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Frank and Karen Hawker
	
Frank and Karen Hawker came to Canada for a second time in 1991 and brought their family with them to the Klondike. They were dedicated volunteers for all Klondike Placer Miners Association events and Frank served two terms as a director for the association. The couple mined in many non-traditional areas of the Klondike and Frank was a careful and efficient miner. In 2003, they won the Leckie Award for Outstanding Placer Mining Reclamation Practices on their Sixtymile property.(("For 2006, the KPMA continues the tradition of naming a Mr. and Mrs. Miner.” //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 26 September 2006.)) This ground was previously dredged and dozer mined. The Hawkers ran a New Zealand style operation using a floating dredge that operates out-of-stream and brings the soil and organic matter to the surface. The area where the Hawkers mined now supports abundant natural re-vegetation and has been converted to rolling hills.(("Frank and Karen Hawker." //The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 21 November 2003.))