Audio Interview with Mr. Al Cramer

• Other Authors: (Author), Robert Tannas (Interviewer), (Publisher)
• Format: Audio
• Language: English
• Published: 1981
• Subjects: Trapping > Lac La Biche River > Homesteading > Settler > Hudson's Bay > Whiskey Smuggling > Business > Building > Personal History > McKay River > Calling River > Telegraph Station > Athabasca River; Athabasca River; Lac la Biche
• Online Access: https://arcabc.ca/islandora/object/au%3A8354/datastream/OBJ/download; http://digicon.athabascau.ca/cdm/ref/collection/AthaArch/id/1625; https://arcabc.ca/islandora/object/au%3A8354

Audio - Mr. Al Cramer talks about his time as a trapper, fur trader and farmer in Athabasca during the first few decades of the twentieth century. He describes trapping wolves for a ten dollar bounty, trapping foxes on McKay River and on a farm at Calling River, as well as the abundance of bears and moose in the area at the time. Mr. Cramer uses a map to point out the telegraph stations on the Athabasca River and to discuss the times and routes that the river pilots took Mr. Cramer answered questions put to him by Mr. Tannas very, quietly. Difficult to hear.