George Allen Jeckell was an educator, civil servant and political figure in the Yukon

Yukon

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, Canada. He served as Yukon Comptroller/Controller from 1932 to 1946 and was accordingly the highest ranked government official in the territory.

He was born in Exeter, Ontario

Exeter, Ontario

Exeter is a Canadian community in the municipality of South Huron, in the southern portion of Huron County, Ontario, located approximately 50 kilometres north of London. The community proclaims itself the "Home of the White Squirrel", owing to the presence of the unusually-coloured mammals...

, the son of William Jeckell and Essy Case, and was educated in Exeter, Goderich

Goderich, Ontario

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 and at normal school

Normal school

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s in the Northwest Territories

Northwest Territories

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 and Yukon. In 1933, he married his second wife, Anna Theresa Boyle. Jeckell was a teacher in Dawson and become a revenue inspector for the Department of National Revenue

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 in 1928. He was a prominent freemason.