Thursday, January 8, 2009

Whitehorse Dinner with Brian & Nancy Pope

Paul spent a couple hours doing grunt work gathering fuel wood and burning brush while Faye was busy getting our stuff organized to pack for the next part of our journey.
Our friends from Tagish Lake, who Paul met when he was in Whitehorse to a CWF meeting back in the mid eighties, dropped in for a visit and treated us to dinner in Whitehorse. Brian was a former director of CWF with Paul at the time and they were meeting in Halifax and came over to Souris for a visit. Brian Brown took them out on his lobster boat out of Fortune. Brian Pope says the lobster fishing and eating on board Brian's boat was an experience he always fondly remembers and relishes to this day.
Brian is a retired sheriff for the Yukon and both he and Nancy are currently para medics for an ambulance service in Tagish.
Nancy's father, Willie May, was one of the RCMP Officers directly involved in the hunt for Albert Johnson, the Mad Trapper of Rat River. Lots of stories in the Yukon!

Later....

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