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Copley Amory Jr. was born in 1890, the eldest son of Copely Amory Sr. and Mary Russell Amory. He attended St. George's School in Middletown, Rhode Island and he received his B.A. degree from Harvard in 1912. He fought in Europe during World War I and may have been in the U.S. diplomatic service in the 1920s. He published a book entitled "Persian Days" (Methuen: 1928). He was also a contributor to Atlantic Monthly magazine. He worked for the American-Canadian Survey in Alaska and the Yukon in the summer of 1912 collecting specimens for the Smithsonian Institute.

Reverend Donald C. Amos, known as the "Parka Padre" of the Alcan, served as minister to the construction workers and soldiers building the Alaska Highway, in 1943. He travelled in his "Chaplain" truck in northern British Columbia and the Yukon. Rev. Amos filmed and photographed his travels. He also came upon the remains of an 1898-1899 campsite at the junction of the Coal and Liard Rivers, on the overland route to the Klondike. He surmised there was a lost party in this area, some of whom were rescued by Dr. Chas. Camsell and his brother. Rev. Amos was living in Willowdale, Ontario in 1992.

The Anchorage Museum of History and Art at the Rasmuson Center is a division of the Cultural and Recreational Services Department of the Municipality of Anchorage. A world-class museum located in the heart of Alaska's largest city, the Anchorage Museum of History and Art began as a public-private partnership to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the purchase of Alaska from Russia. The Museum opened its doors in 1968 with an exhibition of sixty borrowed Alaskan paintings, and a collection of 2,500 historic and ethnographic objects loaned from the local historical society. In 1986 the museum underwent a major 140,000 square-foot expansion. As the facility grew, so did the Museum's collections. The permanent collection now numbers 17,500 objects plus an education collection of roughly 2,000 artifacts, and more than 350,000 historical photographs. Operating beyond the walls of its building, the Museum is also responsible for the Municipality's 276 works of public art. Function: The Anchorage Museum of History and Art, at the Rasmuson Center in Anchorage, Alaska, is a cultural center for the community and state.

Egan Anderson was born July 20, 1872 to Norwegian parents in a dugout in Artichoke Township, Big Stone County, Minnesota. He graduated from the University of Minnesota Farm School in 1897. In 1898 he and eleven others sailed to Copper River, Alaska and headed over the Valdez glaciers to the Klondike Gold Fields. Once there, Anderson worked for C.F. Smith on 78 below, Bonanza Creek. Anderson returned to Minnesota to work the family farm. He had 9 children, including a son named Willard. Egan retired to Seattle in 1937 and died February 7, 1952.

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Willie Anderson grew up in Victoria and came to Yukon in 1937. As a CBC radio announcer he became known as Wee Willie. When he first arrived in Dawson City he worked chopping wood and in the mines. When Dawson City started its own community radio station in 1940, Anderson became an announcer. He left the station to serve in the Army during the Second World War. He returned to Dawson after the war and stayed until 1958 when CBC took over the station and offered him a full time position in Whitehorse. He then launched his famous Western Round Up show. Willie Anderson died in 1985.

Jack Andison was a long time resident of Mayo, Yukon. He was born in 1906 and came to the Yukon in 1929. He married Agnes Andison in 1930 and they had 3 children. Jack Andison worked for Treadwell Yukon Mines, was superintendent for United Keno Hill Mines and was superintendent for Yukon Government Highway division. In the 1970s, Jack and Agnes moved from Mayo to Whitehorse.

Kenneth Andrews was born in Port Marien, Nova Scotia. In 1942 Andrews enlisted in the R.C.A.F. For a short time he flew as a pilot and then was recruited to Airways Traffic Control. After a stint at Camp Borden, Ontario he requested a posting in northern Canada, arriving in Whitehorse during the spring of 1944. Andrews worked in the control tower at the Whitehorse airport until the spring of 1945 when he was posted to Edmonton. He remained there until he was discharged.