'Force of nature': Peter Jenkins, former Dawson City mayor and deputy premier of Yukon, has died
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Yukon has lost one of its most colourful and longest serving political leaders.
Peter Jenkins, the former two-time mayor of Dawson City and MLA for Klondike who served as deputy premier of the Yukon for three years, died last weekend. He was 77 years old.
Also a well-known owner of Dawson City's Eldorado Hotel, Jenkins was first elected mayor of Dawson City in 1980.
During his time as mayor, he earned the nickname "Pirate Pete" for his scheme to buy a residential satellite subscription under the name of dead local pioneers and then share the television signals with Dawson City residents for free.
He served as mayor until he was defeated in 1994.
Dawson City's current mayor, Wayne Potoroka, who had just moved to the city around that time, remembers watching Jenkins' concession speech on TV that night.
"He might have been the owner of the Eldorado Hotel to a lot of people but for me, from the moment I arrived here, he was just this larger than life presence in the community and the political scene here and remained that way for lots of years," Potoroka said.
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