Bertram Arthur “Art” Deer (1928 - 2012)
Art Deer was born in Edmonton, Alberta. In 1947-48 he worked for the Ottawa Citizen newspaper, where his father was a typesetter, and then he joined the RCMP. He trained at Regina and Rockcliffe and then volunteered for northern service. He had short postings at Winnipeg and Brandon and arrived in the Yukon in June 1949. He was posted to Whitehorse, Haines Junction, and Watson Lake and carried out highway patrols from 1949 to 1953. He was posted to Frobisher Bay from 1953 to 1956. He married Faye in Edmonton in 1956. He was posted to Ottawa and Yorkton before moving back north to Baker Lake (1960-1963), Whitehorse (1964-1966), and Inuvik (1966-1969). He returned to Whitehorse in the fall of 1969 as staff sergeant and retired in 1973. He stayed in the Yukon and worked as the head of security with the Yukon Emergency Measures Organization. He was a Whitehorse City Councillor in most terms from 1975 through 1991 and belonged to the Yukon Order of Pioneers and the Masonic Lodge.1)