New Faces New Places: Decades-long friendship leads to flooring company in support of Indigenous communities – Saskatoon StarPhoenix
Oct 23, 2020
Our focus is actually really training and educating people within Indigenous communities.
New local businesses and non-profit organizations open regularly in Saskatoon. Today, we talk to Tarrant Cross Child and Christian Braid, who opened Prairie Flooring together in January 2019 with a focus on creating meaningful training and employment opportunities for Indigenous people. The company launched its Prairie Run Crew Outreach program this spring, which hosts free running clinics across the province.
Cross Child and Braid have known each other for over two decades, having once worked together in Braid Flooring & Window Fashions — a company now owned by Braid and, previously, by Braid’s father. Alcohol addiction problems sidetracked Cross Child from work and life in 2014 and he spent a year in a residential rehabilitation program. Once he got his life back on track, he and Braid to joined forces again.
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