George Sidney (1908 – 1984)
George Sidney was as a Yanyèdí man from Teslin.1) Before the army came there were only three vehicles in Carcross: owned by Ida Calmegane’s father (George Sidney), Johnny Johns, and George Simmons. Ida’s Uncle Johnny came around to George Sidney before he went out to guide the army and asked him the best way to go around in the area. Her dad hunted and trapped in the Wolf Lake area as well, between Teslin and Watson Lake.2)
Ida remembered travelling to Whitehorse from Carcross in her father's Motel T and the trip taking two days. George Sidney worked on the White Pass & Yukon Route railway for thirty-five years. He used the car on wagon roads and the road to Whitehorse was a winter road. The family would go on picnics to Emerald Lake or Rainbow Lake and they would have to get out and push the Motel T up the hill.3) During the construction of the Alaska Highway a number of soldiers came to the house in Carcross to listen to George Sidney tell stories.4)