ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the everyday geographical experience of workers at the Romaine River hydroelectric project on the North Shore (Québec, Canada) to better understand the ways of dwelling in work camps and worksites of northern resource development megaprojects. It is based on in-depth interviews with both Indigenous and non-Indigenous workers, regional and extra-regional. The chapter reveals that beyond the rigid structures and seeming monotony of the everyday life at the work camp, the workers are continuously renegotiating conditions at the remote work site in which they live and cohabit in very close quarters. It demonstrates that on major construction sites in the North, relationships that bring into play mobility, otherness, and habitat are highly conditioned by geographical remoteness. Regardless of whether this remoteness constitutes a constraint or an opportunity, it forms an integral part of the lives of workers.
