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SMOKE ARCHITECTURE INC. - Keepers of the Circle, an urban Indigenous hub behind an initiative to build a factory in Kirkland Lake to make prefabricated housing for Indigenous people in northern Ontario, is training nine women in two cohorts through its partner Tooketree Passive Homes for the work ahead.
Indigenous women will also operate the 24,000-square-foot factory that will produce three panelized home designs that meet Passive House standards. The factory is scheduled to open next spring. Cormier says Keepers’ first step is to manufacture the panels but eventually the objective will include teaming up with partners to provide all the components for completed homes, inside and out.
“The building should be very welcoming for the Indigenous women working there. There will be patterns that are meaningful to them,” says Eladia Smoke, principal architect.
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