Bernard the German Grant Lawrence

Host Grant Lawrence meets Bernard the German for the first time at the Okeover government wharf at the edge of the BC wilderness near Desolation Sound. The German's towering presence is instantly intimidating and leaves Lawrence and his friends cowering. 

After a tense stand off at the Okeover government wharf, host Grant Lawrence and his friends thought they had left the menacing Bernard the German behind, until the huge man shows up uninvited in his boat in front of the Lawrence cabin in the wilds of Desolation Sound.

You'd have to go back to the late-1940s war-torn aftermath of penniless rubble and hunger in the oldest town in Germany to fully understand who Bernard the German really was, and how he eventually made it to Canada in the middle of the swingin' '60s. 

When Bernard the German arrived in Canada in the late 1960s, he was immediately the target of anti-German bullying in the Alberta capital of Edmonton. He eventually took matters into his own hands... or feet... as it were. 

Bernard the German shook the Alberta dust once and for all and moved his young family to the West Coast where he took up work at the docks, always possessed to own a waterfront cabin in the wilderness. A one-line ad in the newspaper led him to Desolation Sound, BC.

Bernard the German is viciously attacked by several of the creatures that roam the dense woods behind his Desolation Sound cabin.