Highlights of History from The Whitehorse Star

Explorer's Guides to Yukon Communities

[There are no copies online between May 31, 1929 and May 16, 1930]

1930

May

• May 16, 1930: Yukon has reached the stage when something out of the ordinary must be done. Yukon's outstanding need is sympathetic, effective representation at Ottawa. And this means a supporter of the Government who is a wide-awake, up-and-coming bona fide resident of Yukon. Read the entire editorial by J. D. Skinner here.
• May 16, 1930: Much of Pages 3, 4 and 5 are about politics, starting with J. D. Skinner's statement that he will be running for election as the Yukon's federal representative.
• May 16, 1930: On May 15, 1929, the junior branch of the Boy Scouts, known as the Wolf Cubs, was organized in Whitehorse. The Cubmaster, W. Mundy, is pleased with the Pack's achievements during the first year, and is hoping for greater success in the year just commencing. There are sixteen Cubs on the roll, seven of whom have won their Second Stars, and about forty badges were worked for and passed by the boys.

• May 23, 1930: Whitehorse has taken justifiable pride in the cleanly appearance of the town. In this respect each year witnesses a decided improvement over the one immediately preceding.
• May 23, 1930: The Department of the Interior has been giving every possible assistance to aviation in the north. The large landing field already available at Whitehorse will have to be made larger because the time is not far distant when it will be the base for a flock of planes.
• May 23, 1930: Capt. C. E. Miller, an oldtimer in the Territory, passed away very suddenly Saturday afternoon in Dawson while talking to friends. Capt. Miller owned the Angeles Hotel, and was interested in the Tantalus coal mine near Carmacks. He was 74 years of age.

• May 30, 1930: Preceded over the flats by the Steamer Keno, the steamer Casca sailed on Saturday evening [May 24th] on the first trip of the season for Dawson.
• May 30, 1930: A very successful holiday dance was held last Friday evening in the N. S. A. A. Hall under the auspices of the Canadian Legion of the British Empire Service League.
• May 30, 1930: Arthur Johnson arrived Friday from New Westminster to take charge of The Whitehorse Star during the summer months. If Yukon should decide to send the present editor to advocate its interests at Ottawa, Mr. Johnson will probably make his home here for some time.

June

• June 13: The Whitehorse Inn is having constructed a building on the vacant lot between the hotel and the cafe. When completed this building will be used as the beer parlor thus releasing a number of rooms in the hotel proper for the accommodation of guests.
• June 13: The Taylor & Drury Co's. steamer "Yukon Rose" has returned from a trip to Teslin Lake where it delivered supplies to the Company's Posts in that district. Mr. Drury, who made the trip on the "Rose," reports that there was considerable float ice when they arrived at the lake on June 4.
• June 13: Four cars of concentrates from the Treadwell-Yukon silver lead property at Mayo, was taken south by the White Pass railway in transit to the smelter at Kellogg Idaho.

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1932

October

• October 28, 1932: A number of Indians are in town this week with samples of Galena ore, which was found as float in a stream in the Boswell district. The natives claim to have found the ore in place on the mountain and a number of claims were staked. The ore carries high precentages of lead.
• October 28, 1932: At the General Hospital at 6 p.m. Sunday, there passed away Robert Scott Wilson, well known and popular Steward of the B.Y.N. Co. Steamer Keno. Born in Edinburg, Scotland, in 1869, Bob Wilson entered the service of the B.Y.N. Co. in 1918 and has been in their employ ever since.
• October 28, 1932: Several noted Yukoners are among those who have come "outside" for a holiday. They are Joe Walsh, Mayo, one of the best woodsmen inthe North, and Mrs. Walsh; John Mellish, who has spent 35 years there; Bob Henderson, discoverer of the Klondike, and Capt. Johnnie Irving, pioneer coast navigator, who for many years operated sternwheelers on the Yukon River.

1933

July

• July 14, 1933: J. Rolston, barrister of Vancouver, left on Thursday's train for Atlin, where he will defend Louis Schultz interests in the gold claim case to be tried there.
• July 14, 1933: Ww have an inventor in our town. Bobby Richards is working on the perfection of a water bicycle with remarkable powers of traversing o'er the water through the basic principle of air in the tires. It was given its first trial this week, but Bobby and the bicycle disappeared into the waters of the Yukon. It is rumored that his next invention will be a submarine bicycle.
• July 14, 1933: R. Reddick, accompanied by Jimmy Baxter, left on Thursday to work on his claim on Reddick Mountain, about 20 miles from Whitehorse.

