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Donald “O.D.” Brown (1918 - 1985)

O.D. Brown served five years with the Irish Regiment of the Canadian Army [Primary Reserve infantry in Sudbury] and received a pension. He left Toronto and rode the rails [railway] for seventeen years before he arrived in the Yukon. He did several jobs in the Yukon and his trade was driving truck. He looked like an iconic sourdough and became a favourite target for tourist’s cameras and a model for Jim Robb’s artistry. He was a member of Jim’s Colourful Five Percent.1)

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Rick van Sickle. “One of the ‘colorful [sic] 5% dead.” The Whitehorse Star, 9 October 1985.
b/d_brown.txt · Last modified: 2024/10/07 12:29 by sallyr