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 In 1943, Alex started big-game guiding for Carl Chambers.((“Legend Award 2005: Legend Alex Van Bibber.” Grand Slam Club / OVIS, 2020 website: https://www.slamquest.org/grand-slam-legends-details-info.php?Legend-Alex-Van-Bibber-1.)) From 1944 to 1946, he was enlisted in service during the Second Word War. His call had been extended for a year so he could work on war projects in the Yukon, and then he was stationed in Halifax and Debert, Nova Scotia. He did not make it overseas before the Second World ended.((Alex Van Bibber interview with Helene Dobrowolsky in Champagne, 25 September 1991. Yukon Archives, 92/14 SR 131-9))
-In 1946, Alex and Sue Chambers (nee Dixon) were married and Alex worked on hydraulic crews for the federal government.((Yukon Archives, Alex Van Bibber biographical sketch.)) He and Sue started and ran their own outfitting company from 1948 to 1968. During the first year, a client got a ram that still ranks #10 in the all-time B&C record book.((“Legend Award 2005: Legend Alex Van Bibber.” Grand Slam Club / OVIS, 2020 website: https://www.slamquest.org/grand-slam-legends-details-info.php?Legend-Alex-Van-Bibber-1.))
+In 1946, Alex and Sue Chambers (nee Dickson) were married and Alex worked on hydraulic crews for the federal government.((Yukon Archives, Alex Van Bibber biographical sketch.)) He and Sue started and ran their own outfitting company from 1948 to 1968. During the first year, a client got a ram that still ranks #10 in the all-time B&C record book.((“Legend Award 2005: Legend Alex Van Bibber.” Grand Slam Club / OVIS, 2020 website: https://www.slamquest.org/grand-slam-legends-details-info.php?Legend-Alex-Van-Bibber-1.))
 Life was not all outfitting. Van Bibber prospected in the Firth River area in 1948.((Yukon Archives, Alex Van Bibber biographical sketch.)) In 1977, he began consulting for the Yukon Government and NWT Renewable Resources. Alex was in the movie //Mad Trapper// and he climbed Mount Kennedy with Robert Kennedy.((Yukon Archives, Alex Van Bibber biographical sketch.))