Oliver Frank Hutton (1922 – 2001)
Oliver Hutton was born near Ellscott in northern Alberta. He had eight years of formal education at the Cache Creek schoolhouse, then moved to Edmonton before he was sixteen when he received his first chauffeur's license. This led to a fifty-year career as a truck driver.1)
Hutton arrived in the Yukon from Alberta in 1953 with his wife, Irene and daughter Joyce. He started cutting and hauling wood to Mayo and the United Keno Hill mines at Elsa. The couple started a taxi business which grew into a gas and service station and then a garage. In 1960, the Huttons started a bus service between Stewart Crossing and Mayo, picking up freight, mail and passengers dropped there by Canadian Coachways. Throughout the 1960s, Hutton’s trucks delivered everything from mail and groceries to cement and gravel to Dawson. They also expedited groceries, mail and fuel to bush and mining camps. In the 1980s, Hutton was hauling drums of fuel for fly-in exploration, lumber to the Elsa mine, fuel for the White Pass bulk plant in Mayo, equipment for contractors, and White Pass petroleum. Hutton retired in 1974 at the age of 72.2)
Oliver Hutton was a booster for Mayo and the Yukon. He served on many boards and committees and was a Mason. In 1987, Hutton received an award for outstanding contributions to the community of Mayo. He was a kind and gentle person who was always willing to share what he had with others. Oliver Hutton was inducted into the Yukon Transportation Hall of Fame in 1998 as Transportation Person of the Year.3)