Yukon who is who

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Victor James Foley (1902 – 1986)
	
Victor Foley was born in Slocan, British Columbia where his father was the city clerk and policeman. By his late teens, Vic was living in Vancouver and he made his professional boxing debut there on St. Patrick's Day, 1922. Foley faced all the popular boxers of the day and won. He reigned as Canada's bantamweight champion for one year and three days until he was unseated in a bizarre match against Bobby “Bad News” Eber in Toronto.((Jim Robb, "The Colourful Five Percent: Vic Foley - champion fighter, miner, bartender." //Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 20 May 2005.)) During his pro boxing career (1922 – 1933), he had sixty-eight wins, nineteen losses, and twenty-nine draws.((“Vic Foley.” BoxRec, 2020 website: https://boxrec.com/en/proboxer/10106.)) He earned $100,000 in seven years but kept little of it. A hotel venture in Vancouver went bankrupt and he moved to the Yukon.((Jim Robb, "The Colourful Five Percent: Vic Foley - champion fighter, miner, bartender." //Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 20 May 2005.))
	
Foley arrived in the Yukon around 1935 and worked for Curly Salois at the Westminster Hotel in Dawson. He later cooked at various camps around the Yukon. He moved to Whitehorse in the mid-1950s and worked at the White Pass Beer Parlor in the White Pass Hotel until it burned down in 1961 and he moved to work at the Regina Beer Parlor. Bill Ford, of Whitehorse, thought he was one of the best-liked men in the Yukon.((Jim Robb, “The Colourful Five Percent.” //The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 15 December 1995.)) In 1967, Vic represented the Yukon at a sportsman dinner in Ottawa and met George Chuvallo. He was nominated for the British Columbia Sports Hall of Fame in 1976 but was not inducted. By then he was retired and living in New Westminster, British Columbia.((Jim Robb, "The Colourful Five Percent: Vic Foley - champion fighter, miner, bartender." //Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 20 May 2005.))