• July 21, 1933: Mr. and Mrs. John Matson of Dawson of Dawson returned to the North on their honeymoon trip, leaving here on Wednesday on the steamer Casca. Mrs. Matson nee Miss Kate Rockwell was known in the early days of the Yukon as "Klondyke Kate." The happy couple were married last week in Vancouver by the Rev. George Pringle, "Sky Pilot of the Yukon," culminating a romance which started 33 years ago when "Klondyke Kate" was a dance girl in the famous Monte Carlo Dance Hall and John Matson a hard-working prospector.
• July 21, 1933: For the last three years, thousands of men and women have turned prospectors to make a living, if not a fortune, through placer mining. Jobless men, representing all classes from grizzled professionals to college amateurs, are washing gravel from mountain streams for pay dirt. They average not less than $2 a day and there is always the possibility of striking it rich.
• July 21, 1933: The Public Administrator published a Notice of Claim for the estate of John M. Pooley, a pioneer of the Windy Arm mining district.

• July 28, 1933: During the night of July 21-22, Wiley Post flew across the Yukon during his 1,450-mile flight from Fairbanks to Edmonton. At midnight on the 22nd, he arrive din New York to become the first man tom fly around the world alone, in 7 days, 18 hours and 50 minutes.
• July 28, 1933: What is true of the gold rush and the oil boom is true of communities. Let the outside world know that in Whitehorse it will find good wages, prosperity, unusual business opportunities and industrial advantages and it will buy its own ticket. There is no more propitious time than the present for Whitehorse to discover itself and then to tell the world about what it discovers.
• July 28, 1933: The business section of the town is looking quite spick and span after a recent onslaught on the weeds around the side walks by several public-spirited merchants and citizens here.

August

• August 4, 1933: On Monday, August 7th the train will leave Whitehorse at 3 a.m. instead of 8:45, and the office will be open for acceptance of freight between 4 and 5 p.m. Sunday, August 6th. This train makes connection with the S. S. Aleutian, which takes the place of the S. S. Northwestern, which ran aground in a heavy fog recently.
• August 4, 1933: Rev. and Mrs. H. B. Metcalf spent a very enjoyable two-day vacation at Ice Lake this week. Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Porter and family are spending a pleasant holiday at their summer home at Ice Lake.
• August 4, 1933: There is quite a lot of tennis playing these days, both courts being filled afternoon and evening. This is the best season of the year to enjoy this outdoor sport.

• August 11, 1933: Thomas J, Keating, an old-timer of the '98 trail to the Yukon, has for some time been prospecting for gold on Mount Hinton, about ten miles from Keno. On July 23rd he was badly mauled by a grizzly and barely survived. Read the lengthy story here.
• August 11, 1933: Lloyd Ryder, Laurent Cyr and Billy Drury, accompanied by Mr. L. Belney, left Monday for Annie Lake, where they will do some prospecting on their property; and also some fishing.
• August 11, 1933: Mr. Al Drurie of Atlin was a Whitehorse visitor this week. He came over on the Eastman flying boat.

• August 18, 1933: T. C. Richards and W. L. Phelps of the Klondike Airways Ltd. have been informed that their tender for the mail contract from Whitehorse to Dawson has been accepted. This makes the second term for the company, having just completed their four-year term this spring. The fleet of trucks, "cats" and cars are being put in first-class shape ready to start travelling again this fall.
• August 18, 1933: The Takhini ferry, which filled and sunk to the bottom of the river, is now in operation again. Mr. Charles Baxter was in charge of the re-flotation work.
• August 18, 1933: Mr. and Mrs. Joe Beauchamp of Bear Creek, left on today's train for the outside, where they will reside in future. Mr. Beauchamp is an old-timer in the North and was proprietor of the road-house at Bear Creek, selling our just recently.

