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The Heartbeat of Reconciliation: “Your Dad and Auntie were such good friends”

The Heartbeat of Reconciliation: “Your Dad and Auntie were such good friends”

My dad, Stefan Sigurdson, passed away in 2012. Our close collaboration in the years prior to his death was invaluable to me in writing Vikings On a Prairie Ocean, published in 2014. It enabled me to ground the book confident in its detail and...

19th March 2018 Glenn Sigurdson Family, fishing, Friendship, history, Lake Winnipeg, Short Stories, Sigurdson, Vikings on a Prairie Ocean 1479 3 Comments
“Freezing Out” – The Fishermens’ Fishermen

“Freezing Out” – The Fishermens’ Fishermen

As a boy when I heard that Afi Malli and Uncle Grimsi were “freezing out “it always sounded to my young ears as a mysterious adventure. I would soon learn that they were one of the lonely breeds of fishermen who would stay North in their camps...

4th September 2017 Glenn Sigurdson fishing, Lake Winnipeg 1320 1 Comments
Snapshots of a Heritage

Snapshots of a Heritage

Life day to day on Lake Winnipeg in my life – but a world that few know of then, or today, but even less so in a history that reaches back into the 1880s. The emergence of a commercial fishery in 1882 and following was the cornerstone of...

22nd August 2017 Glenn Sigurdson First Nations, fishing, Lake Winnipeg 774 0 Comments

Vancouver Sun Features Vikings’ “Fishing For Memories”

On December 18, The Vancouver Sun published a Q&A with Glenn Sigurdson, exploring the writing process behind Vikings on a Prairie Ocean, and the relationship between his family history, memories, and lifetime career. Such questions include...

21st December 2015 Zoe Canada, Family, fishing, history, Media, Vancouver Sun, Vikings on a Prairie Ocean, Winnipeg 1014 0 Comments
About Glenn Sigurdson
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Writing Vikings on a Prairie Ocean heightened my awareness that the people, places, and influences from a boyhood growing up in a legendary Lake Winnipeg fishing family had shaped and informed my work, and gave me more accessible, and compelling words and ways to describe it.
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