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NYM LAKE, ONTARIO
Klaus Prufer (left) with Bill and Margaret Dobie at Nym Lake. Klaus was a printer at the
Atikokan Progress for several years. A year or so after this photo was taken he moved to Vancouver where his brother
lived. He built a sailboat, got married, and he and his wife sailed the boat part way to Hawaii, but they were swamped
in a storm and rescued by a Canadian Navy destroyer. Klaus was murdered in Nanaimo, BC. in October 1970.