North - By Oscar Green

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Alice B. Donahue Library & Archives 1987
• Subjects: Personal History; Athabasca Landing; S.S. Distributor; Steamboat; 1911-; Lanson Hubbard Company; Hudson's Bay Company; Transportation; Mackenzie River Transport; Depression; Oil; First Nations; Arctic; Mackenzie River; Mackenzie river
• Online Access: http://digicon.athabascau.ca/cdm/ref/collection/AthaArch/id/1851

This is a personal account as told by Oscar Green in October, 1987. Green worked on the S.S. Distributor Steamboat on the Athabasca, Slave and Mackenzie Rivers in the 1920s and 30s. He went from preparing the steamboats for travel, to loading and unloading them, to fireman, to second mate. He tells...