Anton Kosuta (1926 - 2018)
	
Anton Kosuta was born in Ozeljian, Yugoslavia (now Slovenia). He was conscripted into the Italian army in 1942 at age sixteen and, after Italy capitulated in 1943, he joined the Yugoslav partisans. He crossed over to the free zone of Trieste in 1947. He immigrated to Canada in 1951 and worked for a few years in the mines of northern Ontario and Quebec. He found work in his trade of stone mason and brick layer in Jasper, Alberta before meeting Yugoslav immigrants in Edmonton who were going to Dawson to work for the Yukon Consolidated Gold Corp (YCGC) dredges for the summer. He came north for a few years and then settled in the Yukon. Anton sent for his future wife Victoria, still in Europe, and they were married at Bear Creek in 1958.((//Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 6 July 2018; “David John Kosuta.” //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 19 August 2018.))

The family moved to Dawson after YCGC shut down [1966] and Anton worked briefly for the town and on Yukon highways before going mining for himself at Hunker Creek and with his son at Clear Creek. Anton and Victoria moved to Whitehorse in 1993 and Anton stopped mining in 2016 at the age of ninety. He was predeceased by wife Victoria (2017), son Vincent (2011), and son David John (2018).((//Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 6 July 2018; “David John Kosuta.” //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 19 August 2018.))