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Giovanni Vanacore
	
Giovanni Vanacore was born in Italy. He was known by everyone in Mayo and Keno as "Johnny Vinegar." He is listed in Polk’s 1923/24 directory as a gardener for Frank Doyea who had a greenhouse in Mayo. He was a miner at Wernecke Camp before farming his property near the Mayo airport. He grew raspberries and made wine from them as well as blueberries and dandelions. He also was known for his good home-brewed beer. He supplied Mayo with carrots, potatoes, turnips and cabbages in the 1930s and 1940s.((Linda E.T. MacDonald and Lynette R. Bleiler, //Gold & Galena.// Mayo Historical Society, 1990: 463-64.))
	
In 1945, John Abbott and staff from the Mile Post 1019 Experimental Station travelled to Mayo and visited a Mr. Vanicot [Vanacore]. It was noted that Johnny was cultivating a mining claim located on the road to Keno, about a mile outside of Mayo. He had two acres of potatoes and considered a yield of less than three tons of potatoes per acre was a failure. He grew most common vegetables including excellent cabbages and cauliflower. He did some experiments with wild fruit and had many wild raspberries saying they were hardier than the domestic variety.((“Report on an Agricultural Survey of the Dawson -Mayo District of the Yukon Territory, 1945.” Yukon Archives, Yukon Agricultural Association files.))

There is a photo of Johnny Vinegar, Louis Cantin, Joe Cantin and Alex Nicol in Mayo, circa 1930s-40s.((Yukon Archives, Bill Hare fonds #6980.))