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Pete and Mike Mancini
	
Pete and Josephine Mancini were living at No Cash, the United Keno Hill Mine's tramline's midway station, when their oldest son was conceived. Josephine decided to go back to Italy until the baby was born. They had been living in a tarpaper shack, one of two or three built for the tramline workers. Josephine wanted water and all of the amenities.((Jim Robb Colourful Five per Cent scrapbook, "Tramline and No Cash memories." //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 9 March 2011.)) 

Son Mike was almost two when he and his mother returned to the Yukon. Pete was sure he was getting a good house in Calumet and wrote for them to return but they didn't get to move from the tarpaper shack until 1965. One of their neighbours was a Norwegian man Louis Tjemsland, Pete's cross shift on the tramline. Louis left home at age fifteen to be on a ship. He made his way to Canada and eventually up to Dawson where he worked many different jobs. He was dredge foreman. He started working for United Keno Hill in the early 1950s. He loved hunting and fishing and became a grandfather figure to Mike until Louis passed away in 1983. Tony Sgorsgelski, known as "Tramline Tony", was Pete's foreman and head mechanic for the tramline. In the late 1970s, Tony was Mike's foreman when he worked in the machine shop as a student.((Jim Robb Colourful Five per Cent scrapbook, "Tramline and No Cash memories." //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 9 March 2011.)) 

Pete Mancini worked as an electrician at the mine for thirty years before it was shut down. The family left the Yukon and moved to Victoria, British Columbia but Mike missed the north and soon moved back.((Timothy Sawa, "Locals bringing life back to Keno City." //The Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 5 June 1996.)) Mike loves to remember the people and community of his youth. He helped to renovate and expand the Keno City Mining Museum to tell the stories of those who mined in the Silver Trail region.((Leighann Chalykoff, //Heritage Conversations.// Yukon Government, ca. 2024: 27-29.))