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Thomas A. Retallack (1914 - 2002)
	
Tom Retallack went to the NWT in 1935 as a fur trader with the Hudson's Bay Co. He came to the Yukon in 1943 with the Hudson’s Bay Co. (HBC) as a post manager at Stewart River.(("Thomas A. Retallack." //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 2 September 2005.)) He managed the HBC store at the mouth of the Stewart River from 1943 to 1945.((Linda E.T. MacDonald and Lynette R. Bleiler, //Gold & Galena.// Mayo Historical Society, 1990: 30.)) The HBC did not extend credit and gave poor prices for fur. Retallack was the only man who gave a decent price. The factors were poorly paid, about $90 per month, and the clerks got $30 or $60 a month. When the Second World War started, most HBC employees quit for better paying jobs elsewhere.((Rudy Burian was interviewed by Cal Waddington for Parks and Historic Sites, July - September 1978. Yukon River Aural History Project. Yukon Archives, Acc # 81/32)) The telegraph operator left in the spring of 1946 and Tom and his wife Athol became operators.((Joyce Yardley, //Yukon Riverboat Days.// Surrey B.C.: Hancock House, 1996: 56-60.))
	
Retallack was transferred to Manitoba and Ontario in 1946 and then returned to the Yukon in 1952 as store manager of the Northern Commercial Co. (NC Co.) in Mayo. He was transferred to Dawson with the NC Co. where he was store manager until he became the Hospital Administrator in Dawson. Tom moved to Whitehorse as Lands Administrator for the Yukon until he and Athol retired to Abbotsford British Columbia. Tom was Master of the Masonic Lodge in Dawson City, Deputy Grand Master of the Lodge for Yukon and Atlin, a member of the Yukon Order of Pioneers, and was involved in other business and civic organizations. He was survived by his brother, sons Tom (Carol) and Keith (Laurie), and granddaughter Julia. Tom was predeceased by wife his Athol, daughter Marylynn, two sisters and two brothers.(("Thomas A. Retallack." //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 2 September 2005.))