Marcello Pelly Terri at the The Pelly River
The Northern Tutchone speaking people who live at Pelly Crossing
traditionally led a nomadic life in the lower Pelly River area.
When Robert Campbell established a trading post at fort Selkirk,
the site was already a meeting place for trade with the coastal Tlingit
First Nations. The Hucha Hudan, the people of the flat country,
started to settle there on a seasonal basis, drawn by the facilities,
jobs at wood camps and on the paddlewheelers. A solitary post
grew to a thriving community. In the 1950’s a road was constructed
north from Whitehorse, and Pelly Crossing was established as a
ferry crossing and highway construction camp. With the completion
of the road, the paddlewheelers stopped running the rivers and
Fort Selkirk was virtually abandoned. The Selkirk First Nation first
mover to Minto and finally settled at Pelly Crossing. Their Final Claims
and Self-Government Agreements were signed at Minto in 1997.
The Selkirk First Nation Council administers the community of
Pelly Crossing

Corporal in the 2nd Division, 5th Brigade of the Calgary Highlanders.
I used to bring fresh meat home during the Depression,
coming home from school. 
We’d hunt rabbits and chickens and what not.
There was no refrigeration at that time. You could say I
was a good shot. I joined the army in 1941.
I lost a very close friend of mine, it kind of bothers me ‘till this day.
It was in an area where they were opening the dykes, and they were flooding.
There were 2 patrols that were going to go out, I was selected to go
in one, and this friend of mine was selected to go in the other one.
The one he had to go on, you had to swim.  The water was rising so
fast that coming back you may have had to swim.  So I said I could swim,
and I traded places with him.  He went on a patrol along the railway track,
and he lost his life.  He bumped into a machine-gun nest.
His name was William C. Alexander, he was a private.
I got a book on the whole battalion here, it’s a regimental book,
“Regimental Heroes”

right & bottom:
Mr. John A. Gould - WWII Veteran
pilot with the Royal Canadian Air Force
(attached to the Royal Airforce in England)

Paying tribute to his 2 brothers
Bill Gould (Winnipeg Riffles / went in on D-day)
& Allan Gould
Both brothers were liberators of the Netherlands

 

ready for a jam session at the Pitt

Mr. Abe Dyck, WWII Veteran
D-25, 3rd Division.

signal-corps - communications. 
He would give the infantry all the information they needed,
to go ahead and fight or backtrack, or go a different route.
"We were traveling by jeep, 2 or 3 people in the vehicle.
We had our army radios.  They had long-range equipment"
 (see interview Concert Program )

Liberator of the Netherlands

and his wife: Mrs. Florence Dyck , WWII Veteran
bus-driver for Pan-Am and the American Navy