title

 

Alan Haig Brown collection

 

general material designation

 

[sound recording]
extent

 

1 69 MB MPEG4 audio file

 

date

 

1984-1984

 

scope and content

 

The collection consists of a sound recording of Shin Nakade recorded around 1984 by Alan Haig-Brown for research for his 1993 book Fishing For a Living.

 

biography

 

Alan Haig-Brown learned to swim in the 1950s, among the humpback salmon in the Campbell River. He seined salmon and herring until 1973, and served for eleven years as coordinator of Indian education in the Cariboo-Chilcotin. Haig-Brown became editor of the West Coast Fisherman in 1986 and later founded The West Coast Mariner and The West Coast Logger. His award-winning books for Harbour Publishing include Fishing for a Living and The Fraser River.

 


 

Taken from Harbour Publishing.

 

number

 

2012.42

 

organisation

 

Nikkei National Museum
access

 

Restricted