Peter Milner (d. 2005)
Peter Milner was a high calibre rower in his youth, winning a bronze medal for Quebec at the 1969 Canada Summer Games. He moved to the Yukon in the 1980s.1)
Milner was the Yukon Government director of sport and recreation from 1988 to 2001. He established the Youth Investment Fund, the Kids Recreation Fund, the Youth Leadership Program, and helped develop a Yukon Aboriginal Sport Circle to represent the interests of Yukon First Nations in sports. He served on the Inter-provincial Sport and Recreation Council and was the Provincial/Territorial Co-Chair of the F-P/T Physical Activity and Recreation Committee. He was a founding member of the Great Northern Ski Society and was its first president. He was a founder of the Marsh Lake Loppet in 1995 and helped to organize the event for ten years. Milner was the driving force behind Yukon getting to host the 2007 Canada Winter Games. Peter Milner was inducted into the Sport Yukon Hall of Fame in 2006.2)
Peter Milner was often a competitor in the Kluane Chilkat International Bike Relay; part of the four-member team called the Soggy Bottom Boys. He also played the banjo in a bluegrass band, Disturbing the Peace.3) A plaque in Milner’s memory was installed at the Yukon College Family Residence in 2010.4)