George Wuksanovich (b. 1880)
	
George Wuksanovich was born in Montenegro. He was a labourer in Dawson when he enlisted for service in the First World War.((Attestation Paper, Library and Archives Canada.)) Wuksanovich accompanied George Black and two hundred and twenty-five other Yukoners overseas to fight on the Western Front. Private Wuksanovich fought with the Canadian Expeditionary Force, Yukon Infantry Company, in 1917.((Yukon Archives, PAM 1917-0015))

In 1922, in Jasper, Alberta, Wuksanovich was charged with killing a man with a knife during a labour dispute. He was put on trial in Edmonton and found guilty. Black had travelled from Ottawa by train for the trial, and he gave an impassioned plea on behalf of the war veteran. Despite this, Wuksanovich was sentenced to ten years hard labour at Prince Albert Penitentiary as a lesson to foreigners who dared to cause trouble in Canada.((Michael Gates, //From the Klondike to Berlin: The Yukon in World War I.// Madeira Park B.C.: Harbour Publishing Co. Ltd., 2017: 219; Michael Gates, “History Hunter: The long – but satisfying – search for truth in history.” //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 12 March 2020.)) Later newspaper accounts of the trial confused Wuksanovich with Mike Zarkovich who was charged with murder in Edmonton about the same time.((Thanks to Michael Gates to his contributions to this biography in June 2020.))