Carl Chase Miller (1904 - 1964)

Carl Miller was born in Bridgetown, Nova Scotia. He moved to Alberta in 1926 when he was twenty-two. Carl, his brother Max, and Bill Teare filed for homesteads in 1937. In 1934, Carl, Bill and Carl White travelled over the Dalton Trail to prospect and mine just south of the post. It was not good ground so after a couple of years they started mining and trapping in the Mount Freegold area. Carl moved to Mayo and worked with the Yukon government building and maintaining roads and the Mayo airstrip. Miller was the Whitehorse fire chief in 1943. Carl and Vera Breaden were married in Mayo in 1941 and they lived in Vancouver, Dawson, Mayo, and Carmacks before settling in Whitehorse in 1953. Carl worked for the Corps of Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers located at the bottom of Two Mile Hill. In 1962, he bought land near Breaburn and was clearing the land for agriculture when he died in 1964.¹⁾