Yukon who is who

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Dave Stockdale

Dave Stockdale arrived in the Yukon as a teacher in the early 1970s. He was elected to the Whitehorse City Council in 1983 and served for eleven consecutive terms (32 years) in office.¹⁾ Stockdale was presented with the Association of Yukon Communities’ Hanseatic Award in 2016. The award provides an opportunity for Yukon municipal politicians to recognize the work of their peers.²⁾

In 1970, Stockdale coached a young table tennis team for the Arctic Winter Games. In 1972, he was the president of the Yukon Table Tennis Association, obtained national affiliation, and became a director of the Canadian Table Tennis Association. In 1974, he organized and was the chair for the Canadian National Championships held in Whitehorse. He coached many tournaments.³⁾

Stockdale was also a soccer coach in 1970 and later became a referee. He served for many years on the soccer association executive as president and in other positions. He organized tournaments, soccer schools, coaching clinics and referee clinics. He was awarded the Health and Human Resources award for youth services and 1982 Yukon Coach of the Year.⁴⁾

In 1987, Dave Stockdale was inducted into the Sport Yukon Hall of Fame for his contributions to the community in table tennis and soccer.⁵⁾ In 2007, he received the Commissioner’s Award for Public Service for his passion and dedicated work in numerous Arctic Winter games, the 2007 Canada Winter Games, and the Yukon-wide Polar Games - a high-light for students in grades 5 and 6.⁶⁾ In January 2024, Dave Stockdale was named to the Order or Yukon for his promotion of Yukon sport over a period of five decades, and his role in establishing the Sports Federation, now Sport Yukon, and the Northern Games, now the Arctic Winter Games.⁷⁾