Notes - This is a transcript of an audio interview (Tape 1) with Mr. Joe Martynek. He speaks of his early life in Czechoslovakia and his decision to come to Canada following World War I. Many early homesteaders and farms in the Athabasca area are mentioned by name. Mr. Martynek speaks of life and work in Athabasca when he arrived there in 1926 at the age of twenty-eight (15 pages)