Peter Foth (1912 – 2006)

Pete Foth was born in the Ukraine and immigrated to Canada with his family when he was twelve.¹⁾ He came to the Yukon from Saskatchewan via Vancouver in 1939 and worked for a farmer in Sunnydale that first summer for five dollars a day. That winter, he washed dishes and baked bread at a local café. He eventually got a job with Yukon Consolidated Gold Corp (YCGC) working on the dredges. He worked winter cutting wood and he contracted with the government to supply the Old Territorial Administration Building. After the war, he worked with the Clear Creek Placers and rose from deckhand to superintendent. Brownie came north as a nurse and worked at the hospital for ten months before marrying Pete. The Clear Creek dredge shut down in 1966 and Pete started a thirteen-year career with Canada Customs which took him from Dawson, to Beaver Creek, to Whitehorse, and back to Dawson. The Foths had a family placer mine and daughters Debbie and Lynne learned to shovel and pan. Pete retired in 1977 and the couple spent the winters in White Rock, British Columbia.²⁾