Perched trades
sky walkers
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Zackary Diabo Teiorahkwateh, apprentice at the Montreal School of Steel Trades.
© Vincent Resseguier
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They are poetically called "sky walkers", but they have a hard job, perched on scaffolding or building structures.
They build skyscrapers, bridges or stadiums.
These steel workers, as we say in North America, come from indigenous communities, where the profession is passed down from father to son.
A report by Vincent Rességuier of Radio Canada in a training center in Montreal.
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