• August 25, 1933: Word of one of the saddest tragedies to ever happen in the Yukon was received here on Wednesday afternoon of the 23rd, when a wire bearing the news of the drowning of Tom Drury, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Drury of Whitehorse, in the treacherous waters of the Yukon River near Selkirk. Read the entire article here.
• August 25, 1933: For service on the Tanana and Yukon Rivers as a unit of the Alaska Railroad's transportation system, the stern-wheel, shallow draft steamer Nenana was launched at Nenana, Alaska on May 18th. Read the entire lengthy article here.
• August 25, 1933: Big Salmon Pat and wife arrived in town last Tuesday from Livingstone Creek. Pat is mining on Summit Creek, having located a claim there two years ago. He reports a shortage of water for sluicing purposes, but in the face of that handicap he has been quite successful.

September

• September 1, 1933: An impressive ordination service was held in Christ Church last Sunday morning when Rev. Arthur R. Parsons M.M., L.Th, missionary at Selkirk, was advanced to the Priesthood in the Church of England. Right Rev. W. A. Geddes, Bishop of Mackenzie River and Commissary for Yukon, officiated and preached the ordination sermon.
• September 1, 1933: The recent Canadian census reveals that of the population of Canada fifty-two per cent. are of British origin; twenty-eight per cent. French origin; seventeen point five per cent. all other European races, and about four-fifths of one per cent. Asiatic.
• September 1, 1933: George Chambers was in town this week from Champagne with the mail. George has just returned from another trip to Squaw Creek and reports extensive staking of quartz claims off the right limit of Diseovery claim.

• September 8, 1933: Talented vocal artist Miss Harriet Malstrom of Seattle will appear in a variety program at the N.S.A.A. Hall on Saturday evening. She is on her way outside from Dawson, where she has been spending the summer.
• September 8, 1933: Miss Gwen Sansom, who has been at Bennett during the summer months, has returned to town for the winter.
• September 8, 1933: Mrs. T. C. Richards accompanied her two sons Cecil and Bobby out to Vancouver, where they will continue their studies.

• September 15, 1933: An emergency flight to take a doctor to Crooked Creek, on the Toklat River in the Mount McKinley district, has saved a woman's life. Read the entire article here.
• September 15, 1933: While en route to Rochester, Minnesota for medical attention, Joshua D. Hunt, well known pioneer of the Yukon, passed away on the steamer Whitehorse when between the mouth of the Stewart River and Coffee Creek en route to Whitehorse.
• September 15, 1933: The Whitehorse Star desires to inform its readers that the Star will be in the Post Office Friday morning starting next week. In this way the readers in Carcross, etc., will be assured of their copy on Friday's train throughout the winter season.

• September 22, 1933: The Provincial Synod of Rupert's Land has chosen the Rev. W. A. Geddes to be Bishop of Yukon. The Diocese of Mackenzie River, as such, has been abolished and a new Diocese of the Arctic formed.
• September 22, 1933: The entire community received a shock on Monday, September 18th, when Mrs. Dan Gillis passed away in the General Hospital here. Read the entire article here.
• September 22, 1933: Stanley McMillan, pilot for the Mackenzie River Airways, brought in two loads of passengers from the Teslin district this week. Mr. McMillan left on Wednesday for Fort Simpson.

• September 29, 1933: A miniature Napoleonic Coach built by local boy Grant Macpherson was entered in this year's Fisher Body Competition and was awarded second prize in the paint department against other workmanship from all over the Dominion of Canada.
• September 29, 1933: The Library has many calls for magazines and old books for wood-cutters, trappers, prospectors and families in out-of-the-way places such as Kluane, Teslin, Annie Lake and down the Overland Trail.
• September 29, 1933: Marie Fraser, 13-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie Fraser of Champagne, died in the General Hospital Monday. She will be interred at Champagne.

October

• October 6, 1933: George Black declares the International Highway to be of no real value to the Yukon. Read the entire article here.
• October 6, 1933: W. A. Puckett, local hardware merchant, received a letter in the last mail from Clyde Wann, saying that he expected to be in Whitehorse with a plane sometime in November and will enter the commercial flying field.
• October 6, 1933: George Corkle, accompanied by Wm. Drury Jnr. and Lemar and Lawrent Cyr, were grouse hunting on the east side of the river last Sunday. The party bagged 49 grouse. Better leave some for seed, young fellow!

• October 13, 1933: An invasion of the Liard River and some of its lesser known tributaries by prospectors in airplanes is reported by T. A. Perry, the Hudson's Bay Company's post-keeper from Liard Post. Read the entire article here.
• October 13, 1933: Mr. Harold King is leaving this week to take up his position with the Klondike Airways Ltd. Royal Mail service as manager of the Yukon Crossing Roadhouse. The mail carriers will start on the overland winter trail in a few days.
• October 13, 1933: The steamer Whitehorse arrived in on Tuesday and after disembarking the passengers and freight, was put on the ways for the winter.

