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You've reached houseoftools.ca, a small fan site about Western Canadian construction jobs and old shop tools. And by "fan site" I mean none of us worked for the original House of Tools chain that closed down in 2009 or run houseoftools.net... we just liked the old stores, we don't have any social accounts... and blah, blah, blah.

Our 12 Western Canadian Writers.

Twelve of us from BC out to Manitoba swap turns posting one short story a day in random order. Sometimes the same person posts two days in a row when they've got extra job-site pictures, like Priya Sandhu in Burnaby, Devon Dhaliwal in Surrey, Callum Pritchard in Victoria, Trevor Sawatzky in Kelowna and Rory O'Shea in Fort Saint John.

Across Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and the North you'll read Gord Halvorsen in Calgary, Tessa MacLeod in Edmonton, Curtis Boucher in Red Deer, Wally Bergen in Lethbridge, Marlene Kowalski in Saskatoon, Nadine Pelletier in Winnipeg and Jenna Flett up in Yellowknife.

Please double check anything you read on here before taking our word for it! No part of this fan website is legally binding, we never post construction or engineering advice, and we never tell anyone how to do a building job.