Yukon who is who

John W. Needham

Jack Needham was promoted to purser on the steamer Whitehorse in August 1944. He succeeded purser G.D. Edwards who was transferred to the steamer Keno.¹⁾ Jack and his wife purchased the Kee Bird Store in Whitehorse and operated it until the late 1960s when they retired to Kelowna. Muriel and Jack were life members of the Yukon Pioneers Association and the Yukon Order of Pioneers in Kelowna.²⁾