CHUMMY MOVING PLUMMER'S GREAT BEAR LAKE LODGE ACROSS THE ICE IN THE 1960'S    Plummer's was the first lodge built on Great Bear in 1959 on the south side, in 1967 they moved it to the NE corner.

 

Plummer’s Great Bear Lodge was the first fishing lodge built on Great Bear Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada in 1959 on the south side of the lake.  As Bear Lake got to be well known, other operators started to build lodges to the west of Plummer’s and a mine was starting to the south.  Warren, Chummy’s Dad felt they were “starting to get hemmed in”, so in 1967 decided to move the camp to the northeast arm of Great Bear, the Dease Arm.  They were already flying guests over to fish and knew these were productive waters.  It was Warren’s idea and Chummy his son, at the time 24 years old was the one to make the move 150 miles across Bear Lake on ice roads, moving all of the buildings except the main lodge.  They made their own ice roads, there were no GPS or SAT phones when they made this move.  Chummy tells us the story of that incredible move.