Timothy Olson

You will enjoy my brother Dave’s two stories about his time working out of Waterfall on a cannery tender.  The stories are also available in BONDED BY WATER, a memoir Dave published in 2014.  Dave was the first of the four Olson boys to work for NAKAT from 1948 until my last season with NAKAT in 1968.  Dave’s first story is about a a grounding in a storm and the second story (Coming Post) is a fun story about dog mascot on a tender.  

After my two seasons with Severin on the Rap III, I joined the Alaska Fishermen’s Union in Seattle and during the last three years of traps, I worked on a cannery tender for Nakat Packing Corporation. I came north in the summer and picked up my wages in Seattle in the fall.  I was young, eager and working on boats became a lifelong practice that I yearned to return to every spring.

In 1957 I turned I turned 18, joined the Alaska Fishermen’s Union, and hired on as a deckhand on a power scow fish tender owned by NAKAT PACKING COMPANY. Join me on the Rolfy and in Waterfall Cannery for the final seasons of salmon traps in Southeastern Alaska.

Lorelie relishes her life as an “Old Gardener.” Daily she checks on the health of her plants, tending them with her years of experience in creating beautiful gardens. Lorelie lives the personal characteristics illustrated in Cathy’s poem.