The Atlin Cemetery

Dateline: October 16, 2024.

    Mark Edwardson was born in Norway in 1882 as Markus Edvartsen.

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The Whitehorse Star - Friday, June 27, 1941

    Axel Nelson and Gus Johnson have quit for the time being their mining operations on bench ground opposite where the big plant is starting on Spruce Creek. During the next few months Axel, Gus and Mark Edwardson are going to sink a shaft on Dominion Creek where they own several placer leases. The work they are about to commence there should prove a lot for the future of Atlin.

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The Whitehorse Star - Tuesday, April 12, 1942

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    Atlin can do a little boasting about real gold miners when it comes to sinking shafts to get that yellow metal known as gold. Here's one instance - Axel Nelson, Gust Johnson and a hired man over sixty years old by name Mark Edwardson (Axel and Gust are well over the half century mark). The shaft has been sunk around three hundred feet below the Jim Nevid cabin on Spruce Creek and in three weeks from the start of shaft it was down fifty four feet. The four feet being in bedrock. In that three weeks the shaft was timbered perfectly. and if you wonder what the size of the shaft was we can tell you it was 9 ft. by 6 ft. before timbering. Now Axel and Gust have driven six sets from the bottom of shaft and so far have run into two ounce sof gold per set (10 by 4 ft.). A good start with, we hope, better prospects ahead. This is the ground commonly called after the name of Bill Hood.

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The Whitehorse Star - Friday, December 14, 19521

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    ATLIN, B.C. Dec. 7 - Marcus Edwardson, 69, a resident of Atlin since 1913, died suddenly at his home this morning. He had suffered recently from a chest condition but appeared considerably better in the past few days. William B. Conroy, who had been staying with him, said Edwardson arose apparently quite well, went outside and returned, gasping for breath, He laid down and when Mr. Conroy called him for breakfast there was no response.

    Mr. Edwardson was born May 8, 1882 in Norway, and came to Canada in 1910. Three years later, he arrived in Atlin and had worked at various gold mining operations and at John Olsen's sawmill since then. He was in partnership with Jens Olson in a trapline and was a member of the Loyal Order of Moose in Atlin.

    He is survive by a brother at Glidden, Sask., a brother near Ketchikan, Alaska and brothers and sisters in the Eastern United States and Norway.

    Funeral services will be held Sunday from St. Martin's Anglican church.