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Music was the Voice Of Riverton

Music was the Voice Of Riverton

Like the presence of the rink and the inspiration it created, music was part of everyone’s life. Nothing better epitomized the “mustang” spirit just below the surface in the community than the remarkable New Year’s Eve dance.

13th May 2020 Glenn Sigurdson Fishermen, Lake Winnipeg, Music 0 Comments

When Knowledge Came with a Knock

When Knowledge Came with a Knock

Encyclopedias, a cultural icon of the 20th century, were in almost every home. With the post-millennial generation, they silently slipped into obscurity and the dustbin of history. Encyclopedias touched our lives in many ways, whether it was to...

10th March 2020 Glenn Sigurdson Career, Family, First Nations, fishing, history, Iceland, Lake Winnipeg, Short Stories, Sigurdson, Vikings on a Prairie Ocean 0 Comments

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 0 Comments

Sigurdson Island

Sigurdson Island

“Sigurdson Island “ at the mouth of the Berens River, was a magical place for a young boy. As a little guy in the early 50’s each summer we would “Go North” to join Dad at the station for summer fishing. Sigurdson Fisheries had a long association...

14th March 2018 Glenn Sigurdson Family, Lake Winnipeg 2 Comments

Black bear

Black bear

Now we are on an expedition. We are going to go from black bear to rabbit point. It is about 4 miles. If there is any hint of a wind coming up I am reluctant to take our small boat across the lake.

26th September 2017 Glenn Sigurdson Friendship, Lake Winnipeg 0 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 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 0 Comments

Where Have All The Whitefish Gone… A Long Time Passing

Where Have All The Whitefish Gone… A Long Time Passing

This article was first published in Logberg Heimskringla. Billy Valgardson, my longtime friend, once a teacher and often a mentor, has a gift for pressing hot buttons in my emotional library. Recently, on Facebook, he managed to do so again with...

19th January 2016 Glenn Sigurdson Career, fishing, Lake Winnipeg, Short Stories, Vikings on a Prairie Ocean 1 Comments

The Power of Human Connection

As I was writing Vikings on a Prairie Ocean, several pieces that I had written as fictionalized accounts based on historical facts did not find their way into the final manuscript and I now publish them on this web site as a mini-series sequel...

14th January 2016 Glenn Sigurdson history, Iceland, Lake Winnipeg, Short Stories 0 Comments

“I’ll just go back fishing in Hecla”

As I was writing Vikings on a Prairie Ocean, several pieces that I had written as fictionalized accounts based on historical facts did not find their way into the final manuscript and I now publish them on this web site as a mini-series sequel...

27th December 2014 Glenn Sigurdson Career, Family, First Nations, fishing, history, Iceland, Lake Winnipeg, Short Stories, Sigurdson, Vikings on a Prairie Ocean 0 Comments

Thank God for the Fish

As I was writing Vikings on a Prairie Ocean, several pieces that I had written as fictionalized accounts based on historical facts did not find their way into the final manuscript and I now publish them on this web site as a mini-series sequel. …...

23rd December 2014 Glenn Sigurdson Career, Family, First Nations, fishing, history, Iceland, Lake Winnipeg, Short Stories, Sigurdson, Vikings on a Prairie Ocean 0 Comments
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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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