Dennis “Dinny” O’Connor (d. ~1939)

Dinny O'Connor was a teamster, jitney driver, and a blacksmith for the White Pass & Yukon Route during the winter, and during the summers he worked as a commissary driver, transporting supplies to the British Yukon Navigation (BYN) steamers. He was a truck driver for White Pass in Whitehorse when there were few vehicles in the city. The O'Connor House was built in Whitehorse for Dennis O'Connor about 1906. His duties included dumping lamp black on [Lake Laberge] river ice to encourage the spring thaw. He died just before the start of the Second World War.¹⁾