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Jack G. McCandless (d. 1975)
	
Jack McCandless was born in Victoria, British Columbia. His father and two uncles came north during the Klondike gold rush and opened a store, Oak Hall, in Dawson. Jack was a plasterer before he served as a lieutenant on the //HMCS Swansea// during the Second World War. After the war he married Diana Howard. He went back to his trade and he and Diana moved to Whitehorse where Jack easily found work during the 1950s construction boom.  They loved to dance and became fixtures in a lively social scene. At some point, nephew Rob McCandless came to live with them for some time in Whitehorse. J.G. McCandless was a Whitehorse City alderman in 1958. A crescent in the Whitehorse McIntyre subdivision is named for Jack and Diana McCandless.((Karen Smith, “Whitehorse socialite dies at 93.” //The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 30 January 1997.))