Item AAAB3053 - Erik Viksten interview

CALL NUMBER: T2797:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): An immigrant's life in the Depression : homesteading at Horsefly Lake RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Erik Viksten's family in Sweden; their dairy farm; immigration to Canada in 1928; special difficulties of life during the Depression for an immigrant; various jobs on the prairies and BC in carpentry, mining and ranching. TRACK 2: Arrival in Horsefly; first visit to [his] brothers' in Horsefly in 1937; fishing on Horsefly Lake; lodge on Horsefly Lake; the south shore of Horsefly Lake, 1948; first resident on the south shore of Horsefly Lake; salmon hatcheries at Horsefly; those who worked there; the operation; winter on the lake; travel.

CALL NUMBER: T2797:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Life at Horsefly Lake in the 1950s and 1960s RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Boat building on Horsefly Lake; how Erik became involved in boat building; technicalities of boat building with the facilities Erik had on the lake. Life on Horsefly Lake during the 1950s; trappers in the winter time; Erik trapped one winter. TRACK 2: People living one the lake cutting ice in winter to preserve food. Travel in the winter. Erik made skis on which he travelled into Horsefly. What Erik remembers of Horsefly in 1948: the general store; the old-timers who gathered at the store to tell stories. Erik tells a trapping story that involved John Larson, Jack Grahame, and himself.