Yukon who is who

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Frank Hepworth Buck (b. 1891)
	
Frank Buck was born in Truro, Nova Scotia.((Linda E.T. MacDonald and Lynette R. Bleiler, //Gold & Galena.// Mayo Historical Society, 1990: 350.)) He came into the country over the Chilkoot Pass in June 1899 from Seattle.((Yukon Archives, Yukon Genealogy database.)) Reverend Buck became a Church Camp Missionary working in the Klondike mining camps.((//Northern Lights,// August 1919, Vol. VII, No. III.)) He and Julius Kendi visited a fish camp at Fraser Falls on the Stewart River in 1915 before the people there decided to create a village two kilometres from Mayo on the Stewart River.((//Blessed Beading: Where Cultures Meet: A Century of Traditional Crafts in Mayo, Yukon.// The Parish of St. Mary with St. Mark, 2020.))
	
Reverend Frank Buck enlisted to serve in the First World War in September 1916.((Library and Archives Canada, Attestation Paper, WWI Reg. #2004513. 19 September 1916.)) He was recruited by Captain George Black and was in England by August 1917.((//Dawson Daily News// (Dawson), 17 August 1917.)) Reverend Buck returned to the Yukon after the war.((Linda E.T. MacDonald and Lynette R. Bleiler, //Gold & Galena.// Mayo Historical Society, 1990: 350.))
	
In 1920, Reverend Buck was assigned the parish of St. Marks Church in Mayo, along the Stewart River, and the Klondike goldfields.((“The Anglican Church in Yukon.” Old Log Church Museum vertical files.)) The parish on the Stewart River probably included St. Mark’s Church at the First Nation village near Mayo. In 1922, he was first rector of St. Mary’s Anglican Church and taught the first high school classes in Mayo. He resigned his post in 1925 to study at the University of British Columbia, and later taught high school in Victoria, British Columbia.((Linda E.T. MacDonald and Lynette R. Bleiler, //Gold & Galena.// Mayo Historical Society, 1990: 350.))