• October 20, 1933: What is causing the building activity in Carcross? Houses are going up and alterations and additions being made to others, and the Government has put a new sidewalk down in front of the Post Office. We may have something up our sleeve, so keep your eye on us.
• October 20, 1933: The ship yard is expected to close down on Saturday so set your clock with the noon whistle - the last time you'll hear it until Spring. There was a full house aboard the train last Saturday when the boat crews and gangs left for the coast cities for the winter.
• October 20, 1933: Wm. Mundy, formerly clerk at Wm. A. Puckett's Hardware Store, is leaving today for Champagne, where he will manage Taylor & Drury's store there.

• October 27, 1933: The Roosevelt gold buying policy was inaugurated today with the government paying $21.36 an ounce. The price compares with a price of $31.09 an ounce in London this morning. The American dollar slumped heavily, down 8 cents to $4.77 to the pound.
• October 27, 1933: As we go to press a report comes in stating the death of Mrs. E. W. Gideon of Carcross, proprietor of the Caribou Hotel at that point. According to the report Mrs. Gideon passed away peacefully in her sleep last night.
• October 27, 1933: The outgoing mail for Dawson left on Wednesday and a return mail will be here this week-end. The Klondike Airways motor baat Shamrock was delayed by slush ice in the river near Isaac Creek, but the mail will be here on schedule as usual.

November

• November 3, 1933: The novel experience of driving an old model Ford delivery truck from Dawson to Whitehorse over the "International Highway" was the exploit of four Dawson youths. Read the entire article here.
• November 3, 1933: There are today over thirty million idle in Europe and America, most of them being somehow fed, housed and clothed, but eating their hearts out at the way it is being done. The truth is that the wark of the world is being accomplished without them, because of machines. Read the entire article here.
• November 3, 1933: The steamer Tutshi arrived back at Carcross on Sunday from her last trip. They reported breaking ice most of the last 15 miles.

• November 10, 1933: Dennis "Denny" Kostis, 49, foreman at Pennington Section, was killed on Saturday, November 4th, when his track speeder was hit by the Northbound train in a rock cut between Carcross and Pennington. His helper, Fred Locke, had jumped from the car when he saw the danger. Kostis was hurled against the rocky sides of the cut, death being instantaneous.
• November 10, 1933: Paddy Page left on the last mail stage for Braeburn, where he will manage the roadhouse at that point.
• November 10, 1933: King Winter has the river in his icy grasp again for the winter, and it won't be long until it will be safe to walk on.

• November 17, 1933: November 11th saw an impressive Memorial Service at at I.O.D.E. rooms, then a very successful Armistice Day dance at the Whitehorse Inn, and finally Christ Church was filled to capacity on Sunday, November 12th, for the evening Service of Remembrance.
• November 17, 1933: L. A. Barr arrived in town on Tuesday night with his Moth plane. Mr. Barr will leave for Atlin as soon as weather permits.

• November 24, 1933: It should be of interest to Yukoners to hear that Alan Innes-Taylor, former member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police detachment here and later purser on the White Pass staff, is now en route to the South Pole regions with the Byrd Antarctic Expedition. Capt. Innes-Taylor is presumed to be one of the Byrd staff in charge of the malamutes.
• November 24, 1933: For the first time in the history of Whitehorse, the Yukon River, which had completely closed on November 7th, opened again from the Dam to Big Bend on November 17th. If the mild weather continues it may be open for a considerable period of time to come.
• November 24, 1933: Mr. Robert Taylor, who has been employed at the Dam this summer, has been transferred to Cowley Section during the absence of Spero Razis, section foreman at that point, who is accompanying his sister, Mrs. Dennis Kostis, and children, to Greece, with the body of Mr. Kostis, who died on the railway on November 4th.

December

• December 1, 1933: It is with regret we announce the impending departure from Carcross of Pilot and Mrs. N. G. Forester, and Mr. G. Taslett, of the Canadian Airways. We understand that Pilot Forester will take the plane to Edmonton, and Mrs. Forester will follow on December 13th. They have made many friends during their year's stay here.
• December 1, 1933: Charles Caddy arrived in town on the mail stage from Dawson on Monday evening. Chuck hoofed it to the Junction, continuing the journey from there by stage.
• December 1, 1933: The sudden cold weather of last week-end closed the river up again on Monday morning, and it looks as though it will stay that way for the balance of the season.

