Victor Ignatius Hahn (1868 - 1958)

Victor Hahn was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He arrived in Skagway in May 1898 and worked as a draftsman. He became Superintendent of the White Pass & Yukon Route (WP&YR) railway in 1906 and worked for the company until 1947 [1945].¹⁾ Hahn designed the train station at Bennett, snow shed, docks and the dam below Marsh Lake for WP&YR. He may have also designed the original Whitehorse train depot.²⁾ Superintendent Hahn left the employ of the White Pass & Yukon Route at the end of May 1945 after forty-seven years of service.³⁾