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 In 1945, Dan had a six-week furlough and snowshoed about two hundred miles from Dawson to the Nation and Charlie creeks area where brothers Pat and JJ were trapping. He did about forty to fifty miles a day, pulling some food and his eiderdown in his little Ice King toboggan. JJ thought he was toughest man in the Yukon.((JJ Van Bibber and Naill Fink, ed., //I was born under a spruce tree.// Vancouver: Talus Publishing Group, 2012: 81, 85, 103, 105.)) Having volunteered for services in the Pacific, Dan left Whitehorse in early September 1945 to report for duty in Vancouver.((//The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 7 September 1945.)) He was discharged after the atomic bomb ended the war.((Kathleen Thorpe, "Dan Van Bibber." //In Their Honor,//Ye Sa To Communications Society, 1989: 20-25.))
-Dan trapped alone for a few years on Nation River, Charlie Creek, and Back River and then, in 1951, turned over the trap line and all his equipment to Joe Netro for the Old Crow people. Dan went to work as a grader operator on the  [Mayo Road] for United Keno Hill. Dan married a girl from Watson Lake and they had two children, Abe and Bobby. In 1953, he became the highway foreman at Stewart Crossing. He transferred to the Yukon Government when they took over maintenance of the highway in 1957 and then worked for YG for twenty years at Stewart, Tuchitwa, and Ross River. Dan retired in 1978 at age sixty-five.((Kathleen Thorpe, "Dan Van Bibber." //In Their Honor,//Ye Sa To Communications Society, 1989: 20-25.))
+Dan trapped alone for a few years on Nation River, Charlie Creek, and Back River and then, in 1951, turned over the trap line and all his equipment to Joe Netro for the Old Crow people. Dan went to work as a grader operator on the  [Mayo Road] for United Keno Hill. Dan married a girl from Watson Lake and they had two children, Abe and Bobby. In 1953, he became the highway foreman at Stewart Crossing. He transferred to the Yukon Government when they took over maintenance of the highway in 1957 and then worked for YG for twenty years at Stewart, Tuchitua, and Ross River. Dan retired in 1978 at age sixty-five.((Kathleen Thorpe, "Dan Van Bibber." //In Their Honor,//Ye Sa To Communications Society, 1989: 20-25.))