Yukon who is who

Kenneth Baker (1925 – 2000)

Ken Baker served in the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War. He graduated in civil engineering from the Technical University of Nova Scotia in 1951. He joined the Canadian Army, Royal Canadian Engineers in Chilliwack. In 1952 he was posted to Whitehorse as a Bridge Engineer working on the Alaska Highway and became Territorial Engineer in 1955. Between 1959 and 1961 he worked as engineer for Proctor Construction building a 381-mile winter supply road for oil exploration north of the Arctic Circle. He returned to the Yukon government and served for another nineteen years, first as Director, then as Deputy Minister of the Department of Highways and Public Works. He retired in 1980. In 1981, he was awarded a life-time membership in the Association of Professional Engineers of the Yukon Territory, of which he was a charter member. In 1987, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Nova Scotia.¹⁾