Hector Grant (1914 – 1959)

Hector Grant was born and went to school in Dawson. After graduation he worked for the Bank of Montreal both in Dawson and outside. He served during the Second World War from 1939 to 1946, joining the Fifth Division and being part of the time with the Signal Corp. He returned to Dawson and worked as an accountant with the Yukon Consolidated Gold Corp at Bear Creek. From 1949 to 1953, he was chief clerk in the Yukon government’s treasurer’s office. In 1953, he moved to the Dawson mining recorder’s’ office. During his time in Dawson he was a guiding light with the Yukon Order of Pioneers. Hector and his wife, Dawson-born Florence Catherine (McKinnon), moved to Whitehorse in 1958 where Hector was a departmental accountant.¹⁾