Yukon who is who

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Frank McAlpine (1878 – 1919)
	
Frank McAlpine was born in Prescott County, Ontario. He was a Conservative, elected to the Yukon Council for the Bonanza community in 1909 (1909 – 1912).((Linda Johnson, //At the Heart of Gold: The Yukon Commissioner’s Office 1898-2010.// Legislative Assembly of the Yukon, 2012: 31.)) He was a broker in 1914 when he enlisted to serve in the First World War. He joined the Yukon Motor Machine Gun Battery in Vancouver and was promoted to the rank of acting corporal in England in September 1915.  He fought with his unit at Somme where he was promoted to sergeant in October 1916 and later awarded the Military Medal for gallantry and distinguished service. He was promoted to lieutenant in February and invalided back to Canada with an illness in November. He was in and out of the Kingston Hospital until his death in April 1919. He is buried in the Cassburn Cemetery near L’Original, Ontario.((D. Blair Neatby and Michael Gates, //The Yukon Fallen of World War I.// Whitehorse: Whitehorse Legion Branch 254, 2018: 69; Michael Gates, //From the Klondike to Berlin.//Lost Moose, 2017, 39, 46-47.))