Posted: May 13, 2021 8:00 AM CT | Last Updated: May 13
Annette Mason, centre, helps evacuees from Jean Marie River at the front desk of the Snowshoe Inn in Fort Providence, N.W.T.(Travis Burke/CBC)
Annette Mason and the staff at Fort Providence's Snowshoe Inn in Northwest Territories started preparing for possible flood evacuees on May 7, when reports of flooding started coming from nearby Jean Marie River.
By Saturday night, it was "all hands on deck" for Mason, two volunteer staff and the handful of housekeepers at the inn, as evacuees started rolling in at all hours of the night.
"We just had to welcome them with open arms," Mason, the hotel's manager, told CBC.