Yukon who is who

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Gerhard Charles “Carl” Friesen (1952 – 2022)
	
Carl Friesen was born in Morden, Manitoba.((“Remembering Carl Friesen.” //Underhill since 1913,// 2024 website: Remembering Carl Friesen - Underhill Geomatics Ltd.)) He started work as a summer chainman in land surveying with his uncle James Sharpe at Underhill & Underhill in 1971. Sharpe was a partner in the company.((Meagan Gillmore, “Underhill makes its mark in a new century.” //Yukon News,// March 12. 2013.)) Carl received his B.Sc from the University of Calgary in 1987 and was immediately certified as a Canada Land Surveyor after articling under William Grigor Robinson.((“Remembering Carl Friesen.” //Underhill since 1913,// 2024 website: Remembering Carl Friesen - Underhill Geomatics Ltd.))

Carl Freisen bought a partnership in Underhill & Underhill in 1989. In the 1990s Underhill lost a million dollars on a contract with BC Hydro to convert paper files to a digital system. They completed the project but it almost ruined the company. Work related to the Yukon Land Claim surveys saved the company starting in the mid-1980s. Underhill won over half of the contracts and also worked on claim surveys in Nunavut and NWT.((Meagan Gillmore, “Underhill makes its mark in a new century.” //Yukon News,// March 12. 2013.))
	
In 2018, two Yukoners, Carl Friesen and Diane Strand, were named to the board that recommends people for position in the Canadian Senate.((“2 Yukoners named to Senate appointment body.” //CBC News,// 16 April 2018.)) Carl was a director and president of the Association of Canadian Land Surveyors between 2001 and 2005. He was a long-standing member of Engineers Yukon and was president from 2011 to 2013. He was made a Fellow of Engineers Canada in 2014.((“Gerhard Charles (Carl) Friesen.” //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 22 July 2022.))