Long-time trades specialist Jill Rydall now training the next generation at Canadore College
Growing up as a carpenter’s daughter and working with her father in his contracting business allowed Jill Rydall to imagine herself working in the trades.
Today she is a professor and coordinator in Canadore College’s School of Trades and Technology program in North Bay.She grew up in the small town of Bar River, outside of Echo Bay and 25 kilometres east of Sault Ste. Marie. Her father operated a contracting business and employed his children. They did home renovations, exterior and interior finishes, raised houses and cottages to put new basements in, and sometimes moved them to a new foundation.
Apprenticeship is important in the trades and she started her first job with 9,000 hours of residential building experience just from working in the family business. They started her as an apprentice and quickly bumped her to a level two. “I am finally seeing more women come into my classes, but it took a lot of years,” she said. “I think social media is sharing the message that women are working in the trades and thinking, ‘Maybe I can do this.'”
Rydall helped to launch the college's pre-apprenticeship program for women, with a focus on Indigenous women in the trades. It's been running for five years.
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