LEPAGE, AIME RENOLD
Aimé Renold Lepage arrived in the Yukon in the spring of 1926. Not long after his arrival, he worked aboard a steam boat “Casca’ during two seasons of navigation. In 1928, he bought Tom Murray’s sawmill situated near the Rink Rapids on the Yukon River in the Carmacks region. Thus he became a wood supplier for the steamships on the White Pass, and he did this until the last of these were converted to fuel oil. In 1929 he named a creek in the Carmacks region in honor of his friend, Fred Gader.
During his life, this French Canadian held various jobs over and above that of wood salesman, notably he was a driver for a delivery company which delivered the mail on the way to Dawson City. He also participated in the construction of the bridge at Carmacks as well as the one at the airport in Whitehorse and at Aishihik.. Before his retirement, he worked to pump out Porter Creek.
Aimé Renold Lepage died in Whitehorse towards the end of the 1970’s at the age of 68. He left two daughters to mourn, Phyllis Simpson and Amy Kinzer, six grand-children all living in Whitehorse and his wife, Pauline who was still living in Whitehorse in 1997.
From 1963 to 1978, Lepage lived at the corner of Wood Street and 3rd Avenue in the Donnenworth house (now a historical building). The adjacent park to this house carries the name Lepage.
Ref. Empreinte, vol.11, page 117
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