Bobo Larocque (1931 – 2007)
	
Bobo Laroque was born in Ontario and, as a young boy, worked at his uncle’s farm in Timmons. He also worked on Saturdays at a slaughterhouse that killed 60-100 pigs daily. He arrived in the Yukon in 1962 as a miner and was part of the start-up of every Yukon mine except the one at Keno already in operation.((“Profiles of Yukon Agriculturalists.” Yukon Archives, Yukon Agricultural Association coll, Box 1, f.35.))
	
Bobo Larocque was a mining teacher with the Yukon Government for seven years and he trained 252 men to become hardrock miners. He was a capable miner himself and worked twenty-six years in mines in Quebec, Ontario, and Yukon. Shaft sinking was his speciality, but he also drove raises and drifts.((Ed Andre, //Heroes of Darkness.// Whitehorse: Northbrush Publications Ltd. 1996: 27.))
	
Bobo and his wife Gail owned and operated the Cinnamon Cache Bakery outside Carcross.((Ed Andre, //Heroes of Darkness.// Whitehorse: Northbrush Publications Ltd. 1996: 27.)) They lived on the shore of Spirit Lake, on a 17-acre parcel. Bobo was an organic farmer who conditioned his soil with mature and green manure. He believed that seventeen acres was enough to be a small scale intensive farmer. He and Gail had a successful green house and market garden. He seeded his tomatoes and cucumbers directly into the greenhouse and channelled solar energy through a unique system of tubes and wires. They harvested extremely large yields of tomatoes and cucumbers mid-way through the summer.((“Profiles of Yukon Agriculturalists.” Yukon Archives, Yukon Agricultural Association coll, Box 1, f.35.))