John Hupfield and Mike Ornsby in the kitchen/recruiting office for the Fort Severn canoe restoration project.

Fort Severn in on Northern Ontario just east of the Manitoba border near the shore of Hudson's Bay.  The community has initiated a canoe rebuild program. John and Mike have take up the pilot program which has proved succsesful enough that the community now wants it to be an ongoing program, and they want me involved.  I flew up there last weekend for a meet and greet.

The shop looks like a real happening place now, but three weeks earlier this was a garage for truck and heavy equipement, there were no tools or materials, and the canoes were spread through the community in various states of repair or disrepair.