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Paul Nieman (1902 – 1983)
	
Paul Nieman was born in Hamburg. He immigrated to Canada with his family around 1912 and they homesteaded in Pocahasset near Edmonton, Alberta. Nieman spent a short time in Edmonton where he took up boxing and worked as a detective. In 1926 he started north, travelling via the Athabasca and Mackenzie rivers. He spent time in Fort Chipewyan, Fort Smith, Arctic Red River (Tsiigehtchic), Fort McPherson, and Aklavik in the Northwest Territories, and travelled to Old Crow and then Whitehorse in the Yukon.  He was living in Fort McPherson in 1929 and helped the community during a flu epidemic. Nieman moved to Old Crow in June 1930 and lived and trapped there for ten years. In the early 1940s, he moved to Dawson and worked at a Bonanza Creek placer mine. He moved to Snag in 1942 and ran a trading post for the next five years. In Snag he met and married Agnes, a daughter of Copper Jack. The Niemans moved to Whitehorse in 1954 where they raised eight children and Nieman worked as a camp cook for mining exploration companies.((Yukon Archives, Paul Nieman biographical sketch, Paul Nieman fonds.))