Alice Carthum, nee Fisher Alice Fisher was raised in Mayo. He mother, “Ma” Fisher, ran a boarding house in the town.((Shannon Cooper, "Elsa School Reunion: History of Elsa School." Unpublished manuscript, July 1996.)) Alice Fisher received a teacher’s certificate from the British Columbia Department of Education.((Yukon Archives, RG1 Series 4, Vol 19, f. 360.)) She was the first teacher in Keno Hill.((Shannon Cooper, "Elsa School Reunion: History of Elsa School." Unpublished manuscript, July 1996.)) In 1928, she was receiving a salary of $175 a month.((Yukon Archives, RG1 Series 4, Vol 19, f. 360.)) She taught at Keno until 1929 when Ted Bleiler took over. Alice Fisher and Con Carthum, a Treadwell Yukon employee, were married in 1937.((Shannon Cooper, "Elsa School Reunion: History of Elsa School." Unpublished manuscript, July 1996.))