Tenants given one week to move out of historic rural Manitoba apartment
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More than a dozen people in a rural Manitoba community have been told they need to move out of their apartment building in one week before the power is turned off.
More than a dozen people in a rural Manitoba community have been told they need to move out of their apartment building in one week before the power is turned off.
In St. Jean Baptiste, the apartment building at 144 Caron Street has a historical designation. The building was constructed between 1897 and 1898 as the Covent of the Sisters of The Holy Names of Jesus and Mary.
Ed Heidebrecht now owns the building, which was converted into affordable apartments before he bought it a year ago. He has been adding nine more apartment suites to the nine it already has.
“It’s lots of work to do to have safe and beautiful (suites), and people come enjoy this,” Heidebrecht said.
Tenant Adonis Dubois said he was concerned about the work being done and called the Rural Municipality of Montcalm, where St. Jena Baptiste is located.
“It came out that he was doing all of this work, electrical, he ran hydro, he did plumbing without building permits,” Dubois said.
Those apartments aren't all up to code, and the RM wants changes.
