Keith Byram
	
Keith Byram is a professional engineer who worked for Defence Construction Ltd. before moving to the Yukon in 1969. He worked in Whitehorse as Design and Construction Engineer for the Department of Public Works. He was responsible for reconstruction and maintenance of the Alaska Highway from Mile 83 to the Alaska border, and for construction of the Dempster Highway. In 1976, he and four partners took over General Enterprises. They constructed eighteen miles of the Dempster Highway north of the Eagle River bridge.((“Roy Keith Byram, P.Eng.” Engineers Yukon, 2020 website: https://www.apey.yk.ca/prominent_yukon_engineers.php?e=Roy+Keith+Byram%2C+P.+Eng.))
	
Byram was working for General Enterprises when the Yukon economy crashed in the 1980s. Byram moved to Alaska with his employer and when he returned to the Yukon in 1987, he changed General Enterprises into Pelly Construction.((James Munson, “Minto Mine plays it safe.” //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 27 February 2009.)) He also became president of Kluane Construction and R.K. Byram Engineering.((“Roy Keith Byram, P.Eng.” Engineers Yukon, 2020 website: https://www.apey.yk.ca/prominent_yukon_engineers.php?e=Roy+Keith+Byram%2C+P.+Eng.))
	
Pelly Construction was a staple of the Yukon economy for years. They built roads throughout the Yukon, especially in lean times. When the economy was booming, Pelly worked for mines, removing overburden from open-pit mines and built mining infrastructure, prepared ore and shipped it to market. In 1990, Pelly Construction won a contract with the British Government to build a 900m air strip on a peninsula of Adelaide Island about 1,600 km south of Cape Horn. The crew was self-sufficient with enough food to last two years. In the early 2000s, Pelly worked mainly out of the territory with two major contracts in British Columbia with Vancouver-based Western Canadian Coal Corp. In the Yukon, Pelly Construction has a long history with the Minto mining property near Pelly Crossing. They levelled the ground for the mine's camp and mill sites and constructed an earth dam.((Graeme McElheran, "Pelly Construction poised to ride the mining wave." //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 24 February 2006.)) They had a contract for all heavy-duty work done at the mine. In 2009, the company had sixty workers at Minto and more than a hundred in Chetwynd, British Columbia.((James Munson, “Minto Mine plays it safe.” //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 27 February 2009.))
	
Keith Byram has served as the Chair of the Yukon Hospital Foundation and the Yukon Territorial Water Board. He has been a member of the Association of Yukon Engineers since 1970, and twice served as president.((“Roy Keith Byram, P.Eng.” Engineers Yukon, 2020 website: https://www.apey.yk.ca/prominent_yukon_engineers.php?e=Roy+Keith+Byram%2C+P.+Eng.)) Keith was inducted into the Order of the Yukon in 2020 for his demonstrated excellence and achievement and his outstanding contributions to the social, cultural or economic well-being of Yukon and its residents.((“Congratulations.” //Deslin Neek,// Issue 60, December 2020: 20.))