Yukon who is who

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Victor Ignatius Hahn (1868 - 1958)
	
Victor Hahn was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He arrived in Skagway in May 1898 and worked as a draftsman. He became Superintendent of the White Pass & Yukon Route (WP&YR) railway in 1906 and worked for the company until 1947 [1945].((//Skagway Stories: Stories and Folklore from Skagway, Alaska, Skagway Sleuth, “Victor Immanuel (or Ignatius) Hahn,// August 19, 2010, 2018 website: http://www.skagwaystories.org/2010/08/19/victor-imanuel-or-ignatius-hahn/)) Hahn designed the train station at Bennett, snow shed, docks and the dam below Marsh Lake for WP&YR. He may have also designed the original Whitehorse train depot.((Midnight Arts, //The White Pass and Yukon Railway Depot, Whitehorse and associated structures: A Structural History.// Whitehorse: Yukon Tourism, Heritage Branch, 1998: 12.)) Superintendent Hahn left the employ of the White Pass & Yukon Route at the end of May 1945 after forty-seven years of service.((//The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 25 May 1945.))