy
P: 867-766-4886
Inuvik, NT X0E 0T0
P: 867-777-3335
ENERGY WALL
P: 867-873-5655 F: 867-873-5919
GEORGE’S ROOFING LTD.
Contact: George Peters
P: 780-928-2183 F: 780-928-4783
GROUP LTD.
P: 450-373-2500 F: 450-373-3136
P: 867-873-9801 F: 867-873-9803
P: 867-983-2806
Alma, QC G8B 2K1
P: 418-668-3321 F: 418-668-0652
W: almiq.com
P: 867-587-2499 F: 867-587-2210
P: 867-777-4047 F: 867-777-4081
TOWER ARCTIC LTD.
P: 867-979-6465 F: 867-979-6591
Roofing, Siding
& Insulation
MACKENZIE VALLEY
P: 867-587-2168 F: 867-587-3015
P: 867-394-3291 F: 867-394-5420
P: 867-983-2996 F: 867-983-5053
NAPPAQ DESIGN AND
CONSTRUCTION LTD.
Bag #21, Inuvik, NT X0E 0T0
P: 867-777-7047 F: 867-777-7002
45 Johnson Crescent
or Clyde Barttlet
P: 867-445-7912 F: 867-669-7943
P: 867-669-7779 F: 867-669-7767
P: 867-777-2426 F: 867-777-3203
W: northwindltd.ca
OAKWOOD ROOFING & SHEET
METAL CO. LTD.
20 Burnett Ave., Winnipeg, MB R2G 1C1
Contact: Christine Dunning
P: 204-237-8361 F: 204-237-6169
P: 867-222-5667
QILLAQ INNOVATIONS
P: 867-983-2818 F: 867-983-2858
SLOAN’S EXTERIORS AND
EAVESTROUGHING
7 Horton Crescent
Contact: Dave Sloan
P: 867-445-2145
20030-107 Avenue.
P: 780-482-2915 F: 780-482-3664
THE FINISHING TOUCH
123 Haener Drive
P: 867-446-0227
UNICO CONTRACTORS
Contact: Chris Robb
P: 867-873-8565 F: 867-873-6784
P: 780-928-3088
WAYNE KAKFWI
P: 867-446-2157
Surveys,Maps
&Photography
DILLON CONSULTING
Box 1409, 4920 47th Street, Suite 303
P: 867-920-4555 F: 867-873-3328
W: www.dillon.ca
MACKENZIE VALLEY
P: 867-587-2168 F: 867-587-3015
OLLERHEAD & ASSOCIATES
Contact: Varick Ollerhead
P: 867-873-9690 F: 867-669-6334
W: ollerhead.ca
SUB-ARCTIC SURVEYS
Contact: Bruce Hewlko
P: 867-873-2047..F: 867-873-9079
W: sub-arctic.ca
Transport &
Communications
P: 867-439-8227..F: 867-439-8017
P: 867-920-4074 F: 604-291-6163
W: ae.ca
P: 204-661-4222 F: 204-663-9786
P: 867-766-8672 F: 867-766-8667
W: bbex.com
CANADIAN NORTH
202 Nunasi Building, 5109 48th Street
Contact: Mike Lang
P: 867-873-6114 F: 867-669-4040
W: www.canadiannorth.com
P: 867-874-6574..F: 867-874-6154
P: 250-774-6659..F: 250-774-6744
GROUP LTD.
P: 450-373-2500 F: 450-373-3136
P: 867-983-2806
MACKENZIE VALLEY
P: 867-587-2168 F: 867-587-3015
NEAS (NUNAVUT EASTERN ARCTIC
SHIPPING INC.)
2100 Pierre Dupuy,
Montreal, QC H3C 3R5
Contact: Mark Bray
P: 514-597-0186..F: 514-523-7575
P: 867-777-2426 F: 867-777-3203
W: northwindltd.ca
NUNAVUT SEALINK AND SUPPLY
INC. (NSSI)
6565, Hebert Boulevard #201
Ste-Catherine, QC J5C 1B5
Contact: François Gaudreau
P: 450-635-0833 F: 450-635-5126
E: francois.gaudreau@transarctik.
desgagnes.com
R.L. HANSON CONSTRUCTION LTD.
Contact: Robert Hanson
P: 867-979-6004 F: 867-979-4873
RTL ROBINSON ENTERPRISES LTD.
Contact: Larry Fairbairn
P: 867-873-6271 F: 867-920-2661
TLI CHO LANDTRAN TRANSPORT LTD.
P: 867-873-4044 F: 867-873-2780
TOWER ARCTIC LTD.
P: 867-979-6465..F: 867-979-6591
P: 867-873-9801..F: 867-873-9803
KING MANUFACTURING
9 Aspen Road, SS 31
Contact: Jason Coakwell
P: 867-874-7650 F: 867-874-4819
P: 867-561-5500
MACKENZIE VALLEY
P: 867-587-2168 F: 867-587-3015
Box 545, 1869 Upper Water Street
Ste. AH202, Halifax, NS B3J 1S9
P: 902-429-0272 F: 902-429-7762
12525-125 St. NW
P: 780-453-3257 F: 780-447-2612
P: 867-669-7779 F: 867-669-7767
PAUL BROS. NEXTREME INC.
Box 566, 7 Melville Drive
Contact: Eddie Paul
P: 867-873-2522..F: 867-920-2468
TOWER ARCTIC LTD.
P: 867-979-6465..F: 867-979-6591
Welding
P: 867-360-6272 F: 867-360-7011
COMMERCIAL NDS
Box 1644, 114 Taltheilei Dr.
P: 867-873-9415 F: 867-920-4196
JAGO SERVICES INC.
P: 867-983-2268 F: 867-983-2258
•
2014
69
endnote
BY THE NUMBERS
North of 60, the construction industry keeps on building.
Here’s how its value in the NWT and Nunavut adds up –
in building permits and in spending by sector.
Value of Building Permits in NWT and Nunavut ($ millions)
NORTHWEST TERRITORIES
■ NWT ■ NUNAVUT
165>
2009
2013 Value of Spending for Construction
by Sector in the NWT ($ millions)
AD-RA-EDM-2013MAR19-P1V1
Measure twice, cut once
2010
2011
Resources (751)
Public Administration (141)
Housing (103)
2012
120>
2013
153>
Other (15)
Utilities (45)
0102030405060708090100
Value of Residential Permits in NWT and Nunavut ($ millions)
■ NWT ■ NUNAVUT
2009
NUNAVUT
2010
2013 Value of Spending for Construction
by Sector in Nunavut ($ millions)
2011
2012
2013
Resources (492)
Public Administration (88)
Housing (88)
0102030405060708090100
Value of Non-Residential Construction Permits in NWT and Nunavut ($ millions)
145>
2009
■ NWT ■ NUNAVUT
Other (11)
Utilities (25)
Educational Services (25)
2010
2011
2012
2013
111>
0102030405060708090100
Source: Statistics Canada
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