Barry Edward Bellchambers (1943 – 2013)
	
Barry Bellchambers was born in Latrobe, Tasmania and became captain of his senior school basketball team. After graduating he worked as an accountant trainee at a local pulp mill in his hometown of Ulverstone. ((//Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), March 13, 2013.)) He started to travel, and apparently pioneered commercial submarines in Hawaii.((Jacqueline Ronson, “Bellchambers remembered for humour and vision.” //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 8 March 2013 and updated 27 June 2017.))
 	
Bellchambers moved to Canada in 1967 at age 24. He lost all his money in a card game on the boat and landed penniless in Vancouver. He took a job offer as an accountant in Whitehorse and got off the plane with an umbrella at -40 degrees.((//Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), March 13, 2013.)) In Whitehorse, he built the High Country Inn from the old YWCA building. He bought the old Lions Pool next door and turned it into a conference centre. He sold the hotel when his wife and partner Maggie Holt was diagnosed with cancer, and devoted himself to her recovery.((Jacqueline Ronson, “Bellchambers remembered for humour and vision.” //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 8 March 2013 and updated 27 June 2017.)) He met Maggie created a number of business adventures together including diamond drilling, home building, mining at Livingstone, and real estate sales.((//Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), March 13, 2013.)) 
	
Barry Bellchambers became well known as an athlete in a number of sports and built a reputation as an entrepreneur and ambassador for the north.((//Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), March 13, 2013.))