Yukon who is who

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Olaf “Ole” Wickstrom (1889-1963)
	
Ole Wickstrom was born in Sweden and came to Canada in 1925. He settled in the Yukon in the 1920s and lived in Burwash, Big Salmon, Tanana Wreck [Reef?], and Whitehorse.((Margaret Crook, Norma L. Felker, and Helen Horback, //Lost Graves.// City of Whitehorse, 1989: 135.)) Olof Wickstrom had a wood camp at Tanana Reef on the Thirtymile River in the 1940s. In February 1942, he came into Whitehorse with Bob Jones and his dog team. It took them four and a half days to make the trip.((//The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 13 February 1942.)) 
	
In the early 1940s, Wickstrom was the road foreman for the Whitehorse district. The United States Army wanted a rough road on the east side of the Yukon River widened to accommodate its vehicles and Wickstrom did the work. The road diverging from Hospital Road is called Wickstrom Road after Ole. The road becomes the Long Lake Road at the Church of the Latter Day Saints and continues on to the Livingstone Creek Trail at Lake Laberge.((Delores Smith, “Wickstrom built the road opposite town.” //The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 2 November 1994.))
	
In 1963, Ole was working as a caretaker at the White River Lodge on the Alaska Highway.((Margaret Crook, Norma L. Felker, and Helen Horback, //Lost Graves.// City of Whitehorse, 1989: 135.))