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Homeless woman fined for building her own home Darlene Necan says she’s been made to feel ‘awful’ for trying to house herself
By Jody Porter, CBC News Posted: Nov 07, 2014 6:00 AM ET Last Updated: Nov
07, 2014 3:32 PM ET
“This is my castle and I’m so proud to have it,” Darlene Necan says of the one-room house she built with donated materials on the same spot where she grew up. (Jody Porter/CBC)
A First Nations woman in Northern Ontario faces thousands of dollars in fines and a stop-work order on the cabin she is attempting to build in the place where she grew up.​
Darlene Necan is a member of the Ojibways of Saugeen First Nation, but she’s been unable to acquire housing in that community, about 400 kilometres northwest of Thunder Bay, since the reserve was created in the late 1990s.
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Last year, Necan began building with donated materials on land where her family home once stood, 20 kilometres south of her reserve, in the unorganized township of Savant Lake, Ont.
“This is my castle and I’m so proud to have it, even though it’s not done yet,” Necan said during a recent visit to the one-room, plywood house she is not allowed to live in. Darlene Necan cabin interior
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