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 Boerner was the NCCo agent at Hot Springs in the fall of 1917 and then went to Iditarod until 1920 when he returned to San Francisco. He was the agent in Circle in 1921 and then was assistant manager to Jim Cody at Mayo where they built a store and warehouses. When Cody was transferred to Dawson, Frank Boerner stayed as assistant to R.M. O’Loane. Enid McIntyre was a nurse at the Mayo hospital and they met and married. In 1932 Frank and Enid travelled around to do inventory and that summer O’Loane was transferred to Hot Springs and Boerner became the Mayo agent. In January 1943, he was transferred to Whitehorse where there was no accommodation for him or employees. The company allowed him to buy a lot on Steele Street beside the store and they built a two-story building to accommodate the agent, the Caterpillar manager, plus four rooms for female and two rooms for male employees. He went to Mayo to order lumber, as there was none in Whitehorse during the war, and learned while he was in Mayo that the Whitehorse store had burned down, so he got enough wood to rebuild the store as well. The burned store was still smoking when he and Enid arrived on 14 June. By 12 December, the living quarters were finished, and the store was open for business. The crowd to get in was two abreast for the whole block. People stood in line for two and a half hours in minus forty weather. Boerner was manager at the Whitehorse store until 1 February 1949. He worked for the NCCo for fifty years and seven months.((Linda E.T. MacDonald and Lynette R. Bleiler, //Gold & Galena.//  Mayo Historical Society, 1990: 237-240.))
-Kipp Boerner was a founding member of the Whitehorse Board of Trade in 1947.((//Yukon Nuggets,// “Whitehorse Board of Trade.” 2020 website: https://yukonnuggets.com/hougens-history/whitehorse-board-of-trade.)) In November of that year, the members discussed changing the weekly half-day holiday from Wednesday to Thursday afternoons as, during the tourist season, the store were closed when a large number of tourists were in town.((//Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 21 November 1947.)) In February 1948, a petition seeking incorporation of Whitehorse was prepared by the Board of Trade Corporation Committee.((//Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 4 February 1948.))
+Kipp Boerner was a founding member of the Whitehorse Board of Trade in 1947.((//Yukon Nuggets,// “Whitehorse Board of Trade.” 2020 website: https://yukonnuggets.com/hougens-history/whitehorse-board-of-trade.)) In November of that year, the members discussed changing the weekly half-day holiday from Wednesday to Thursday afternoons as, during the tourist season, the store were closed when a large number of tourists were in town.((//Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 21 November 1947.)) In February 1948, a petition seeking incorporation of Whitehorse was prepared by the Board of Trade Corporation Committee.((//Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 4 February 1948.)) Whitehorse was a White Pass & Yukon Route company town until 1950 when the community was incorporated. Until then, the Board of Trade acted in the absence of an elected municipal government.
 John Scott interviewed Boerman around 1965 about his activities on the Yukon River and the sound recordings are held at the Yukon Archives.((Yukon Archives, “Oral History Centre. 2019 website: http://www.oralhistorycentre.ca/organizations/yukon-archives))