Frederick Warren Cane (b. 1849)

Dr. Frederick Warren Cane was originally from Newmarket, Ontario. He worked as a postmaster in Toronto before coming north to work as Bennett City's first postmaster. Dr. Cane was transferred from the Postmaster's office at Bennett on July 1, 1900 to become the first postmaster in Whitehorse. He was also a qualified medical doctor and acted as the relief doctor when the one resident doctor in the southern Yukon was called away. Cane built a house on Elliot Street in Whitehorse for his bride Miss D. Livingstone who was his first assistant. Cane returned to Ontario in 1912 to resume his medical practice full time at the age of sixty-three.¹⁾