Weldon McKenzie Pinchin (1935 - 2017)
	
Weldon Pinchin moved to Whitehorse from Vancouver with his family when he was eight years old. He left high school to get a job.((Ellen Davignon, “The Art of the Deal…” March 15, 2005. 2020 website: https://www.yukonbooks.com/shop/customer/feature_lives.php?feature_article_id=88&print_preview=1)) In 1949, Weldon worked on the //MV Loon,//  a British Yukon Navigation Co. motor launch that took soundings on the Yukon River for the company’s fleet of sternwheelers. Weldon liked stories and jokes, and one time wedged an old boiler into a sandbar at the head of Lake Laberge to convince tourists on the //SS Klondike// that it was where Robert Service’s Sam McGee was incinerated.((//Moccasin Telegraph,// 13 August 2017, #440)) 

In Vancouver, Pinchin owned a couple of successful service stations and was named BC’s Service magazine’s Man of the Year. He and his wife built a hotel on Mayne Island and, when the business and the marriage failed, he sailed around the world. In later years, he ran an investment business out of his Mayne home and travelled to lecture on a variety of subjects.((Ellen Davignon, “The Art of the Deal…” March 15, 2005. 2020 website: https://www.yukonbooks.com/shop/customer/feature_lives.php?feature_article_id=88&print_preview=1)) Pinchin was employed by the Great Pacific Management Co. Ltd in 1988 as a mutual fund salesman. He remained in this position until at least 1992.((British Columbia Securities Commission, 2020 website: https://www.bcsc.bc.ca/Enforcement/Settlements/Weldon_McKenzie_Pinchin___Agreed_Stmt_/))