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Louie, a very energetic Carpenter Apprentice, learned his craft through a job creation program he was in at Wabigoon Lake First Nation when he was young. He did a lot of schooling, training courses with Rick Hill and Bill Cooke, of Bill Cooke Construction. He's done heavy equipment work and lots of construction experience he says.

Today Louie has 21,000 hours from 11 years of work first at Wabigoon Lake First Nation, later in Sioux Lookout at Northlite Glass and in Dryden at Wynnwood glass and "all over."

Louie didn't pass his C of Q exam. He said it was the terminology that got him so he's been studying and preparing to challenge the exam again. He said the Union told him not to sign his apprentice papers, but instead to take a one week course with them and then go for his Red Seal that way. It'll be better that way, he says confidently.

Louie currently works at the Hostel work site with Vermet Construction. His advice to would be challengers of the C of Q: Go to school first, he says, then get that Red Seal! Learn the language!