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Porter family
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Dennis Porter lived on the Mayo Road. No other biographical information is available.

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The Provincial Archives is a branch of the Department of Supply and Services. Function: The Provincial Archives of New Brunswick collects, preserves, and makes available for research, documents and records bearing upon the history of New Brunswick. Most of the holdings are for the period from 1784, when New Brunswick was made a separate province of British North America. However, some materials relating to the earlier exploration, Acadian and pre-Loyalist periods have also been acquired.

Whiting, Robert T.
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Robert T. Whiting is the grandson of Frank Herbert Whiting who was born in 1857 at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. Frank Whiting studied Civil Engineering at Ames College in Iowa. Frank, his wife Millah and their eight children moved to Skagway, Alaska in 1898 when he was appointed Division Superintendent of the White Pass and Yukon Route (WP&YR) railroad. The family returned to the lower forty-eight by 1903 and Mr. Whiting remained involved in large engineering projects throughout his career. Frank Herbert Whiting died in Seattle in 1936. Robert is the son of their last child, James David, born in 1896.

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The Whitehorse Diocese of the Roman Catholic Church was established in 1944 with the Most Reverend J.L. Coudert appointed as bishop. Following the death of Bishop Coudert in 1965, the Most Reverend J.P. Mulvihill became bishop. The Most Reverend Hubert O'Conner, OMI was then bishop from 1971 to 1986. He was followed by the Most Reverend Thomas Lobsinger, OMI. The diocese comprises the entire Yukon and the northern tip of British Columbia. It has been served by the Oblates of Mary Immaculate since its inception (OMI).Its official name is: Catholic Episcopal Corporation of Whitehorse Inc.

Ratto, S.G., 18- -
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No biographical information available.

Selkirk First Nation
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The Selkirk First Nation, formerly the Selkirk Indian Band, originally inhabited the area around Fort Selkirk at the confluence of the Yukon and Pelly rivers. The settlement of Fort Selkirk became the center of the former band's activities, hence their name. However, changes that began in the late 1940s precipitated the movement of the band. At that time the declining fur industry and the resulting closure of the Fort Selkirk Hudson's Bay post made living around the Fort less economically viable. In the 1950s, the completion of the Klondike Highway, accompanied with the cessation of sternwheeler traffic on the Yukon River, inexorably pulled the people away from the river toward the highway. The members of the Selkirk First Nation migrated up the Pelly River to Pelly Crossing. Not all the Selkirk people moved to the same place; some spread out to other Yukon communities. However, the social and political center of the Selkirk First Nation is now in Pelly Crossing. The Selkirk First Nation signed their Self Government Agreement at Minto, on July 21, 1997.

Sheldon Museum
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No information available. Function: The Sheldon Museum is in Haines, Alaska.

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The first Presbyterian church in Dawson was a small log cabin structure, at the same location, built in 1898 by Rev. Andrew Grant, who came to Dawson in 1898 with Rev. Dickey to minister to the miners in the town and on the creeks. In 1925, the Church officially became St. Andrew's United Church, although the Methodist congregation in Dawson had joined the Presbyterian congregation in 1913.