Oscar Nordling Oscar Nordling was born in Sweden. He was an older brother to [a sister], Otto, and Tory [Tore?], born in Sweden, and Axel and a sister [Evelyn], born in Dawson.((Linda E.T. MacDonald and Lynette R. Bleiler, //Gold & Galena.// Mayo Historical Society, 1990: 433.)) He mined on Keno Hill in the 1920s and then moved to Dawson where he worked as a dredge master for Yukon Consolidated Gold Corporation until the outbreak of the Second World War.((Linda E.T. MacDonald and Lynette R. Bleiler, //Gold & Galena.// Mayo Historical Society, 1990: 433.))