Fraser changes

In case you haven’t heard, things are changing around the Law Faculty with renovations and the building of the National Centre for Indigenous Law building, where the ELC will have offices. Over the next while, we’ll share behind-the-scenes photos so you can follow the changes.

NOVEMBER 2023

As part of the Fraser building renovation project – which is separate from the construction of the National Centre of Indigenous Law (NCIL) building – all ELC staff offices moved shop at the end of August from the second floor of the Law Library to the 3^rd floor mezzanine of the Law Library. The new spaces are temporary until the NCIL is ready, hopefully next fall. The space is smaller, but we are grateful to still be in the law building and all together (even if we are right above the destruction and reconstruction of our old office space – short-term pain, right?) In the past couple of weeks, there’s also been new construction of a new heat plant, which will be near the back loading dock of the Fraser building. Suffice it to say that this fall has been a cornucopia of excavators, cement mixers, sledgehammers, and power tools!

May 2024

Construction work continues inside, outside and around the Fraser Building. While renovations are still underway inside the building (see the student lounge photo!), things are now relatively quiet in the row of temporary ELC offices in the Law Library Mezzanine (whew!) Our former offices and surrounding areas on the second floor are now a series of faculty offices, meeting spaces (with tech!), accessible washrooms, and a new kitchen and faculty workroom. Thankfully, this means no more blindly interrupting meetings when going through the Narnia door to access your lunch (if you know, you know… if you don’t, just imagine an awkward thoroughfare that also served as a ‘private’ meeting space).

Outside, there are big changes with the new National Centre for Indigenous Laws (NCIL) building, especially with the recent addition of enormous concrete walls, which were trucked in and lifted above and over the new NCIL framework with cranes. Quite the sight to behold (from a safe distance.) Inside the structure you can see numerous posts, some of which were trees on the building’s site. On the Fraser side, the large, beamed entryway is gone, and you can start to see how and where the new construction will be incorporated.