Danny Roberts, Ka-da-te'h (1925 - 2000)
	  
Danny Roberts was born and raised at Fort Selkirk. His father, Luke, cut wood for the steamers in the summer and trapped in the winter.((Beverly Smith, “Danny Roberts.” //Yukon Indian News,// 23 August 1985 in //In Their Honor,// Ye Sa To Communications Society, Whitehorse, 1989: 38-39.)) Danny also made his living at Selkirk cutting wood, working on the boats, trapping and working at the nearby Pelly River Ranch.((Justine Davidson, “A Yukon ghost town comes back to life.” //Whitehorse Daily Star// (Whitehorse), 13 July 2011. 2019 website:  https://www.whitehorsestar.com/News/a-yukon-ghost-town-comes-back-to-life))  He took the odd trip into Pelly to socialize but had only been to Whitehorse three times by 1985. He could not believe the changes between visits. Roberts never owned a vehicle and thought the use of snowmobiles made modern trapper weak.  In the summer, he travelled mostly by boat.((Beverly Smith, “Danny Roberts.” //Yukon Indian News,// 23 August 1985 in //In Their Honor,// Ye Sa To Communications Society, Whitehorse, 1989: 38-39.))

In 1980, Danny was hired by Yukon Historic Sites as the caretaker and interpreter on site at Fort Selkirk, a job he did for twenty years.((Justine Davidson, “A Yukon ghost town comes back to life.” //Whitehorse Daily Star// (Whitehorse), 13 July 2011. 2019 website:  https://www.whitehorsestar.com/News/a-yukon-ghost-town-comes-back-to-life))  Danny, his wife Abby, and their daughter Lois greeted canoeists and kayakers who stopped at the historic site. Roberts was instrumental in piecing together Fort Selkirk’s history for today’s interpreters.((Pamela Klaffke, “Yukon Rising.” 3 June 2015. Canada’s History 2019 website: https://www.canadashistory.ca/explore/travel/yukon-rising))