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Daniel Van Bibber (1913 - 2002)
Dan Van Bibber was born to parents Eliza and Ira Van Bibber. He was an accomplished man in the bush, and no one worried about him when he went out alone. He was a guide for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police a number of times. Dan was the first of the Van Bibber boys to enlist for service in the Second World War. Archie and Alex went east for basic training in the summer. Most of the boys joined the service when the war was almost over. Dan was the only one to see active service and he went right into Germany. They made him a sniper because he had been shooting guns all his life. In 1945, Dan had a six-week furlough and snowshoed about two hundred miles from Dawson to the Nation and Charlie creeks area where brothers Pat and JJ were trapping. He did about forty to fifty miles a day, pulling some food and his eiderdown in his little Ice King toboggan. JJ thought he was toughest man in the Yukon.1)
Having volunteered for services in the Pacific, Dan left Whitehorse in early September 1945 to report for duty in Vancouver.2) He returned to the Yukon after the war.