Northwest Indigenous group vows to rebuild after fire destroys training centre – Northern Ontario Business
July 22, 2025
Sioux Lookout Area Aboriginal Management Board looks to industry for help to replace lost equipment
In early spring, carpentry students in Hudson, in northwestern Ontario, were in the process of putting the finishing touches on their brand-new training centre when a noon-hour fire broke out, reducing the building to rubble.
No one was hurt in the June 4 blaze — the students were all on lunch break and no people were in the building at the time — but the entire facility was destroyed and years of work lost.
Still, Ziggy Beardy, project manager with the Sioux Lookout Area Aboriginal Management Board (SLAAMB), which hosts the program, knows it could have been much worse.
