Everything we’re going to get from the North,” said Tony, who described creating northern jobs through building log homes as his dream. “So we’ll get into building log homes for the North, built in the North. In Behchokǫ̀, Lafferty’s uncle says he’s excited to start working with his nephew once he gets back. Ultimately, he imagines people without adequate homes being able to harvest logs and build something of their own, “and have a sense of ownership, too, and move into a house that they could actually maintain.” He plans to team up with his uncle, Tony Lafferty, who has owned a sawmill for the past 23 years. His crew in Behchokǫ̀ has been harvesting logs in preparation for the first log home build.

Lafferty is also planning on building some log cabins himself. Students at the Unbeatable School of Log Construction work on log homes for clients of Schwaller. “Something I always wanted to do is to be working with the Timber King,” said Lafferty, who added he had watched some of the HGTV show “here and there.” Now, at 33, he decided to develop his passion for log homes when he found the course online and was able to acquire some funding from the Tłįchǫ Government. “I’ve been working with timber basically all my life.” “All our lives we’ve been hauling firewood, cutting trees, and never had a furnace in our home,” he said. Lafferty, who has worked as a carpenter since he was a teenager, said he grew up working on the land with his family.

But they just need some training to actually build a log home, and I plan to bring training there,” Lafferty said. “Most of the guys, they’re into this kind of work already.

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