Owner of iconic La Ronge business grapples with wildfire decimation
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The iconic Robertson's Trading Post in La Ronge, Sask. went up in flames as a wildfire bore down on the northern community.
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Owner Scott Robertson is still coming to terms with the shocking loss, despite being able to save his own family cabin by staying behind and fighting the flames himself.
He showed Global News the damage the PISEW fire wrought firsthand.
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Scott Robertson said the store held a lifetime's worth of Indigenous artwork, beadwork and history.
