Dennis Lars Schneider is a real estate agent and political figure in the Yukon

Yukon

Yukon is the westernmost and smallest of Canada's three federal territories. It was named after the Yukon River. The word Yukon means "Great River" in Gwich’in....

, Canada. He represented Whitehorse West

Whitehorse West

Whitehorse West is an electoral district which returns a member to the Legislative Assembly of the Yukon Territory in Canada...

 in the Yukon Legislative Assembly

Yukon Legislative Assembly

-History:From 1900 to 1978, the elected legislative body in the Yukon was the Yukon Territorial Council, a ten-member body which did not act as the primary government, but was a non-partisan advisory body to the Commissioner of the Yukon...

 from 2000 to 2002 as a Liberal

Liberal Party of Canada

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He was born in Flin Flon, Manitoba, the son of Frank Schneider and Elsie Larson, and was educated in Denare Beach and Flin Flon. After completing High School, Schneider worked for the Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting Company. In 1961, he joined the Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Royal Canadian Mounted Police

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 and served in Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan

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 until 1996. From 1997 to 1999, Schneider worked as a real estate agent and also drove a school bus. He served speaker for the Yukon assembly from 2000 to 2002. He was defeated when he ran for reelection in 2002. Schneider lives in Whitehorse

Whitehorse, Yukon

Whitehorse is Yukon's capital and largest city . It was incorporated in 1950 and is located at kilometre 1476 on the Alaska Highway in southern Yukon. Whitehorse's downtown and Riverdale areas occupy both shores of the Yukon River, which originates in British Columbia and meets the Bering Sea in...

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