Harry Boyle

Harry Boyle became the editor and owner of the Whitehorse Star newspaper in 1954. The office was a shack on Main Street and the editorial office was an uninsulated garage behind it. The Star’s motto was Illegitimus non Carborundum, loosely translated as “don't let the bastards grind you down.“¹⁾

In 1960, Bob Erlam drew a cartoon of a dispute between a local resident and the electric company and pinned it to the door of the Whitehorse Star. Based on this, Boyle asked Erlam to work at the paper. In 1963, Erlam got a note from Boyle saying he was now in charge as Boyle was going back to law school. Bob took over as publisher and then bought the Star with Rusty in 1967. The Erlams owned the Whitehorse Star for thirty-five years.²⁾ Boyle studied law in British Columbia and went on to become a judge in the British Columbia Supreme Court.³⁾ In the mid-1990s, a selection of his letters was published in a booklet for young lawyers by the Legal Services Society.⁴⁾