Yukon who is who

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John Bruce Fisher (1876 - 1918)
	
John Bruce Fisher was born in Collingwood, Ontario.((D. Blair Neatby and Michael Gates, //The Yukon Fallen of World War I.// Whitehorse Legion Branch 254, 2018: 49.)) Fisher came into the Yukon with one of the boundary survey crews. He became a cook for Dickson, an outfitter in the Kluane district.((Allen A. Wright, "Kluane" draft manuscript, Yukon Archives, Acc #83/21.)) He lived at Silver City and his brother Alex mined in the district.((Interpretive talk by Josie Sias in Silver City, May 1999.)) Bruce Fisher and his brother, Alexander Clark Fisher, enlisted to serve in the First World War. They joined the Yukon Infantry Company in Whitehorse in October 1916. Bruce Fisher went overseas with his unit that later became the 17th Canadian Machine Gun Company. He fell ill with stomach problems in England and died in March 1918 of a stomach ulcer. He was awarded the British War Medal. He is buried in the St. Mary Churchyard in Bramshott, Hampshire, England.((D. Blair Neatby and Michael Gates, //The Yukon Fallen of World War I.// Whitehorse Legion Branch 254, 2018: 49.))