Yukon who is who

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Mike Cyr (1857 – 1933)
	
Brothers Tony and Mike Cyr were working as loggers in New Brunswick before 1898. They came to the Yukon during the Klondike gold rush in June 1898, but never made it to Dawson. They worked on both tramways at Miles Canyon, building them and afterward. Their logging background made them good with horses. They worked as pilots bringing boats through the canyon and rapids and walking back. If someone wanted to hire them and they didn't like the vessel, they built a raft and took them through on that. The brothers built a little shack at the downriver end of the Hepburn line, somewhere near the location of today’s hydro dam. They sometimes stayed there at the end of their run through the canyon and rapids.((Canyon City History Project. Helene Dobrowolsky interviewing Laurent Cyr, 6 February 1995. Yukon Historic Sites.))
	
Mike later worked as a hostler and built roadhouses for White Pass, including the one at Carmacks.((Patricia Ellis, //Yukon Sketchbook: A Travellers Companion.// Castlegar: LKL Consulting, 1992: 21.)) He built Montague House for WP&YR in 1915. Cyr had a crew and used horses from a nearby stable.((Diane Olthuis, "Stabilizing the Montague Roadhouse: A Klondike Romance." //Joiner's Quarterly,// No. 29: 28-30.)) After the roadhouse burned down, he rebuilt it and stayed as a hostler until the early 1920s.(("Canyon City Interpretive Manual," Yukon Heritage Branch, page 47.)) He stayed during the summer as well, looking after the horses, and left when the system changed to tracked vehicle outfits.((Montague Roadhouse Oral History, Bruce Barrett interview with Laurent Cyr, 11 May 1994. Yukon Heritage Branch "Roadhouses" file.))