Yukon who is who

Alice Carthum, nee Fisher

Alice Fisher was raised in Mayo. He mother, “Ma” Fisher, ran a boarding house in the town.¹⁾ Alice Fisher received a teacher’s certificate from the British Columbia Department of Education.²⁾ She was the first teacher in Keno Hill.³⁾ In 1928, she was receiving a salary of $175 a month.⁴⁾ She taught at Keno until 1929 when Ted Bleiler took over. Alice Fisher and Con Carthum, a Treadwell Yukon employee, were married in 1937.⁵⁾