Yukon who is who

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Norman “Dinky” Mervyn (d. 2003) 
	
Dinky Mervyn was born at Lansing on the Stewart River to parents Jim and Julia Mervyn. He and brother Kaiser Mervyn were two of five guides hired by Lt. Bill Hammond to guide him from Mayo, over the Mackenzie Mountains, to Norman Wells in 1943. They were looking for an alternate route for the CANOL pipeline. It was a forty-two-day trip and much of it was done in -50 and below weather.((Dick North, "Land Reconnaissance for Oil Pipeline Route Over Mackenzie Mountains." YHMA Alaska Highway Photo Collection Project; Yukon Archives, Alex Van Bibber Collection, 92/28.)) No one was living at Lansing by 1947. Two buildings were used by Dinky Mervyn and Lonny Johnny as trapline cabins.((James H. Bond, //From Out of the Yukon.// Binsfords & Mort, 1948: 208.)) In 1963, John Brock was based at Elsa as a field assistant with Aaro Aho's company, Silver Titan Mines. The next summer John was party chief with an associate company, Peso Silver. Lonnie John and Dinky Mervyn were his Peso Silver crew.((Jane Gaffin, //Caching In.// Whitehorse: Word Pro, 1980: 130-131.))