Biographie
He fished with his father in the Lofoten Islands off the coast of Norway as a young man.
In 1888 he left for Sioux City Iowa USA intending to work on the railway. A few years later he did some gillnet fishing on the Fraser River.
He pre-empted 200 acres of land in Tofino BC in 1893.
He built a log cabin and settled on the site of the airport next to Grice Bay near Pacific Rim National Park.
He was the eldest of five brothers: Jacob, Cristopher, August, Sophus, Martin.
He was one of the first commercial fishermen catching Sockeye salmon at Gold River - salting the fish because there were no canneries at that time. The brothers made their own barrels by hand. Later they built their own purse seine nets and carved cedar floats to buoy up the nets.
In 1895 he headed a delegation asking the Provincial Government to build a road to the east part of Vancouver Island.
He was the first Chairman of the Village Municipalityand re-elected by acclamation 1932-1936.
He was the Coxswain of the Tofino Lifeboat .
Références
Nicholson, George (1965)
