KEY CONCEPTS: adaptability, community links, self-reliance, cooperative and responsive management
This small business in rural Yukon was established during the boom-days of the 1970s, when the pipeline and road building provided a heavy demand for services and skilled labour in the region. Since those heady days, this business has succeed by scaling its services to adapt to changing demand, but maintaining links to key personnel in the community who can provide essential services when the demand is present.
Disabilities were not a barrier to employment with this small business. The owner operators themselves identified that they would not hesitate to hire a person with a disability as long as they were able to do the job. A regular employee with the business has an identifiable disability and receives no formal accommodations, but rather is supported in his work through understanding and cooperation with the business owners.
A theme that ran through this discussion with the small business owner was one of self reliance and independence in work and life, where people cooperate as employees and business owners to get the job done. 
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