Yukon who is who

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Gordon “Scully” Scollon
	
Gordon Scollon was born in northern Saskatchewan. He worked on the construction of the Dempster Highway and met his wife, Helen, in Dawson when he was 36 and she was 17. They had a home in Burnaby for a time and he built furniture there. They would spend the summer in the Yukon and the winter outside.((David Dubois, “Kluane – Beautiful Land, Beautiful People” in //Kluane Lake Country People Speak Strong.// Kluane First Nation, 2023: 339.)) 

Scully was hired to clear land for the gas pipeline along the Alaska Highway and Burwash Landing became his Yukon home. He made bowls from the burls he found on trees in the Burwash area and sold them to tourists and highway travellers. In later years he worked with his brother-in-law. Helen died when Scully was in his 80s and he left Burwash for Edmonton where he made canes.((David Dubois, “Kluane – Beautiful Land, Beautiful People” in //Kluane Lake Country People Speak Strong.// Kluane First Nation, 2023: 339.))