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Pete Huley (1893 - 1973)
	
Pete Huley came to Canada from Austria in 1912.(("Klondike Pete dies aged 80." //Vancouver Sun// (Vancouver), 9 February 1973.)) Huley farmed in eastern Canada and on the prairies, and then rode the rails and eventually came to the Klondike.((Dawson City Museum, the Nutty Club Coll 991R3 M44(5) )) In the early 1900s, Pete Huley and his brother John Huley lived at Grand Forks.((Leona Iskra, "The late interesting, Ralph 'Sox' Troberg." //The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 25 August 2000.)) 
	
After people pointed out his resemblance to Charlie Chaplin, Huley gave up his search for gold to go to Hollywood. He had a contract at Columbia Studios and appeared in small parts in Laurel and Hardy, Buster Keaton, and Ben Turpin films.(("Klondike Pete dies aged 80." //Vancouver Sun// (Vancouver), 9 February 1973.)) He received a threatening call from Chaplin’s manager who thought he was mimicking Chaplin’s copyrighted image. The suit was dropped when it was proved that Huley had had a genuine foot shuffle for longer than Chaplin was famous.((MacBride Museum, “The Charlie Chaplin of the North.” //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 19 April 2009.))
	
The arrival of the talkies in the 1920s put an end to Huley's career because of his strong Austrian accent. He returned to the Yukon and got a job as a gardener. His idea for a combination rake-hoe received a Canadian patent and he spent all his savings to have about 2000 manufactured. He managed to sell them to a Richmond hardware merchant but failed to sell his patent to a big manufacturer.(("Klondike Pete dies aged 80." //Vancouver Sun// (Vancouver), 9 February 1973.)) A garden rake/hoe patented by Pete Huley exists at the Western Development Museum. The latest production date is given as 1958.((Western Development Museum, collection description: Acc #WDM1980-S-454.))

Huley later got a job with WP&YR and worked there for twelve years before retiring to Vancouver. Otto Nordling remembered him as the living personification of honesty, sincerity, kindness, and generosity.((MacBride Museum, “The Charlie Chaplin of the North.” //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 19 April 2009.))