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| Jack William Fraser (1933 – 2011) | Jack William Fraser (1933 – 2011) |
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| Jack Fraser was born in Edmonton, Alberta. He came to the Yukon in 1951, after graduating from high school, for summer work as a labourer with the army. He soon moved on to the survey crew. He was good at math and returned to Alberta for further training at Calgary Tech and returned to work in the Yukon during the next summer season. He met his future wife Betty and they spent their first winter at Marsh Lake where Jack learned how to trap, hunt moose, and cut wood.(("In Loving Memory, Jack William Fraser April 26, 1933 to February 2, 2011." pamphlet.)) | Jack Fraser was born in Edmonton, Alberta. He came to the Yukon in 1951, after graduating from high school, for summer work as a labourer with the army. He soon moved on to the survey crew. He was good at math and returned to Alberta for further training at Calgary Tech and returned to work in the Yukon during the next summer season. He met his future wife Betty [Shakoon] and they spent their first winter at Marsh Lake where Jack learned how to trap, hunt moose, and cut wood.(("In Loving Memory, Jack William Fraser April 26, 1933 to February 2, 2011." pamphlet.)) |
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| Jack started with the territorial government as a surveyor and worked throughout the Yukon on various road and bridge projects. His work took him to Dawson and he moved his family there permanently in the late 1950s.(("In Loving Memory, Jack William Fraser April 26, 1933 to February 2, 2011." pamphlet.)) Fraser worked on the new Stewart Crossing to Dawson road in 1957. The old road was barely passable and plans for the new road were pushed forward by Jack's supervisor, Mr. Tate. Fraser stayed with the engineering staff as their representative in Dawson.((Mike Mulherin, Jason Watt and Dennis Berry, eds., //Dempster Highway Volume 2.// Victoria: Flat Tire Books and Trafford Publishing. 2004: 81-88.)) He surveyed through the Klondike dredge piles and the budget was so limited that they jumped from one tailing pile to another. He remembers having lunch and thinking that their lookout over the Tintina Trench would be a nice spot for the highway – and it did meet the standards for curve and grade. Fraser is proud that the highway was chip sealed without realignment.((“Klondike King of the Road.” //What’s Up Yukon,// 2 September 2008. Issue #106.)) | Jack started with the territorial government as a surveyor and worked throughout the Yukon on various road and bridge projects. His work took him to Dawson and he moved his family there permanently in the late 1950s.(("In Loving Memory, Jack William Fraser April 26, 1933 to February 2, 2011." pamphlet.)) Fraser worked on the new Stewart Crossing to Dawson road in 1957. The old road was barely passable and plans for the new road were pushed forward by Jack's supervisor, Mr. Tate. Fraser stayed with the engineering staff as their representative in Dawson.((Mike Mulherin, Jason Watt and Dennis Berry, eds., //Dempster Highway Volume 2.// Victoria: Flat Tire Books and Trafford Publishing. 2004: 81-88.)) He surveyed through the Klondike dredge piles and the budget was so limited that they jumped from one tailing pile to another. He remembers having lunch and thinking that their lookout over the Tintina Trench would be a nice spot for the highway – and it did meet the standards for curve and grade. Fraser is proud that the highway was chip sealed without realignment.((“Klondike King of the Road.” //What’s Up Yukon,// 2 September 2008. Issue #106.)) |
