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Construction
Smith Falls: after
The Szabo’s plight became a major story in the Ottawa Citizen newspaper. With Community volunteer support and donations of material, labour, furniture, and household items, Frontiers Foundation built the Szabo’s a brand new certified R 2000 house.
In December 2000 the Szabo family moved into their new three bedroom home.
Smith Falls: before
The Szabo family’ spent seven winters living in a cramped, abandoned old bus with only a small oil stove for heat. In 1998 Canadian soldiers, searching near Smiths Falls for victims of the ice storm stumbled upon the Szabo family freezing in an old school bus.
Split Lake, Manitoba - First Operation Beaver project
The first Operation Beaver project was in 1964 where a new Anglican church was built at Split Lake, Manitoba.
God's lake Narrows 1955 - Charles Catto and Cree family
Charles Catto, Frontiers Foundation founder, with a Cree family in front of their home.
In 1955, God’s Lake Narrows was a small, isolated, poor Aboriginal Cree community. Located in northern Manitoba. Standard homes consisted of dilapidated shacks without hydro, tap water or indoor toilets.
Charles Catto, the Founding Director of Frontiers Foundation Inc. was a newly ordained United Church minister and whose first ministry was at God’s Lake Narrows, Manitoba.
Manitoba would later become the site of the first Operation Beaver project.
God's Lake Narrows 1955
In 1955, God’s Lake Narrows was a small, isolated, poor Aboriginal Cree community. Located in northern Manitoba. Standard homes consisted of dilapidated shacks without hydro, tap water or indoor toilets.
Typical aboriginal housing 1963
Typical Aboriginal housing of its day. Picture of a Cree family at Oxford House, Manitoba, courtesy of Toronto Telegram newspaper, 1963.
Moricetown: after
In 1978 a new subdivision was undertaken, with funding provided by Indian Affairs, the Moricetown Band and Frontiers Operation Beaver. By 1984 there were forty-six new log homes built, all according to the national Building Code. The new subdivision was named “Beaver Road.”