Anger Overcame My Fear of The Bear Hilda Mcintyre

 

I was still a teenager when I went north to Yellowknife in 1943. My first job there was as cook/manager of George Harvey’s Squeeze In Café. The café was located in the “Old Town” on Latham Island.

When George Harvey sold the café about two years later I accepted a better paying job with Paul Glidden. This job was that of camp cook for about a dozen men in Mr. Glidden’s exploration camp located on the shores of Indin Lake some 100 to 150 miles north of Yellowknife.

My living quarters, which I shared with my little dog Elmer, a miniature Spitz, were a smaller tent attached to the back end of the kitchen.

I had to keep an eye on the little dog because the wolves often prowled around the camp and he would become very excited and bark to go out and chase them. He would have made only a mouthful for those hungry creatures.