Francis Edmund (Bud) Harbottle, 1915-1990, was born and raised in Whitehorse, Yukon. His parents were Francis Edmund and Lillian (Biggar) Harbottle, and he had four sisters, Virginia, Gladys, Ardrie and Doris. As a teenager Bud worked at a variety of jobs - as a horse wrangler at Bear Creek, a mess boy on the sternwheelers, a bus driver for Whitehorse tourists, and a Cat driver with a territorial road crew. He left school at age 18 and headed to Dawson City where he was hired as a cat skinner for Yukon Consolidated Gold Corp. (YCGC) and then hauled freight to mining camps for Sam McCormick's transportation company. In 1934, Bud was selected as a potential aircraft pilot by Yukon Airways. He worked for the company as ground crew until 1935, when a Buhl aircraft crashed and forced the Yukon Airways Company to fold. In 1942 and 1943, he helped to construct the Whitehorse Airport. From 1944 to 1945 he was with the armed services. Bud returned to Whitehorse in 1946, and worked as a commercial bus driver for the British Yukon Navigation Company (BYNCo.). He then went into the commercial flying business himself - establishing Yukon Airways in partnership with Norman Hartnell. He worked as ground crew while Hartnell piloted the planes. Bud Harbottle obtained his private pilot's licence in the spring of 1947. In 1949 Bud's company, Yukon Airways, joined forces with the Whitehorse Flying School under the new name of Whitehorse Flying Services. By 1950 the company was responsible for most of the flying in the Yukon. Whitehorse Flying Services provided the support aircraft for the Topographic Survey when they mapped the northern Yukon. In 1953 and 1954 the company was busy with mineral staking flights and transporting big game hunters to their camps and back. In December 1954 Whitehorse Flying Services was sold to Pacific Western Airlines (PWA) which was based in Vancouver. He and his partner Gordon Cameron stayed on until PWA was established with its own people. Bud continued to work in the air industry in the Yukon, and Winnipeg, Prince Rupert, Fort St. James and Yellowknife. He was manager of Great Northern Airways with runs to Yukon communities and Inuvik, NWT. Bud was manager of PWA from 1965 to 1968. In 1971 he became the company pilot for General Enterprises Construction Company in Whitehorse. He retired in 1983 after 37.5 years of flying. Bud died in 1990. He married Jeanne Connolly in 1961.