Carlton Trail plans to add a 4,000 square foot addition to its technical building in Humboldt. (submitted photo/Carlton Trail College)

By Doug Lett

Carlton Trail expansion

Carlton Trail plans trades expansion

Mar 28, 2023 | 8:54 AM

Carlton Trail College is getting $800,000 from the latest provincial budget to expand trades training in the northeast.

The money will be used for a 4,000 square foot addition to the College’s regional trades training facility in Humboldt.

“This is just really timely for us…they need more trades people in the province. So this will fit in nicely,” said Amy Yeager, president and CEO of Carlton Trail College.

The facility is the college’s main trades training building, with shop and classroom space. It’s used by students with Carlton Trail, but also secondary students from the Horizon School division, to expose high school students to the trades.

Trades taught include welding, electrical, industrial mechanics and more.

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Yeager said with growing investment in mining and agriculture, the region is going to need more tradespeople.

“Our space is at full capacity,” she said. “So this (expansion) will enable us to offer more.”

“We don’t currently offer any construction related programming so we’d like to do that, like an introduction to carpentry. It will also be a flexible space to allow us to bring in equipment, ag equipment these types of things because the shop space will be big enough.”

Yeager added the money from the province will go toward expanding the building. But if more equipment is needed for the larger space, the money for will have to come from somewhere else, she said.

“We will either have to pay for it ourselves or hopefully partner with other business and industry businesses to garner some additional funding,” she said.

In a news release, the College says plans for the expansion will be finalized over the coming weeks, with construction starting mid year. Yeager said the expansion will be finished roughly a year from now.

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Twitter: @DougLettSK