Scroton Rum-Diddler

Scroton Rum-Diddler was a laborer on the Alaska Highway.

History
He spent most of his youth hopping freight trains to different shanty towns and drinking rum he distilled in baked bean cans. Eventually he got a job as a laborer building the Alaska Highway. He wasn't supplied with a tent, so slept in the mud with his bindle filed with cans of baked beans for a pillow. With the money from his work on the Alaska Highway, Scroton purchased the SS Klondike in late 1942 and ran freight between Whitehorse and Dawson City until 1950, when he was put out fo business by the highway he had helped construct. He returned to the simple life of squatting. In 1966 he was evicted from his riverside shanty when Parks Canada decided to move the restored SS Klondike to it's current location and create the SS Klondike historic site.

Aesthetic
Scroton is usually seen in an ensemble of various heavy, drab, patched wool articles. He smokes dried beans out of a corn cob pipe, and often has a shovel over his shoulder.