NSCC students have recreated a piece of history.
Over the past five years, the Heritage Carpentry Program at Lunenburg Campus has partnered with Kejimkujik National Park to recreate five traditional hunting cabins.
The cabins can be used by visitors instead of a tent.
Blair Lipsett from the NSCC Lunenburg Campus says they’re built as they would’ve been before the park was incorporated.
“Inside is very rough cut. You can see the frame easily. Inside there’s also bunk beds that we have that sleeps four people. And we have a shelving unit that we build, as well as a table.”
Lipsett says the program has been a great benefit to students.
“They told me that it’s amazing being in the park doing this because even though it’s technically a new build, it’s a build that is on an historic site. It’s something that speaks to why they got into the heritage carpentry program in the first place.”
Lipsett says they hope to partner with Keji on another project in the near future.
Back @ParksCanada_NS Kejimkujik National Park with @NSCC_Lunenburg Heritage Carpentry program to build another rustic cabin. pic.twitter.com/CdF8l4p6Er
— Blair Lipsett (@blairlipsett) September 14, 2017
