Tom and Mary Micky
Tom Mickey was originally from Rimby, Alberta.1) He and Mary Sidney Young were married in 1957 and lived in Dawson Creek, British Columbia and then Mile 408 on the Alaska Highway where they opened and ran a Texaco Truck Stop with a 24-hour restaurant and motel. They moved to Edmonton where Tom drove a weekly freight truck between Alberta and Yukon for Alaska Highway Express and then they moved to Whitehorse in 1966 where Tom managed Gordie’s Trucking, later Yukon Freight Lines Ltd.2)
Tom started Arctic Towing in 1973 and adding trucking to his business in 1974. In 1975, he sold the towing business and expanded his Frontier Freight Lines to include Ross River, Faro, the Alaska Highway, and Dawson. Supplying the miners around Dawson became his mainstay.3) Tom Mickey was a founding member of the Yukon Transportation Association, representing the trucking, rail and air industries, to lobby the government for better safety regulations. He was inducted into the Transportation Hall of Fame on 3 June 2014.4)
Mary Mickey was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star and became an active volunteer with the Canadian Cancer Society. In 2005, she received the Commissioner’s Award for Public Service.5)