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Allard, A.B., d. 1967

Lt. Col. A.B. Allard served as Chief Superintendent of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in the Yukon Territory, 1926-1927, and 1931-1934. During these stints of service he, his wife and daughter, Dorothy lived in the commanding officer's residence in Dawson City. Lt. Col. Allard died in 1967.

McCullum, A.C., 1896-1970

Reverend Arthur Creighton McCullum was an Anglican Parish Priest in the Yukon Territory from 1925 to 1940. Born February 22, 1896 in Ontario Rev. McCullum received his Licentiate in Theology (L.Th.) from Wycliffe College in Toronto, in 1925. He began as a young deacon in 1925 on Herschel Island and Shingle Point, and a year later was ordained priest in the mission of Old Crow. He served in northern Yukon until 1928, in Mayo from 1929 to 1934, and in Dawson City from 1935 to 1940. In 1929 he married Charlotte Emogene Nicholson and they had three children. Rev. McCullum died in Kingston, Ontario in October 1970.

Nixon, A.C.

A.C. (Nick) Nixon was appointed Major and was a Canadian representative on the joint U.S. - Canadian Alaska Highway Traffic Control Board with headquarters in Whitehorse, Yukon.

Schellinger, Alfred K., 1887-1969

Alfred Kirk Schellinger "Shelly" was born, June 12, 1887, and raised in De Ruyter, New York. In 1909, he obtained a degree in mining and geology from Stanford University. He came to Dawson City, Yukon in 1910 to work for Guggenheim's Yukon Gold Company, first as a gold assayer and melter and then as examining geologist and mining engineer at Keno in 1918. Schellinger staked the Keno claim on what became known as Keno Hill on July 29, 1919. In 1919, he became a superintendent at Keno Hill Mines Limited where he was in charge of operating the first prosperous silver production of 1920-1922. He was also a pioneer of flotation milling at the Wernecke camp on Keno Hill beginning in 1924, which lead to a successful fifty-year period of silver-rich lead sulfide production. He worked at Keno Hill Mines until 1930 when he became chief engineer at Treadwell Yukon Mining Corporation in Mayo. In 1941, he returned to Palo Alto, California where he worked as an aircraft machinist. His interests and activities included geological and mining exploration and mapping (in the Mayo-Keno area), and photography. His photographs of Dawson City were the first colour photographs produced of the area. He also introduced the first home radio receiver to the district in the early 1920s. He was married to Elsie, who moved to Dawson City in 1913. They had two sons, Ken born in 1915 and Joe born in 1918. Alfred Schellinger died in 1969 at the age of 82. Mount Schellinger was named after him in 1973.

Friesen, A.P., 19- -

A.P. Friesen was born in 1915 in Gretna, Manitoba. He completed his early schooling in Medicine Hat, Alberta. He articled to become an accountant in Lethbridge and Toronto, where he became a Chartered Accountant. During World War II he served in Ottawa with the Treasury Division, Department of Munitions and Supply. He returned to private business, and joined the White Pass & Yukon Corporation Ltd. in 1953 as Secretary. After filling various posts, he was elected President in 1969.

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