Gordon Donnelly (b. 1934)
	
Gordon Donnelly was a supervisor at the Ridgeview Home for Children that operated in Porter Creek in the 1960s. The Home was a hostel, or residence, where status and non-statis Indian [First Nation] children were placed. It was run by individuals affiliated with the Baptist Church.((“Whitehorse orphanage victims file lawsuit.” //CBC News,// 19 October 2009. 2021 website: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/whitehorse-orphanage-victims-file-lawsuit-1.807359.))
	
Donnelly was convicted in 1989 of five criminal counts of abusing children in his care in British Columbia. The Yukon and federal governments removed the children from their parents put them in the Ridgeway Home. They should have known of Donnelly’s history of child abuse. A lawsuit in 2009 accused both governments of doing nothing after learning about the abuses committed, continuing to deny any responsibility, and refusing or failing to provide the plaintiffs with compensation or treatment.((Chuck Tobin, “Defendant’s behaviour ‘repugnant’, suit says.” //Whitehorse Daily Star// (Whitehorse), 19 October 2009.))