Barry Edward Bellchambers (1943 – 2013)
Barry Bellchambers was born in Latrobe, Tasmania and became captain of his senior school basketball team. After graduating he worked as an accountant trainee at a local pulp mill in his hometown of Ulverstone. 1) He started to travel, and apparently pioneered commercial submarines in Hawaii.2)
Bellchambers moved to Canada in 1967 at age 24. He lost all his money in a card game on the boat and landed penniless in Vancouver. He took a job offer as an accountant in Whitehorse and got off the plane with an umbrella at -40 degrees.3) In Whitehorse, he built the High Country Inn from the old YWCA building. He bought the old Lions Pool next door and turned it into a conference centre. He sold the hotel when his wife and partner Maggie Holt was diagnosed with cancer, and devoted himself to her recovery.4) He met Maggie created a number of business adventures together including diamond drilling, home building, mining at Livingstone, and real estate sales.5)
Barry Bellchambers became well known as an athlete in a number of sports and built a reputation as an entrepreneur and ambassador for the north.6)