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 attraction.
At that time, she said, most of Whitehorse’s tourism was based on tour buses. Many of the tourists came from the Canadian and U.S. prairies, Edelman said.