Peter Greenlaw (d. 2005)

Peter Greenlaw worked in Toronto in 1986 as an undercover policeman on the drug squad before coming to the Yukon. He spent twenty of his thirty years in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) primarily in Dawson and Whitehorse. He was involved in a wide range of youth programs from the Music, Arts and Drama program to coaching basketball and soccer. For the last decade he was the drug awareness coordinator for the police and the resident expert on a number of substance abuse committees, including the Foetal Alcohol Syndrome Society Yukon. Peter Greenlaw, a long-serving member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and an active community volunteer died of a rare disease, Wegener's Granulomatosis. Greenlaw was given a long-service award in 2004. Greenlaw was dedicated to the Millennium Trans-Canada Trail because of the opportunity to provide employment and skill development to youth.¹⁾ He as president of the Klondike Snowmobile Association for about ten years. In 2007, the association erected the plaque to recognize his love of nature and his enjoyment of sharing with family and community that spawned his vision to connect Yukon to the nation-wide trail.²⁾