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Former Yukon commissioner Jack Cable remembered as 'man of so many talents' Jack Cable, the former MLA and Yukon commissioner who died last week, is being remembered as "your classic Renaissance man." Social Sharing Cable, who died last week at age 86, was a former MLA and Yukon commissioner from 2000 to 2005 CBC News · Posted: Jul 26, 2021 4:42 PM CT | Last Updated: July 27 Former Yukon commissioner Jack Cable with his wife Fay last year, when he was awarded the Order of Yukon. Cable died last week at age 86.(Office of the Commissioner of Yukon)
Jack Cable, a former commissioner, MLA and well-known lawyer, passed away Wednesday. His daughter, Sue Edelman, spoke eloquently about him Thursday afternoon during an interview with the Star. She didn’t hesitate for an instant when asked to provide one word that described her father. “Curious,” she said. “He was always curious, always interested in things.” Cable, she added, liked to experiment as well. At one point, he was trying to grow wheat in the front yard of their Riverdale home. That experiment was a failure, she recalled wryly, but it made the family home an instant attrac...