Les Millen (d. 1967)

The Millen family lived in the old telegraph office in Dawson City in the mid-1950s and 1960s. Daughter Louiza Maguire said the house was haunted when they were living there. The Millens lived in the house until Les Millen’s accidental death in September 1967. He was the customs agent and his wife, Jackie, was a nurse. They came to Dawson and were married there in the 1930s. Maguire says the ghost was around before their predecessors, the Grants, lived in the house. John Gould says the telegraph office was moved from Front Street to it present location by Bob Mclaren after the telegraph office equipment was moved into the Post Office around 1908. Jim Williams, the contractor, says it was owned by the federal government until the Yukon government took it over in the early 1980s. Maguire says several people have lived in the house since the Millens, but no one stayed for long.¹⁾ In recent years, the Millan House was a residence for the director of the Dawson City Museum.