Charles Edwin "Ed" Bleiler (1911 - 2003)
	
Ed Bleiler was born in Mannville, Alberta in 1911 and was the fifth child of William and Eugena Bleiler. ((//Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 3 October 2003.)) He left Edmonton in 1933 during the depression. He was 22, had two years of pharmacy and no money to continue his education. He joined his brother Ted, and they mined together on Dublin Gulch.  Mining there was hard with little return.((//Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 19 October 1983)) He left Dublin to work on Highet Creek where he met his wife Flora, the youngest daughter of Elmer and Nellie Middlecoff, and they were married in 1936.((//Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 3 October 2003.)) 

Ed Bleiler joined his father-in-law, Elmer Middlecoff, to mine on Highet Creek. They stopped work during WWII as there was a shortage of labourers. Most of the small mining companies had disappeared by 1957 but they decided to go back and mine, and the creek showed a profit after they got the proper equipment.((//Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 19 October 1983)) Ed and Flora worked until 1984 when the operation was taken over by their son Lowell. Ed and Flora had two children, Lowell (Lyn) and Sybil (Mike Edwards), and raised them in Mayo and Whitehorse. Flora died in 1968. Several years later Ed married Martha De Alba of Mazatlan. He and Martha spent twenty winters at their home in Mexico and returned to Mayo for the summer mining seasons.((//Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 3 October 2003.))