Louis Thomas “Slim” Rader (d. 1967)
Louis Thomas “Slim” Rader was an employee of the Hudson’s Bay Company in NWT. He may have been in Perry’s 1909 North Pole Expedition to the Arctic coast.1) He trapped in the Mackenzie and Liard river basins in the 1920s and ‘30s and worked his way to the Yukon via the Nahanni River in the early 1940s. He spent a winter in the Nahanni Valley without supplies and living by his rifle.2) The old Taylor and Drury post at Pelly Banks closed in 1949 and a new Taylor and Drury post opened at Pelly Lakes in 1950, operated by Slim (Louis) Rader. This post closed in 1952 and the Indigenous people who used the post split into two groups, one going to Ross River and the other to Upper Liard.3) In the early 1960s, Rader was caretaker of the Hudson Bay Quill Creek Mine after it closed. He retired to Haney, British Columbia. He was well liked and respected.4)