Such is Yukon's hockey history.

William Watson came to the Yukon during the Gold Rush.

No gold though, not for Watson. Instead, he stayed to work for the White Pass Yukon Route Railway.

Meanwhile, his future wife, Edith Thompson, came to Carcross in 1898 as a missionary teacher.

The two married and raised two sons – Fraser and Tom.

Fraser was born in 1910.

One of Fraser's daughters, now Sally Lawler of Winnipeg, Man., submitted a photo of her father, a player with the 1924-25 Whitehorse junior hockey team taken in

Skagway, to the Star in keeping with the upcoming Hockey Day in Canada celebrations to take place in Whitehorse on Feb. 12.

Lawler explained in an e-mail that her father moved the family – five children – to Winnipeg in 1950 after taking a transfer with the federal government.

Her family never forgot the Yukon, however.

"My father and mother loved the Yukon, and their hearts and spirits remained there even after leaving,” Lawler said by e-mail. "After they passed away (Dad in 1968, Mum in 2004), we joined their ashes together and returned them to the Yukon in 2006.”