William “Bill” Harris 
	
Bill Harris came to the Yukon in 1941 as a cypher clerk with the United States Air Transport Command during the Second World War. At that time communications were in code to protect them from the Japanese. When the system was discontinued, Bill was transferred to being a supervisor on the Northwest Airline DC3 cargo planes. He remembered seeing Russian women pilots deplaning to board waiting Lend Lease P40s planes. His wife Vivian spent the 1930s in Carmacks and Bill moved there after the war. Bill and his father-in-law, Ben Nelson, bought two Canol buildings at camp 491. They were 20' x 100' long and extremely strong and well built. They unbolted the roof and loaded it on a Reo, a flat-deck they purchased at Johnsons Crossing. The salvage took all summer and the roads were in poor shape. The stretch between Whitehorse and Carmacks took a week to travel, and they had to use chains in the mud. Bill used his section of the salvaged building as the original Carmacks Hotel and Ben Nelson used his section for his ranch nine miles south of Carmacks.((Patricia Ellis, //The Canol Adventures.// Gold island Consulting, 2008: 44; Bill Harris interview with Pat Ellis, MacBride Museum. 4 March 1992.))