Though today the notion of foam housing may be seen as, in the words of one researcher, "laughably inadequate and even callous," former residents remember the experiment as an example of a spirit of collaboration in the northern communities of the 1950s. The first of these officers was James Houston, who arrived in Kinngait, Nunavut — then called Cape Dorset, N.W.T. A foam brick igloo on the rocky shores of Kinngait. As a teenager in Kinngait, Manning remembers watching local crews assemble the igloos using tar to bond the pieces. Manning, far left, and his family in one of the foam igloos.

Source: CBC News June 12, 2021 07:52 UTC