For five years, Spurgeon Root has taught many life lessons to youth in this workshop, but now those lessons will have to be put on hold.

"I heard that there had been a fire at the shop and I came back to find this,” Spurgeon Root, Director of Outreach Ministries told CTV News. “I’m more emotional today than I was yesterday."

Around 5:00 Tuesday morning, a fire broke out at this workshop at 766 Angus St. What was once a shop where youth learned how to build canoes and coffee tables is now all a pile of rubble. Everything in the workshop is a total loss with more than one hundred thousand dollars in damage.

"A lot of relief that it was just stuff. But then secondly, you start thinking about well now what?" Root said.

No one was hurt in the fire but Root says there were many items inside the building that cannot be replaced.

"You know right here was a painting that a friend had done and a pair of snow shoes he made, he was a friend up north and we worked together, we took kids from the inner city out on canoe trips together and he passed away from cancer."

Mike Gerrand is the Director of Operations with Street Culture Project. He says more than one hundred young people have used the workshop this year alone and adds losing it, leaves a hole in the community.

"I was really saddened to hear that. Our kids have been accessing that space for programming and they’ve worked on various projects from pallet furniture to bird houses to sometimes they even cut the grass over there too."

The fire department is still investigating the cause of the fire but add the Regina Police Service is now investigating.