Albert Broome Interview

Albert was interviewed on September 4, 1976 in La Ronge, Saskatchewan. Ed Broome was a government employee at the time the CCF government took power. He was involved in the government trading posts that were established as part of the government's initiative [in an attempt to create better access to goods/income sustainability for Northern Indigenous communities]. He knew both James Brady and Malcolm Norris and gives brief impressions of Norris and Brady. Albert also discusses in detail commercial fishing in the early to mid-nineteen hundreds. ----------------- Keywords: Fur Trade, Resource Degradation, Fur Marketing Service, Provincial Governance, Elections