Yukon who is who

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Charles William Clifton Tabor (1863 - 1917)
	
Charles Tabor was born in Fredericton, New Brunswick.((”Charles William Clifton Tabor.” //Find a Grave,// 2024 website: Charles William Clifton Tabor (1863-1917) - Find a Grave Memorial)) Tabor arrived in the Klondike in 1898 as a solicitor for the Bank of North America.((Michael Gates, “Diamond Tooth Gertie: from dance hall to prayer hall.” //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 11 April 2014; Dawson City Museum. 2018 website: 
https://tc.beta.gov.yk.ca/sites/default/files/dawson-cemeteries-walking-tour.pdf))  He worked in George Black’s office.((”Charles William Clifton Tabor.” //Find a Grave,// 2024 website: Charles William Clifton Tabor (1863-1917) - Find a Grave Memorial)) Tabor was one of fifteen members of the territorial bar living in the Yukon before the fall of 1898.((Hamar Foster and John McLaren, ed., "The Yukon Legal Profession" in //The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History Essays in the History of Canadian Law: Vol. VI British Columbia and the Yukon.// University of Toronto Press, 1995: 506fn180.)) He represented a large number of Yukon miners and mining companies.((”Charles William Clifton Tabor.” //Find a Grave,// 2024 website: Charles William Clifton Tabor (1863-1917) - Find a Grave Memorial))
	
Tabor was active in Dawson society and was a member and president of the Dawson Curling Club, as well as being a member of three fraternal organizations: the Yukon Order of Pioneers, the Eagles, and the Moose.((Michael and Kathy Gates, “Diamond Tooth Gertie: “Diamond Tooth Gertie: from dance hall to prayer hall.” //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 11 April 2014.)) He was a prominent lawyer in Dawson, a conservative, and a long-time friend of George and Martha Black. He and Gertie Lovejoy (“Diamond Tooth Gertie”) were married in 1901 in Portland, Oregon. Tabor served on the Yukon Territorial Council from 1912 to 1915 as the representative for North Dawson. He died in a fire at Dawson’s Yukonia Hotel when his wife was outside the territory. She was the sole beneficiary of his estate worth about $15,000.((Michael Gates, “Diamond Tooth Gertie: from dance hall to prayer hall.” //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 11 April 2014; Dawson City Museum. 2018 website: 
https://tc.beta.gov.yk.ca/sites/default/files/dawson-cemeteries-walking-tour.pdf))  
	
Tabor Lakes in northern Yukon are named for Charles Tabor.