There are plans to carve new communities out of the northern Ontario wilderness.
Groups of individual investors purchased three parcels of bushland in the Temiskaming area and plan to build villages that hundreds of people could one day call home.
But existing cities and towns are not rolling out the welcome mat, worried such communities in unincorporated areas will harm the environment and stretch local services.
Temiskaming’s municipalities want the provincial government to put a stop to it, but the would-be villagers say they’re following all the rules and working closely with the province as they plan their new homes.
Charles Sule built one of
