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Article: Slough dance: a Fraser River backwater in British Columbia offered Finnish immigrants salmon and a timeless way of life. (Home Towns).(Finn Slough)
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- National Fisherman
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- June 1, 2003
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A wooden footbridge spans Finn Slough, a quiet backwater near the mouth of the Fraser River, on south coast of British Columbia. A boardwalk leads past houses built on stilts.
"Are you lookin' for somebody?" a beachcomber asks, standing up in his aluminum skiff.
"I'm looking for Al Mason," I answer.
"He lives back there," the beachcomber says, pointing down the boardwalk.
Beachcombing--picking up logs that escape from booms being towed Up the Fraser to sawmills--is one way of making a living on the river. But it was salmon and a safe harbor that attracted Gus Jacobson's grandfather, Mike Jacobson, 1887.
Mike Jacobson stuck ...