Paul Lucier (1930 – 1999)
	
Paul Lucier was born in LaSalle, Ontario to Adolf Lucier and Claire Laframboise.((“Paul Lucier.” //Wikipedia,// 2021 website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Lucier)) Lucier came to the Yukon in 1949 and worked as a deckhand of the sternwheeler //Klondike.// In the mid-1950s he was a driver with the Army Service Corp. He became deeply involved with Whitehorse sports and coached the Town Merchants hockey team. After the Army left Whitehorse, Lucier became a Whitehorse fireman.((Les McLaughlin, “Paul Lucier.” Hougen Group of Companies 2019 website: http://hougengroup.com/yukon-history/yukon-nuggets/paul-lucier/))
	
Lucier was elected as a City of Whitehorse alderman in 1964 and 1965. He ran for mayor in 1966 but was defeated by Howard Firth. In 1970, he was again elected as an alderman, and in 1974 he was elected as mayor. He was ready to run again for mayor but in 1975 he was chosen by Pierre Trudeau to be the first Senator representing the Yukon. He sat as a Liberal but did not always follow the party line, opposing gun control and the implementation of the GST tax. Lucier was a strong supporter of Yukon land claims.((Les McLaughlin, “Paul Lucier.” Hougen Group of Companies 2019 website: http://hougengroup.com/yukon-history/yukon-nuggets/paul-lucier/)) 
	
The Faro lead-zinc mine closed in 1982 and in the next year Lucier worked with John Munro to enact changes to the Unemployment Insurance rules so that the unemployed mine workers could get the standard benefits and then get their salaries topped up by the mine operator so they could strip the land ready for reopening the mine. In 1986, the mine did reopen and it was much faster into production than if the work had not be done.((Jason Small, “Lucier remembered as ‘very caring person’.”((//The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 26 July 1999.)) Senator Lucier died in Penticton, British Columbia while still in office.((“Paul Lucier.” //Wikipedia,// 2021 website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Lucier))