Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The past month has been a difficult one for my family with the passing of a couple of patriarchs in our family. First of all was my wife's uncle, Albert Lafferty. The Member for Good Hope mentioned some very kind words yesterday. The other was my uncle, Peter Erasmus, who also passed away late December at the age of 89. Peter was a very independent person. He was still working in his late 70s actually until he had a stroke which severely restricted his movement afterwards.
Peter was born in Wrigley to a family of 12 and grew up in Fort Rae. He did a lot of things in his life, commercial fishing, hunting, trapping, drilling. He looked after mines in his later years as a caretaker, but I know my Dad often tells me of the time when he and his brother Peter went to Norman Wells during the second world war and the Canol pipeline was being built to Whitehorse. Peter was delivering mail for the army there and he was going down the road with his dog team and apparently this army truck went by and they did not see him, ran right over him and he was very, very severely injured, but he survived and did a lot of things afterwards. One of the things that we always remembered about him was that he would never get mad at people and he always had kind words about everybody. He seemed to always to try to find the good things in any situation. He is remembered and loved and missed by his family. Thank you.