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 In the late 1930s, Barker and partner Irvin Ray bought a D-4 Cat and formed the Haggart Mining Company. By 1940, Barker had 22 claims and twelve miles of prospecting leases along Haggart Creek. The partners closed down the operation about 1946. In 1952, Barker bought the Chateau Mayo Hotel from Jim Mervyn. He continued to prospect and held some 100 hardrock claims. From 1959 he leased his placer claims to the Waddco Placers group and when they moved to Dawson in 1959, Barker mined for a season next to his cabin on Haggart Creek.((Linda E.T. MacDonald and Lynette R. Bleiler, //Gold & Galena.// Mayo Historical Society, 1990: 338-339.)) Waddco had reportedly recovered $400,000 in gold from the property.((Michael Gates, //Dublin Gulch: A History of the Eagle Gold Mine.// Lost Moose, 2020: 26.))
-When Whitehorse got busy after the Second World War, Barker and Irvin Ray pooled their resources and bought seven acres in the north end of Whitehorse.((Joyce Hayden, //Victoria Faulkner: Lady of the Golden North.//  Windwalker Press. 2002: 82.)) In 1948, Ed had a business buying trucks, bulldozers and any other equipment he could repair and refitting them to sell at a good profit. His interest in the Whitehorse property was to establish a combined camping-motel-shopping centre.((H.S. Bostock, //Pack Horse Tracks – recollections of a geologists life in British Columbia and the Yukon 1924 – 1954.// Yukon Geoscience Forum, 1990: 241.)) The final complex, Tourist Services, was owned by Jack Elliot, Ed Barker, Irvin Ray, and Wardie Forrest. The partners wanted to run an auto court, but Jim Smith convinced them that that would be seasonal, while a grocery would be busy year-round. The store generated money from day one and became a big operation. In 1954, Bruce Sung, who had leased the Tourist Services restaurant and operated as Columbia Caterers, bought out the partners and kept Smith as the general manager.((Linda Johnson ed., //At the Heart of Gold: The Yukon Commissioner’s Office 1898-2010//. Legislative Assembly of the Yukon, 2012: 96 -103.))
+When Whitehorse got busy after the Second World War, Barker and Irvin Ray pooled their resources and bought seven acres in the north end of Whitehorse.((Joyce Hayden, //Victoria Faulkner: Lady of the Golden North.//  Windwalker Press. 2002: 82.)) In 1948, Ed had a business buying trucks, bulldozers and any other equipment he could repair and refitting them to sell at a good profit. His interest in the Whitehorse property was to establish a combined camping-motel-shopping centre.((H.S. Bostock, //Pack Horse Tracks – recollections of a geologists life in British Columbia and the Yukon 1924 – 1954.// Yukon Geoscience Forum, 1990: 241.)) The final complex, Tourist Services, was owned by Jack Elliot, Ed Barker, Irvin Ray, and Wardie Forrest. The partners wanted to run an auto court, but Jim Smith convinced them that that would be seasonal, while a grocery would be busy year-round. The store generated money from day one and became a big operation. In 1954, Bruce Sung, who had leased the Tourist Services restaurant and operated as Columbia Caterers, bought out the partners and kept Smith as the general manager.((Linda Johnson, //At the Heart of Gold: The Yukon Commissioner’s Office 1898-2010//. Legislative Assembly of the Yukon, 2012: 96 -103.))