This article focuses on the everyday geographical experience of workers at the Romaine hydroelectric project on the North Shore (Québec) to better understand ways of dwelling in workcamps and worksites of northern resource development megaprojects. Using a qualitative approach based on in-depth interviews with both Indigenous and non-Indigenous workers, regional and extra-regional, we study four interdependent components of ways of dwelling on the remote worksite and its camps : work, mobility, living together, habitat. The transversal reading of the workers’ diverse experiences–positive or otherwise–leads to an original typology of modes of dwelling that intersects their profile and their sense of place : the shelter (or home), the workshop, the gilded prison, the penitentiary, the stopover. Our analysis reveals that beyond a neoliberal model of resource development based on pragmatism and productivity, that imposes a rigid structure and firmly established routines on the workers, a picture emerges of differing relations with the worksite and with colleagues of various geographical and cultural origins.