Buy a Chainsaw and a Chainsaw-mill. Build log cabin. Heat it with wood. Build an outhouse.
With whatever money you have, you want to spend it on: the best most efficient wood-stove money can buy, a quality propane fridge/freezer & stove & propane lights, and quality very well-insulated metal roof.
Everything else comes after, slowly with time. You can jury rig a simple water system. You can jury-rig a simple septic system. You can eventually hook up to the electric grid if you choose.
You need at least 2-acres, preferably on a body of water. You can build a 750sq-ft cabin for less than 10 grand if you do it all yourself. I'd send you a picture of my recreational cabin if it wouldn't immediately doxx me.
There are houses all throughout Edmonton, Calgary, Victoria that still have knob & tube wiring. Asbestos insulation. etc etc Not just houses. Skyscrapers. Hotels.
I don't know much about east Canada, but I have a hard time believing your story. If he is 50km away from the nearest Hamlet, he is not in a 'municipality'.
Seems awfully odd to me. Sounds to me like the cabin is actually located in a formal community.
In BC we have municipalities (pick a word out of the dictionary - township, town, village, hamlet, city, etc) that are defined by specific boundaries and then we have vast regions we call Regional Districts that are on the order of 10's of thousands to 100's of thousands of square kilometers.
Generally speaking in a Regional District you get no services - fire, water, sewer, ambulance, but you are exempt from anything but the most common sense of rules for rural and/or agricultural living.
Buy a Chainsaw and a Chainsaw-mill. Build log cabin. Heat it with wood. Build an outhouse.
With whatever money you have, you want to spend it on: the best most efficient wood-stove money can buy, a quality propane fridge/freezer & stove & propane lights, and quality very well-insulated metal roof.
Everything else comes after, slowly with time. You can jury rig a simple water system. You can jury-rig a simple septic system. You can eventually hook up to the electric grid if you choose.
You need at least 2-acres, preferably on a body of water. You can build a 750sq-ft cabin for less than 10 grand if you do it all yourself. I'd send you a picture of my recreational cabin if it wouldn't immediately doxx me.
Seems like he should be grandfathered in, no?
There are houses all throughout Edmonton, Calgary, Victoria that still have knob & tube wiring. Asbestos insulation. etc etc Not just houses. Skyscrapers. Hotels.
I don't know much about east Canada, but I have a hard time believing your story. If he is 50km away from the nearest Hamlet, he is not in a 'municipality'.
Seems awfully odd to me. Sounds to me like the cabin is actually located in a formal community.
In BC we have municipalities (pick a word out of the dictionary - township, town, village, hamlet, city, etc) that are defined by specific boundaries and then we have vast regions we call Regional Districts that are on the order of 10's of thousands to 100's of thousands of square kilometers.
Generally speaking in a Regional District you get no services - fire, water, sewer, ambulance, but you are exempt from anything but the most common sense of rules for rural and/or agricultural living.