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-Peter Percival
+Peter Percival (1940 - 2025)
-Peter Percival graduated with a BSc in mining engineering from the University of Alaska in 1969. He began working for New Imperial Mines, the forerunner of Whitehorse Copper Mines, in 1970. He was hired as a geologist and worked as a miner, shift boss, project engineer, blasting engineer, and mine engineer. Peter was responsible for the success of the "vertical crater retreat" at Whitehorse Copper. He supervised the mine closure in 1983 and was one of the last people to be laid off.((Janssens & Percival; Percival 1993 in Helene Dobrowolsky and Rob Ingram, "A History of the Whitehorse Copper Belt." DIAND Open File 1993-1 (1):28.))
+Peter Percival was born in Toronto and attended Upper Canada College. He met his future wife, Christel, and graduated with a BSc in mining engineering from the University of Alaska in 1969. He and Chrystal moved to the Yukon in 1970 and built a log home on Cowley Lake. He walked his favourite trails and was an avid gardener. He was a dedicated World War II history buff and a strong cribbage player.(("Peter Warren Percival." //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 24 December 2025.))
+Peter began working for New Imperial Mines, the forerunner of Whitehorse Copper Mines, in 1970. He was hired as a geologist and worked as a miner, shift boss, project engineer, blasting engineer, and mine engineer. Peter was responsible for the success of the "vertical crater retreat" at Whitehorse Copper. He supervised the mine closure in 1983 and was one of the last people to be laid off.((Janssens & Percival; Percival 1993 in Helene Dobrowolsky and Rob Ingram, "A History of the Whitehorse Copper Belt." DIAND Open File 1993-1 (1):28.)) Peter then went to work for Yukon Highways and later fished commercially and started a berry harvesting business. He constructed many houses around the Yukon.(("Peter Warren Percival." //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 24 December 2025.))
 Percival was heavily involved in public hearings held by the Yukon Utilities Board on its contentious 20-year resources plan. The Board was willing to provide financial compensation to people and individuals awarded intervener status. The hearing process, started in July 2006, ended in May 2007 and Percival applied for $11,375 in compensation. Percival believes his input was instrumental in the rejection of a $24-million purchase-power agreement between Yukon Energy and Sherwood Copper that would have brought electricity to the Minto mine.((“Utilities board silent on intervener compensation.” //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 20 September 2007.)) Percival opposed the tentative deal, saying the cost of a power line between Carmacks and Stewart Crossing should not be fronted by the Board. He also questioned Yukon Energy’s offer to take over Sherwood Copper’s diesel generators after the hydro line was operational. He called for a full public review.((“Sparks fly over proposed Yukon power deal.” //CBC News,// 22 January 2007. 2024 website: Sparks fly over proposed Yukon power deal | CBC News))
+Peter was community-minded and coached soccer and volunteered at the Mt. Lorne fire department and with the local advisory committee. He dealt with Parkinson's in his later years.(("Peter Warren Percival." //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 24 December 2025.))