By the end of the first day of building, we had set up the base. With the freezing temperatures, short days and the rush to set up the yurt, we called it “extreme yurt-building.” The walls are six ...

We get an early start back to Toronto. The yurt-building was a success, but we leave Attawapiskat with a deeper sense of the support the community needs. It is early in the morning on Tuesday, ...

Larivee hopes that in two or three years, he, his wife, and their two children will move into a yurt. Larivee, owner of a 100-acre homestead, started building yurts in 2008 due to his interest in ...