• December 8, 1933: Thomas Koloff, a resident of Whitehorse for the past eight years, passed away in the Whitehorse General Hospital on Thursday, November 30th. Read the entire article here.
• December 8, 1933: Charlie Smith of Winter Crossing, Hootalinqua, arrived in town this week. He was accompanied by his three sons, Field, George and Tom. Mr. Smith reports that to date fur is very scarce in his locality.
• December 8, 1933: The Canadian Pacific wish to announce a special round trip fare of $68.00 return from Skagway to Seattle, Vancouver and Victoria, to be in effect until February 28th, 1934. These tickets will be good for return until March 3st, 1934.

• December 15, 1933: A number of Vancouver "sourdoughs" were planning to go to Seattle for the big moose meat banquet which the Alaska Yukon Pioneers Cabin No 1 of Seattle held in the Masonic Temple there. No less than 800 or 900 pounds of the finest moose meat ever seen was headed for Seattle and the banquet table, as well as barrels of Alaska cranberries, vegetables and all the other trimmings from the north that go to make up a real northern feast.
• December 15, 1933: Atlin is reporting clear skies, North wind and 40 below; Lower LeBarge clear, North wind and 25 below; Dawson overcast, South wind and 25 below.
• December 15, 1933: The "Local and Personal" again lists many people heading outside for the holidays or the entire winter.

• December 22, 1933: Liberty is in danger. It cannot be doubted that the suffering and privations of the people are in some measure responsible for the dangerous upheavals of which we are the witness.
• December 22, 1933: George Chambers, mail carrier, left for Champagne on Wednesday. George has constructed a snowmobile for the service which he claims can attain a speed of 40 miles an hour.
• December 22, 1933: "Billy" Drury, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Drury, is acclaimed one of the best shots in the Territory. At the Canadian Legion Turkey Shoot Wednesday night Billy made a "possible," making three bulls-eyes in three shots. This is only the second time for many years that a possible has been made, the other one being made by the Rev. W. H. L. West in 1924.

• December 29, 1933: The children's Christmas Tree Concert, which was held in the N. S. A. A. Hall on Friday, December 22nd, was very successful from all viewpoints and favorable comment was heard on all sides.
• December 29, 1933: Lengthy commentary from the Christian Science Monitor has been published in the editorial area of every issue for many weeks now. There is very little local news.
• December 29, 1933: Mr. and Mrs. Patsy Henderson of Robinson were visitors in town on Monday.

1934

January

• January 5, 1934: The outstanding event of the Carcross Social Club evening was the first appearance of the Carcross Dance Orchestra, which scored an instantaneous success, These talented musicians are filling a long-felt want, and if vou have not danced to the seductive strains of this orchestra, well, vou have never danced.
• January 5, 1934: George Chambers, mail carrier, arrived in town from Champagne this week. George made the trip in five hours with his snowmobile.
• January 5, 1934: Clyde Wann arrived at Skagway on the Norah of last week and has brought a plane with him, and will enter the commercial flying field. W. R. Smith is the mechanic in charge, and, according to reports, he knows his planes.

• January 12, 1934: A fire has completely destroyed the garage of the Klondike Airways Ltd., the Dawson-Whitehorse mail carrier. The loss includes two caterpillar tractors, tools, equipment and a thousand pounds of freight which was to start for Dawson tomorrow. Read the entire article here.
• January 12, 1934: Mr. G. Wilson visited his ranch at Macrae last week-end. The journey was made by dog team, Fred Boss having charge of the dogs. Mr. Wilson reports Mr. and Mrs. Yorke Wilson and family in good health.
• January 12, 1934: Stricken with acute appendicitis, John Hayden, 21, trapper of Kluane Lake, was admitted to the General Hospital here on Monday night, having completed the seven-day journey here by dog team under the most difficult circumstances. Read the entire article here.

