L. A. Vinal (1882 – 1942) L. A. Vinal came to the Yukon in 1903 and served with the North-West Mounted Police for a while. In 1942 he was assistant postmaster in Whitehorse. He died of an apparent heart attack while talking to a friend in the Burns & Co. store.((//The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 6 March 1942.))