The photo in the middle shows Alfie Albo cruising up the Arrow Lake from Syringa Creek in June, 1952 in the Aldon. The boat was named for Alfie and Don Ventura who helped Alfie get the boat. Alfie bought it for $400.00 and had the cabin built on it (it started it's life on the Thames in England as an open boat). He bought it at Crescent Bay on Kootenay Lake around 1939 to 1941, from a man named Ivar Fosheim who said he had been with Roald Amundsen on an expedition, so I had to look into that. This is what I know for sure so far: Ivar Fosheim was born in 1864 in Røn, Norway, and lived in Valdres, Norway. He came to Canada in 1919, landing at Ellis Island, New York, on 24 June aboard the ship Bergensfjord and went to Calgary, Alberta, then settled at Crescent Beach on Kootenay Lake, BC. He returned to Røn briefly and established a sanitarium, then returned to Crescent Beach. He died in the Trail (BC) Hospital on 18 April, 1944. The photo on the left shows Ivar in his garden at Crescent Bay about 1930 (it came from the Eugene and Mary Hird collection, who were friends of Ivar's and was given to me by their daughter, Louise Myers). He was well known for his garden.
      From 1898 to 1902 he, along with Otto Sverdrup, charted a huge area of the Arctic during the Sverdrup Expedition (also known as the Second Fram Expedition). During this expedition they charted more new land (160,000 square kms) than any other polar expedition in history. They originally planned to sail the Fram up the west coast of Greenland as far as possible and then use dog sled to go up along the north coast and then down along the east coast. But they got iced in early and stayed iced in for 4 years, so they turned their attention to Ellesmere Island instead. Fosheim Peninsula on Ellesmere Island is named after Ivar. The photo on the right shows the telescope Ivar used on that expedition (Ivar had given it to Eugene and Mary Hird and Louise now has it)
      I was in touch with the Tromsøe Museum in Norway, and they said they have no record of him ever having been on an expedition with Raould Amundsen, but the woman who edited Ivar's diary said that he also accompanied Sverdrup on a Walrus hunting expedition to Davis Strait in 1910.