Gordon Alexander McIntyre (b. 1910)
	
Gordon McIntyre was born in Dawson to parents Ida and Angus McIntyre. Angus got a job in Mayo with Pickering and Greenfeld in 1920 and Gordon, his mother, and two sisters, moved to Whitehorse. The family moved to Vancouver in 1924 when Angus’ contract finished. When Angus returned to the Yukon, the family stayed in Vancouver where Gordon went to school. He graduated from high school in 1929 just when the depression hit. His sisters, Hazel and Edna, had their salaries halved and his father was laid off at the end of his contract. Gordon kept his after-school job as a sub-manager of fifteen newspaper carriers and cashed in his war bonds to pay for Provincial Normal School. ((Darrell Hookey, "Gordon McIntyre, Yukoner." //The Yukoner Magazine,// No. 4 May 1997: 31-40.))

After two terms he got a job teaching in a small British Columbia town. The living conditions forced him to resign, and he became a substitute teacher in Vancouver for the rest of the year. The next year, he took book-keeping, shorthand, and typing at the Britannia Annex High School of Commerce.((Darrell Hookey, "Gordon McIntyre, Yukoner." //The Yukoner Magazine,// No. 4 May 1997: 31-40.)) 

In 1932, he received a letter from the Commissioner of the Yukon, a friend of his father's, offering him a position in the Yukon. He moved to Mayo where there was little money for frills. He paid for baseballs and bats out of his salary. He was given a box of chalk, some foolscap and construction paper. The desks were second-hand from Dawson and the texts were old and out-of-date. Gordon had from fifteen to forty students from grades 1 to 8. Most students went to work after grade 8 - driving truck or cutting wood. Most of the girls got married within two or three years.((Darrell Hookey, "Gordon McIntyre, Yukoner." //The Yukoner Magazine,// No. 4 May 1997: 31-40.))
	
McIntyre was soon approached by territorial councillor Tommy MacKay, who was concerned about the lack of opportunities for Mayo youth. He convinced Mctyre to run a course for some female students who were interested in secretarial training.((Kevin Shackell, “Little red schoolhouse a long time ago for Gordon MacIntyre.” //The Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 29 November 1982.)) For two years, Gordon taught four young girls bookkeeping, typing, and shorthand after school and this was the first vocational school in the Yukon. He lived in a one-room cabin for a couple of months and then boarded at Mary Fisher's for $60 a month. He was paid double what a teacher in Vancouver was paid and had $115 a month left to spend. Ma Fisher also served dinner to five to other men including Joe Longtin (who delivered water for 25 cents for two buckets), Bill Hutchings (bank manager), and Dr. Allen Duncan (hired by a miner and operating a family practice as well). They listened to tales of the gold rush as told by Jim Fairborn, the White Pass & Yukon Route agent, and Dr. Randolph Maclennan, a member of the old 1905 Dawson City Nuggets hockey team.((Darrell Hookey, "Gordon McIntyre, Yukoner." //The Yukoner Magazine,// No. 4 May 1997: 31-40.)) The territorial government couldn’t afford school inspectors so former teacher and the Yukon’s comptroller, George Jeckell, would drop in whenever he was in town.((Kevin Shackell, “Little red schoolhouse a long time ago for Gordon MacIntyre.” //The Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 29 November 1982.))
	
By 1937, Ma Fisher was gone to live with her daughter in California and two years later Great Britain declared war on Germany. Gordon signed up for George Black's Yukon contingent but that was not how things were done in this war. In the spring of 1941, he read about the First Survey Regiment of the Royal Canadian Artillery and wrote offering his services. In July, he was authorized to report for enlistment. He took the //SS Keno// down the Stewart River but missed the big boat, so he rowed a small boat to Dawson with a young Japanese man. In the Yukon, the Japanese were not detained in camps. McIntyre had basic training in Vernon, British Columbia and was then transferred to Petawawa for advanced artillery survey training. In England, he was assigned to assist a personnel officer administer intelligence and suitability tests to troops all over southern England. The next year he was assigned to the Royal Canadian Legion's education service, helping officer candidates brush up on their math. Bombardier McIntyre was sent to North Africa, when the invasion of Italy began, to help the soldiers with their correspondence courses. He also typed up, and distributed, news reports from the BBC. He followed the front lines through Europe to Holland and VE Day.((Darrell Hookey, "Gordon McIntyre, Yukoner." //The Yukoner Magazine,// No. 4 May 1997: 31-40.))  

Jack "Pop" Hulland then submitted an industrial Discharge Request to speed up the discharge for servicemen needed for civilian employment. There was already a teacher in place at Gordon's old job, so he was offered the position of assistant liquor vendor and a year later became the mining recorder when Sam Wood resigned. He also acted as the coroner and justice of the peace. In 1965, he got a job as mining recorder and supervisor of lands for the Whitehorse district. He held several positions until 1974 when he retired at the age of 64 so he could represent the Mayo district on the Yukon Territorial Council. The Council was the last one free of political parties. After the cabinet was chosen, everyone else was the opposition.((Darrell Hookey, "Gordon McIntyre, Yukoner." //The Yukoner Magazine,// No. 4 May 1997: 31-40.))
	
He was briefly in the Executive Council, then acted as Chair of the Committees, and was appointed as Deputy Speaker in February 1978. He ran again in 1978 but was defeated in a close race. During his residence in Mayo, McIntyre served as justice of the peace and then as juvenile court judge for the Mayo District. He married Ruth Audrey in Mayo in 1955 and they had three children Angus, Mary, and Norman. Mrs. McIntyre was also a teacher and taught at the Vocational School and was first Assistant Principal when the Mayo school opened. She was previously employed at FH Collins in the same capacity. The McIntyres retired in Whitehorse.((Heritage Structures Inventory for Mayo Keno and Elsa. Research binder. Yukon Historic Sites, 2001.))
	
In 2010, Gordon McIntyre received the History Maker award from the Yukon Historical and Museums Association (YHMA) for his collection of early Mayo photographs, and for his strong interest in Yukon history. The Dawson City Museum holds McIntyre’s collection of text and photographs in their archives.((Dawson City Museum, “Gordon Alexander McIntyre fonds.” Bio sketch, 2019 website: http://www.dawsonmuseum.ca/archives/fonds-descriptions/?id=12))