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 Harold Lokken was of Norwegian heritage and came to the Yukon about 1904 from Wisconsin where he had trained as a cabinet maker.((H.S. Bostock, //Pack Horse Tracks – recollections of a geologists life in British Columbia and the Yukon 1924 – 1954.// Yukon Geoscience Forum, 1990: 68.)) He first went into the woodcutting business with Albert Hendrickson, near the village of Big Salmon. When the government put in a telegraph line and a Northwest Mounted Police post at the Big Salmon, Lokken became the lineman between there and Yukon Crossing.((Delores Smith, “H.O. Lokken: a Yukon wilderness legend.” //The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 3 January 1996.)) Harold Lokken was of Norwegian heritage and came to the Yukon about 1904 from Wisconsin where he had trained as a cabinet maker.((H.S. Bostock, //Pack Horse Tracks – recollections of a geologists life in British Columbia and the Yukon 1924 – 1954.// Yukon Geoscience Forum, 1990: 68.)) He first went into the woodcutting business with Albert Hendrickson, near the village of Big Salmon. When the government put in a telegraph line and a Northwest Mounted Police post at the Big Salmon, Lokken became the lineman between there and Yukon Crossing.((Delores Smith, “H.O. Lokken: a Yukon wilderness legend.” //The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 3 January 1996.))
 The Big Salmon telegraph building was moved to Carmacks by raft in 1915. This was joined with a rear addition made with a building moved from Yukon Crossing in the same year. Lokken surrounded the station with a picket fence while he waited for the regular operator, Howard MacMillan, to arrive. Lokken then returned to Yukon Crossing where he was working.((Finlay McRae, Land Inspector, 1980, Yukon Heritage Branch files.))  The Big Salmon telegraph building was moved to Carmacks by raft in 1915. This was joined with a rear addition made with a building moved from Yukon Crossing in the same year. Lokken surrounded the station with a picket fence while he waited for the regular operator, Howard MacMillan, to arrive. Lokken then returned to Yukon Crossing where he was working.((Finlay McRae, Land Inspector, 1980, Yukon Heritage Branch files.)) 
-Lokken operated the telegraph and ran the Yukon Crossing roadhouse. (H.S. Bostock, Pack Horse Tracks – recollections of a geologists life in British Columbia and the Yukon 1924 – 1954. Yukon Geoscience Forum, 1990: 68.) He was known for making excellent snowshoes.((The Ven. Cecil Swanson, //The Days of My Sojourning.// Calgary: Glenbow-Alberta Institute, 1977: 16.))+Lokken operated the telegraph and ran the Yukon Crossing roadhouse.((H.S. Bostock, Pack Horse Tracks – recollections of a geologists life in British Columbia and the Yukon 1924 – 1954. Yukon Geoscience Forum, 1990: 68.)) He was known for making excellent snowshoes.((The Ven. Cecil Swanson, //The Days of My Sojourning.// Calgary: Glenbow-Alberta Institute, 1977: 16.))
  
 By 1919, Lokken was guiding hunting parties out of Carmacks. He was a summer guide for the American multi-millionaire Packard who on doctor’s orders took an annual trip north to get fresh air. Their base camp was Packard Point on Quiet Lake. Packard fished and his son and Lokken hunted and took photographs. Packard had a number of rifles made to his design and two were given to Lokken.((H.S. Bostock, //Pack Horse Tracks – recollections of a geologists life in British Columbia and the Yukon 1924 – 1954.// Yukon Geoscience Forum, 1990: 68.)) Lokken was a gun collector and spent much time making handmade hardwood gun stocks.((Yukon Archives, Back Coll. 90/19-2 PHO 389 #78 and Pauline LePage interview, Yukon History Aural History Project))  By 1919, Lokken was guiding hunting parties out of Carmacks. He was a summer guide for the American multi-millionaire Packard who on doctor’s orders took an annual trip north to get fresh air. Their base camp was Packard Point on Quiet Lake. Packard fished and his son and Lokken hunted and took photographs. Packard had a number of rifles made to his design and two were given to Lokken.((H.S. Bostock, //Pack Horse Tracks – recollections of a geologists life in British Columbia and the Yukon 1924 – 1954.// Yukon Geoscience Forum, 1990: 68.)) Lokken was a gun collector and spent much time making handmade hardwood gun stocks.((Yukon Archives, Back Coll. 90/19-2 PHO 389 #78 and Pauline LePage interview, Yukon History Aural History Project)) 
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