• January 19, 1934: Bernard H. "Casey" Moran has died at Maracaibo, Venezuela Death occurred November 22 of diabetic coma, an ailment that had been afflicting the deceased during the past half dozen years. "Casey" Moran was one of the old-time newspaper men who have made journalistic history in the North. Read the entire lengthy article here.
• January 19, 1934: Alex McKay, White Pass employee at Fraser, has been transferred to Log Cabin seetion. Mr. Leroy Churchill will leave on the first train this week for Log Cabin, where he will aso be employed on the seetion at that point.
• January 19, 1934: Livingston Wernecke, well-known mining engineer of the Yukon, arrived here last week-end. Mr. Wernecke left for Mayo in the Northern Airways plane piloted by E. Wasson, to look over properties there.

• January 26, 1934: The sad news was received of the passing away of J. E. Pickering on December 26th at his home in Oakland, California. "Jack" Pickering was born in Wales about fifty-six years ago. His father was a breeder of race horses, and Jack's subsequent knowledge of horses induced him to take up the livery business in Dawson, where, with James Greenfield, he conducted the livery, freighting and stage business known as Greenfield & Pickering.
• January 26, 1934: One hundred years ago last Saturday (Jan. 20th) there was born in London, England, to Charles Carpenter Bompas, an eminent lawyer, his fourth son to whom was given the name "William Carpenter." William studied lay for seven years, but in 1859 he was ordained a minister by the Church of England. Read the biography of Bishop Bompas here.
• January 26, 1934: Godfrey L. Sansom, who is now with the Royal Air Force in England, sends New Year's greetings to his many Yukon friends.

February

• February 2, 1934: Miss Claire Wernecke has been chosen to take a bow before the Governor-General of Canada, the Earl of Bessborough, and his wife, the Countess of Bessborough, at the opening of Parliament in Ottawa. She will be going to New York City shortly to purchase a suitable formal gown.
• February 2, 1934: William A. Ewing, superintendent of the Walker Pork Gold Corporation arrived in Whitehorse on Thursday evening with a crew of five men. They will leave for the Forty Mile District, where the company have holdings on Walker's Fork, on the American side. Work will commence immediately the. first step being the building of a gold dredge.
• February 2, 1934: Dan Snure, post keeper of the Taylor & Drury store at Carmacks, is reported very ill at that point. It is understood that Roy Churchill is leaving on the first Dawson stage to relieve the sick man.

• February 9, 1934: Northern Airways, mail contractors, have now got their tractor and sleigh on the Carcross-Atlin route.
• February 9, 1934: Philip Clancy arrived on Thursday from the Outside. Mr. Clancy will join the Macauley & Voss outfit and leave with them next week for the Iron Creek country, where they will spend several months developing some valuable property.
• February 9, 1934: Alex Robinson, mining engineer, passed through Whitehorse last week en route to the Outside. He made an extensive survey of mining properties in Mayo, taking up a number of claims and water rights for his company.

• February 16, 1934: One hundred and four "curlers" in 26 rinks will take part in the Hospital Benefit Bonspiel to be held next week.
• February 16, 1934: To show its continued interest in the work of the White Horse School, our I.O.D.E. Chapter made a donation of $25.00, Of this sum $5.00 was set aside as a prize for highest marks obtained in Canadian History at the matriculation examination, the balance to be expended for sports equipment or anything the Principal deems necessary.
• February 16, 1934: Pilot Vernon Bookwalter, pilot for Clyde Wann, passed through here last week end on his way to Dawson with one passenger, A. Stewart. Pilot Bookwalter returned to Skagway on Thursday.

• February 23, 1934: James Lauderdale, popular Chief Engineer of the Steamer Tutshi of the British Yukon Navigation Company, who has been with the company for thirty-three years, is retiring from the service this year.
• February 23, 1934: Superintendent Gordon of the W. P. & Y. R. reports that general conditions on the coast are considerably better than they were a year ago. There is renewed activity in mining circles, and the prospects are that the Yukon will benefit from this activity. Tourist reservations also show an increase over last season.
• February 23, 1934: An Ice Gang consisting of five men left for Pennington today, where they will cut ice to be used this summer on the various branches of the W. P. & Y. R. The gang will probably be employed for ten days or two weeks.

