While the P.E.I. government struggles to open its two modular emergency shelters in Charlottetown, those living in the city’s biggest tent encampment are facing the effects of sub-zero temperatures outside. | SaltWire
Dave MacDonald, who is living at the Charlottetown Event Grounds tent encampment, says he is trying to build a winterized shelter, complete with a cooking area and a furnace, to keep those at the grounds warm during the cold winter months. - Alison JenkinsCHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. — While the P.E.I. government struggles to open its two modular emergency shelters in Charlottetown, those living in the city’s biggest tent encampment are facing the effects of sub-zero temperatures outside.
“Some of the people just can’t put up with it and are coming and going,” he said. When asked where they go, MacDonald said wherever they can to get out of the cold.'We’re going to freeze:' Charlottetown police remove propane tanks, heat sources from event grounds encampmentThe encampment has access to power and heat from a donated generator, but MacDonald said the cost of fuel is getting expensive to keep it running.
Originally slated to open in mid-November, the province's modular emergency shelters are still closed. Workers could be seen preparing the shelters for power on Dec. 1. - Cody McEachern, currently being set up in a lot on Park Street, were initially slated to be open by mid-November to give unhoused people a warm place to spend the night throughout the winter.
In hopes of improving the heating situation at the encampment, Dave MacDonald says he has secured a wood-burning forced air furnace, along with the needed ducting and flue to run it in the shelter. “It was a donation. They said if I can find one, they would buy it, so I did," he says. - Alison JenkinsRegardless of when the shelters open, MacDonald said the setup won't work for a lot of the encampment’s residents.
He said he doesn’t know how that will work or what that means for the people who choose to stay at the event grounds, like him.
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