Histories of Anchorage: There was indeed a man named Joe Spenard, a notable figure in the earliest days of Anchorage, but most people don’t know the details.
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Joseph “Joe” Arthur Spenard was born in 1879 in Ottawa, Ontario, to French Canadian parents. His Canadian life is essentially a mystery, and he doesn’t make a real mark on the historical record until the early 1900s. By 1906, he was living in California, where he married Edith Lewellyn. Together, they journeyed north to Valdez in 1909.
In the spring of 1916, Joe and Edith moved to Anchorage, forever in search of that booming edge of society where fortunes could most quickly be acquired. City Express remained his primary business. His REO Speedwagon truck did double duty as a volunteer vehicle for the city fire department. The department was small enough that the rest of their equipment fit within two carts.
He also illegally blazed a road and cleared the trees around the lake, through and within a national forest. He then sold much of the ill-gotten lumber. Despite his assertions to the contrary, he never filed a claim for a homestead around what became Lake Spenard. He was a squatter. In short, Joe Spenard was the type of guy who never let anything so mundane as social niceties or laws interfere with making a buck.
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