March

• March 2, 1934: Mrs. W. A. Puckett, a pioneer of the north, passed away on the morning of February 28th in Long Beach, California. Born near Louisville, Kentucky, in 1871, Mrs. Puckett came to Whitehorse with her three small children in 1900 and established a confectionery store. In 1902 she was married to Mr. W .A. Puckett and took up residence at Tahkeena, where Mr. Puckett owned and operated a roadhouse. Later Mr. Puckett purchased the Unsworth Hardware business and they moved into Whitehorse, where they have since resided.
• March 2, 1934: Thomas "Blondie" Mallott, aged 73 years, who patrolled the streets of Dawson as a member of the Northwest Mounted Police before the gold excitement and remained there several years afterwards, died recently in Tacoma, Where he had made his home for more than twenty years.
• March 2, 1934: Mr. and Mrs. Ludvig Swanson of Ben-My-Chree and their Japanese helper arrived in Carcross on yesterday's train. The party will fly to their home in Ben-My-Chree with Pilot E. Wasson of the Northern Airways.

• March 9, 1934: Residents of Kluane Lake district are endeavoring to have a school established at that point as soon as possible. There are sufficient children ready for enrolment to support it and if the Territorial Government will supply a teacher, parents are prepared to build a schoolhouse and to furnish the fuel.
• March 9, 1934: Captain Albert J. Goddard, first president of the Alaska Yukon Pioneers, filed for the office of Port Commissioner in Seattle recently. In 1898 Captain Goddard took two steamers and a sawmill over Chilcoot and White Passes and the steamer "A. J. Goddard" was the first passenger boat on the Upper Yukon River.
• March 9, 1934: The Star reprinted an article from an Ontario newspaper about Mrs. I. O. Stringer, wife of Archbishop Stringer, for many years bishop of the Anglican Church in the Yukon.

• March 16, 1934: Sandy Grant, Ed. Morrissey and T. Anderson left on Monday for the Dam where they will be employed for a time. The trio mushed overland from Dugdale.
• March 16, 1934: Elliott L. Tyrer of the Eastman Flying Boats, arrived in Carcross on Thursday's train en route to Atlin. Mr. Tyrer is taking in a 19-ton steam shovel.
• March 16, 1934: The shipyard crew of the W. P. & Y. R. are expected to arrive on the next Princess Norah, which is due at Skagway on March 27.

• March 23, 1934: Having to his credit what is perhaps the longest continuous residence in Alaska and the Yukon of any pioneer living in the Territory today, Captain William Moore has cast his anchor among other sourdough friends at the Pioneers' Home at Sitka. He has spent over 60 years in Alaska.
• March 23, 1934: R. Franklin, manager of the Yukon Gold Corporation of Dawson, arrived on Wednesday's train from the Outside en route to Dawson. Pilot E. Wasson of the Northern Airways flew Mr. Franklin and party to their destination on Thursday.
• March 23, 1934: Three Soviet flyers and an interpreter arrived in Whitehorse on Wednesday's train and left at 4:15 the same afternoon en route to Nome, where they will commence a search for the 92 Russians now adrift on the ice pack in the Behring Straits.

• March 30, 1934: A thrilling epic of battle against cold, starvation, sickness and scurvy has come to light with the news received this week of the plight of E. Ostberg, prospector of Iron Creek. Read the entire article here.
• March 30, 1934: The perfervid enthusiasm displayed by the curlers during the past season reached its zenith at the dinner held in the banquet hall of the Whitehorse Inn last Saturday night. Curlers and their wives to the number of seventy four sat down to a splendid) beef and greens dinner.
• March 30, 1934: The names and jobs of many men returning to work at the shipyards were published.

April

• April 6, 1934: Frozen to death on the Yukon River trail 40 miles below Fort Yukon was the fate that about the middle of January overtook James Broderige, a one-armed wood cutter of Beaver. In ill health, poorly clad for temperatures ranging as low as 7S below zero and with only a scanty supply of food, he became exhausted and succumbed while on his way from Beaver to Fort Yukon to receive medical attention at the hospital there.
• April 6, 1934: William Brabazon, well known pioneer of Alaska and Yukon Territory, died in Chicago onn February 16th. Brabazon was the first man to take potatoes and eggs to Dawson, and later ran and freighted and operated scows oy the Yukon River. He mined also in the Klondike and when gold was found at Nome he went down the Yukon and mined there.
• April 6, 1934: The Klondike district, once Canada's leading producer of gold, has many vears active production ahead of it, according to the Canadian Department of Mines. The bureau report shows a total of 286 million cubic yards of placer gravels, containing a total of $54,500,000 in gold.

