Sam Holloway (b. 1947)
	
Sam Holloway was born in Ottawa and moved to northern Manitoba in the mid-1960s. He went from there to the Northwest Territories and arrived in the Yukon in 1974.((“New magazine focuses on tales of the Yukon.” //The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 12 December 1989.)) He flew all over the north as a travelling technician for the Northern Canada Power Commission.((Sam Holloway, “Tales from the Yukon Reader: The Best Airplane Ever Built.” //The Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 18 March 1994.))
	
For some time, Sam worked as a columnist at //The Whitehorse Star.// In 1989, he and local entrepreneur and auto merchant Moe Parent started their joint venture //The Yukon Reader.// The magazine’s goal was to tell the everyday stories of the Yukon. Writers were paid for their submissions and Sam received a salary for his role as editor-in-chief.((“New magazine focuses on tales of the Yukon.” //The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 12 December 1989.)) 
	
In January 1993, Sam’s magazine took on a new format, a smaller page but just as packed with local stories. The magazine, now printed in the Yukon, continued to live up to its byline “Recording the spirit and the times of the far northwest.” Frank McLaughlin remained a contributing editor and Dianne Green was the subscription editor. In August 1993, Sam’s editorial confessed that despite promising an issue six times a year, in only one year had they come fairly close with five thin issues. Sam’s quirky style of publishing matched the stories he published.((Sam Holloway, “From The Editor’s Desk, Trying to Beat Yukon Time.” //The Yukon Reader.// Number 17, 31 August 1994.))
	
Sam Holloway was honoured by the Yukon Historical & Museums Association in 1992 when he won their heritage award for his magazine and published booklets.  But it was too soon to congratulate Sam on his lifetime achievements. In 1995, Sam traded an old Dodge truck for a small, second-hand printing press and the premier issue of //The Yukoner Magazine// came out in July 1996. The last issue this writer owns is No. 31, April 2006 and I am always on the lookout for missing issues. A number of the stories in this Who Is Who collection of brief biographies come from Sam and Dianne’s magazines so everyone is encouraged to go to the source.