Ken Adair (1914 - 1967)

Ken Adair was born in Alberta and came to the Yukon from Barrhead, Alberta in the mid-1940s. He worked with Jean Jacquot at Burwash Landing and drove trucks on the Alaska Highway. He worked in Dawson as a woodcutter for the Alaska Gold Company. He built a cabin on the Flat Creek hill during the winter of 1948-49 and worked for Clear Creek Dredging with Bill Scott until the dredge was mothballed in 1950. His future wife Daisy moved to Whitehorse in 1949 and got a job in Dawson at the hospital. She met Ken when he broke his leg, and they were married in Mayo in 1950. ((Linda E.T. MacDonald and Lynette R. Bleiler, //Gold & Galena.// Mayo Historical Society, 1990: 218.))