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Norman S. Chamberlist (1918 – 2001)
	
Norm Chamberlist was a Whitehorse electrical engineer and a hotelier.( (“Norman Chamberlist.” Wikipedia, 2022 website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Chamberlist.)) He was an alderman with the City of Whitehorse in 1959 under mayor Gordon R. Cameron and in 1960 and 1961 under mayor Vic Wylie.((“Whitehorse Mayors and Aldermen / Councillors, past and present.” //ExploreNorth,// 2022 website: https://explorenorth.com/yukon/whitehorse-mayors-councillors.html.)) 
	
In 1961, he was elected to the Territorial Council in the riding of Whitehorse East. He met with Minister Gaglardi, British Columbia Highways, to discuss the construction of a highway connecting Skagway, Alaska to Carcross, Yukon. Alaska had already built fourteen miles of the road, British Columbia would have to build 30-40 miles to reach the border, and the Yukon would have to build a similar distance. Chamberlist wanted the B.C. government to survey the route so that real costs could be ascertained.((“Canadian Minister Hears Proposal for Road Extension.” //Fairbanks Daily News-Miner// (Fairbanks), 6 October 1961.)) A few months after he was elected, Chamberlist was forced to resign his seat when a company he had a share(s) in, Whitehorse Electric Co. Ltd., bid on a contract with the government.((“Norman Chamberlist.” //Wikipedia,// 2022 website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Chamberlist; “Norman (Norm) Chamberlist.” //The Legislature Speaks.// Yukon Archives, 2022 website: http://yukonlegislaturespeaks.ca/index.php/biographies/mla/norman-norm-chamberlist.)) 
	
Chamberlist was elected to the Territorial Council again in 1967 and called for the federal government to extend more responsibility to the Council.((“Norman Chamberlist.” //Wikipedia,// 2022 website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Chamberlist.)) He was re-elected in 1970 and was given the portfolio for Health, Welfare and Rehabilitation. He and Hilda Watson were the only two elected members of the new Executive Committee and they were not allowed to discuss government business with the non-elected member of the Committee. Chamberlist was described as abrasive, and he and Watson often disagreed. In 1973, Chamberlist’s appointment as a minister in the Executive Committee was revoked and Clive Tanner replaced him. Watson suggested that Chamberlist was trying to destroy the Committee for political reasons.((Joyce Hayden, //Yukon’s Women of Power.// Windwalker Press, 1999: 90.)) 
	
The riding of Whitehorse East was dissolved in 1974 and Chamberlist did not run in the Yukon election that year. He moved to Vancouver and, in 1975, was unsuccessful in running as a Liberal Party candidate in Vancouver East.((“Norman Chamberlist.” //Wikipedia,// 2022 website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Chamberlist.))