Yukon who is who

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Mary (d. 2003) and Oscar Adami (d. 1990)

Oscar and Mary Adami moved to Fort Selkirk in 1937. They bought a trapline on the Macmillan River from the RCMP. Their daughter Annabelle was born in May 1939. ((Mary and Oscar Adami, Yukon Archives, biographical sketch.))
Oscar Adami had a wood camp on the river at Williams Creek, a tributary of the Yukon River. The couple had not been married long when they ordered a stove. It sank with the sternwheeler //Klondike.// The second stove they ordered sank on the sternwheeler Casca. ((Joyce Yardley, //Yukon Riverboat Days//. Surry B.C.: Hancock House, 1996: 135.))
The Adamis moved to British Columbia from the Yukon. Mary Adami, nee Lemieux was living in Powell River in 1987. ((Mary and Oscar Adami, Yukon Archives, biographical sketch.)) She died in Victoria in 2003 at age eighty-five and is remembered by her friends in the Yukon, Fort McMurray, Powell River and Victoria, British Columbia. She is survived by her daughters Annabelle (Nick) Verbisky and Helen (Phil) Adami-Hawley and four grandchildren. Mary was predeceased by her husband of fifty-four years. ((Remembering, “Mary Adami.” //Edmonton Journal// (Edmonton), 1 May 2012.))