Yukon who is who

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John Peter “JP” Ross (1948 – 2008)
	
JP Ross was born in Winnipeg and was raised in Montreal. He graduated from McGill University with a BSc in biology. He came to the Yukon in the early 1970s to work at the United Keno Hill mine. Later he became a butterfly hunter for collectors and explored hills and mountains across the north. He was a self-taught prospector and was named Yukon Prospector of the Year in 1995 by the Yukon Prospector’s Association. Over the years, JP earned a reputation as one of Jim Robb’s Colourful Five Percent.((“John Peter “JP” Ross.” //The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 30 May 2008.)) 

In 2018, the JP Ross property in the high-grade White Gold District was owned by White Gold Corp.((“White Gold stakes additional claims around recent high grade gold discovery at the Vertigo target on JP Ross property and along mineralized trend.”  White Gold Corp. 2020 website: https://whitegoldcorp.ca/news/index.php?content_id=141.))