Living In A Tent On Gordon Lake Kay Muir

 

I first experienced life North of 60 in the summer of 1937 when my husband Ken and I lived in a tent on the shore of Gordon Lake, which was about a 30 minute ride in a bush plane away from Yellowknife. The property was called Camlaren, named for the prospectors who had staked it, Don Cameron and the McLaren brothers.

It was truly a canvas compound. The 50 or so men, the staff, even the cookhouse were all contained in tents. It was surely a new experience for me as before I married a mining engineer I lived only in big cities.

But it was very exciting – the beginning of the Yellowknife Boom. We were constantly surprised by visitors arriving in very official looking planes.