Yukon who is who

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John “Joe” Braga
	
John Braga immigrated from Italy to Dawson in 1926 with his wife and small daughter.((Pretoria Butterworth, “Employees of the Yukon Consolidated Gold Corporation.” Dawson City Museum and Historical Society administrative file 992.8.115)) He had a wood camp at Scroggie Creek where he cut wood for the Stewart River riverboats. The family moved to Bear Creek, near Dawson, when Joe got a job with Yukon Consolidated Gold Corp. (YCGC).((Palma Berger, "The YCGC File." //The Klondike Sun// (Dawson), 10 October 2001; “Julio ‘Joe’ Braga.”  //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 5 November 2017.)) His name first appears on the company payroll as a thawer, working to thaw the ground ahead of a dredge, in 1930.((Pretoria Butterworth, “Employees of the Yukon Consolidated Gold Corporation.” Dawson City Museum and Historical Society administrative file 992.8.115)) Joe and Angela’s youngest son, Mike, was a year old. The family lived at Bear Creek for two or three years and they had another son, Julio, born in 1931. They needed more room so moved into Dawson to a house on Sixth Avenue.  Joe worked for YCGC on the flats in the dredge thawing operation and then moved to the Machine Shop at Bear Creek.((Palma Berger, "The YCGC File." //The Klondike Sun// (Dawson), 10 October 2001; “Julio ‘Joe’ Braga.”  //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 5 November 2017.)) From 1936 to 1966 on he was a welder and a lay-out man. He decided not to leave town when YCGC closed down.((Pretoria Butterworth, “Employees of the Yukon Consolidated Gold Corporation.” Dawson City Museum and Historical Society administrative file 992.8.115))