Charlie Profeit (d. 1989)

Charlie Profeit worked for the British Yukon Navigation Co, (BYN) on the Mayo to Whitehorse run. He was a truck driver on the Aishihik Road for White Pass & Yukon Route, hauled wood with a tracked vehicle and sleighs in the Mayo region, and worked as a Cat operator in Keno. He was an equipment operator during the construction of the Alaska Highway. In 1953, he started seasonal work with the Yukon’s highway branch and, in 1958, took a permanent position with the branch in Mayo. In 1961, he was promoted to road foreman in Stewart Crossing and seven years later he became the northern area superintendent, a position he held for seventeen years. Charlie Profeit was named to the Yukon Transportation Hall of Fame in 1996, the first year of its creation.¹⁾