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| Al and Tish Tomlin | Al Tomlin (b. 1929) |
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| Al Tomlin was born in North Vancouver and moved to Whitehorse in 1948.((Haley Tomlin, 2004, "Ancestor Essay" in //From First We Met to Internet: Stories from Haines Junction's first Sixty-Five Years as a Settlement.// Yukon College. 2007: 132-3.)) He answered an ad for a cook’s position with White Pass & Yukon Route. The company paid for his return fare from Vancouver to Whitehorse, but he never used the return part. He worked as a cook's helper mostly on the sternwheeler //Keno,// hauling ore from Mayo and the job ended when they ran out of ore. He also worked on the //Casca// which was more of a tour boat. Later he worked in the Whitehorse firehall and then for Highways running a cat to clear brush between Burwash and Destruction Bay. One year, he worked for an electrical company building transformer banks and putting up power poles. He also hauled equipment and poles for the electrical company from Dawson Creek to Whitehorse. That was about his third year in the north. About year four, he went back to Highways as an equipment operator on the Haines Road and Alaska Highway.((Bruce Tomlin, "My Dad, Al" in //From First We Met to Internet: Stories from Haines Junction's first Sixty-Five Years as a Settlement.// Yukon College. 2007: 135.)) | Al Tomlin was born in North Vancouver and moved to Whitehorse in 1948.((Haley Tomlin, 2004, "Ancestor Essay" in //From First We Met to Internet: Stories from Haines Junction's first Sixty-Five Years as a Settlement.// Yukon College. 2007: 132-3.)) He answered an ad for a cook’s position with White Pass & Yukon Route. The company paid for his return fare from Vancouver to Whitehorse, but he never used the return part. He worked as a cook's helper mostly on the sternwheeler //Keno,// hauling ore from Mayo and the job ended when they ran out of ore. He also worked on the //Casca// which was more of a tour boat. Later he worked in the Whitehorse firehall and then for Highways running a cat to clear brush between Burwash and Destruction Bay. One year, he worked for an electrical company building transformer banks and putting up power poles. He also hauled equipment and poles for the electrical company from Dawson Creek to Whitehorse. That was about his third year in the north. About year four, he went back to Highways as an equipment operator on the Haines Road and Alaska Highway.((Bruce Tomlin, "My Dad, Al" in //From First We Met to Internet: Stories from Haines Junction's first Sixty-Five Years as a Settlement.// Yukon College. 2007: 135.)) |
