Yukon who is who

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Ed Karman
	
Ed Karman started working on the Alaska Highway in 1942, starting twenty miles out of Dawson Creek in the cutbanks. He travelled as a mechanic with the convoys in and out of Whitehorse and then moved to the Yukon in 1943. He was a mechanic for Bates and Roberts in the old Cassiar garage on Fourth Avenue before he started with Standard Oil. He met his future wife Betty when she was working as a cook in the Watson Lake Hotel, and they were married in Dawson in 1947.((“Mr. and Mrs. Yukon named.” //Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 5 January 1998.))
 Ed Betty lived in Dawson for two summers and one winter and worked as caretakers at a camp. After a trip outside, Ed went back to work as a mechanic on the highway and they lived in Destruction Bay for one or two years.((Told to Elaine Hurlburt by Betty Karman, 2005, "Fire at the Wayside Garage" in //From First We Met to Internet: Stories from Haines Junction's first Sixty-Five Years as a Settlement.// Yukon College. 2007: 91-2.)) 

In 1949, the Karmans moved to Haines Junction and Ed worked for the Army before 1951, when Ed went into business for himself with a service station.((“Mr. and Mrs. Yukon named.” //Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 5 January 1998.)) The only thing there was the maintenance camp and RCMP building. Ed’s employer wanted to sell an old tin Quonset he was using as a garage and the Karmans used it to start the Wayside Garage. They lived in a house they later sold to the Brewsters. They owned the Garage for about five years until a fire destroyed it in October 1954. There was no fire department, and the Mounties came to help.((Told to Elaine Hurlburt by Betty Karman, 2005, "Fire at the Wayside Garage" in From //First We Met to Internet: Stories from Haines Junction's first Sixty-Five Years as a Settlement.// Yukon College. 2007: 91-2.)) 

In 1956, Ed went to work on the Haines-Fairbanks Pipeline and he stayed with that job for seventeen years, until the pipeline closed. The Karmans lived at Border Station, also called Rainy Hollow or 48-Mile. The camp was not accessible during the winter and the residents used an airplane for access. Ed was a pilot, and he often flew people to the top of the ski hill in his ski-equipped plane. There were heavy snowfalls at Border and Elizabeth remembers going upstairs to look out the window. Ed had to go and change a streetlight, and he went up a snowbank and bent down to do it. Haines Terminal and Border families visited back and forth. The workforce on the pipeline was reduced in the late 1960s and the Haines to Tok section was mothballed in 1971.((Kirsty Hollinger and Glenda R. Lesondak,"The Haines-Fairbanks Pipeline." Centre for Environmental Management of Military Lands, Colorado State University, for Conservation Branch Directorate of Public Works, US Army, Alaska.  April 2003: 48, 51.)) Ed’s last job was with Russell Transport.((“Mr. and Mrs. Yukon named.” //Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 5 January 1998.))

Ed joined the Yukon Order of Pioneers in the 1960s when he met the 20-year residency requirement. Betty and Ed Karman were chosen to be Mr. and Mrs. Yukon for the 1988 Sourdough Rendezvous.((“Mr. and Mrs. Yukon named.” //Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 5 January 1998.))