• April 13, 1934: Mrs. J. L. Sansom died in Vancouver on April 1st. Deceased had been in ill health for the past year and it was hoped that a recent improvement in her condition would permit her to return to Whitehorse. With this in view Mr. Sansom left on March 27th for Vancouver.
• April 13, 1934: Two planes of the United Transport Service, Edmonton, arrived in Carcross on the 5th and are making their base there. They will be freighting into the Liard and are in charge of Pilots McConachie and Field. A great deal of other mining-related transportation activity is also going on at Carcross.
• April 13, 1934: Mrs. C. B. Tidd passed through town en route to Mayo, where her husband, Sergeant Tidd, has charge of the R.C.M.P.

• April 20, 1934: W. T. Sturgeon, formerly of the R. C. M. P. at Whitehorse now engaged in prospecting, walked in from Carcross this week for a brief visit. H. J. Harris also walked in from Carcross this week.
• April 20, 1934: Three hundred miles north of Fort Simpson, in the wild and little-known Nahanni country, a "little Yukon" gold rush is in progress. Scores of prospectors - spurred by the magic word "gold" - are speeding to where a rich strike has been reported.
• April 20, 1934: Pilot Menifee of the Wann Airways arrived in town on Thursday with three prospectors: S. E. Squires, F. W. Debrean and H. W. Juebb. The party is outfitting in town and will leave by small boat down the river as soon as navigation opens.

• April 27, 1934: The financial statement of the Whitehorse Public Library shows a government grant of $462.50 and membership fees of $97.00 to ne the main revenue, with the main expenses being $250 per year for the librarian's salary and $227.65 for books, magazines and newspapers.
• April 27, 1934: Clyde Wann's Skagway Airways is advertising one-way fares of $17.50 from Skagway to Whitehorse, $11.00 from Skagway to Carcross, and $145.00 from Skagway to Dawson.
• April 27, 1934: Ken Yoshida, popular manager of the Whitehorse Inn, arrived back in Whitehorse on Wednesday after spending the winter in sunny Japan. Ken says the weather wasn't so hot over there this vear.

May

• May 4, 1934: According to telegraph advices received yesterday the new Gold Tax, which takes the place of the former ten percent tax on all gold mined, will not apply to placer mining and will only be on dividends of hard rock mines. This will encourage many prospectors into the Territory, giving an added impetus to the development of the Yukon.
• May 4, 1934: The community of Atlin was deeply shocked to hear of the death of Mrs. Gordon Bratt, wife of Rev. Bratt, on April 30th. Deceased had been ill for only a short period and yesterday, when her condition became critical, Dr. d'Easum had Dr. Wride flown down from Whitehorse. An operation was performed but she succumbed.
• May 4, 1934: The Squaw Creek area in the pocket formed by the Yukon-British Columbia boundary and the Alaska Panhandle may prove to be another Klondike, in the opinion of mining men who have received additional advices from that district. Read the entire article here.

• May 11, 1934: The ice went out of the Yukon River in front of Dawson on May 2nd at 9:57 a.m. The lucky guess that won the main pool was May 2nd at 11:10 am., made by Joseph Desroche, an old-time miner of Dominion Creek, who wins $1700. The largest winnings made in the minute pools came to Mrs. Nina Boyce, business woman of Dawson, who won $1480. The recent unexpected heavy rains and warm weather was responsible for the early breakup.
• May 11, 1934: Jack Taylor died on March 24th at the age of 76, and was buried beside his wife in the Fairbanks cemetery. He ran the pack train up to the scales on Chilcoot Pass in 1898 and '99. From there he went to Dawson where he operated the Colorado and Minneapolis market with George Solomon and Pit Richards, then in 1905 opened the first fur farm in Alaska, near Fairbanks.
• May 11, 1934: Pilot L. Staples of the Inca Mining Co. left for Atlin via seaplane accompanied by Air Engineer E. Forrest, who will prepare the Eastman Flying Yachts for the summer's flying.

• May 18, 1934: W. A. Puckett is advertising gasoline "in any quantity, in your own cans or car," for 60 cents per gallon, with a special price by the barrel.
• May 18, 1934:The Robert Service Camp at the Whitehorse Rapids is now open for the season. A recent check-up disclosed the fact that the stove in the kitchen is completely worn out. As the Camp has no income to cover replacements, does anyone have a second-hand cook stove which they would care to donate?
• May 18, 1934: A meeting of the Whitehorse Tennis Club was held in the I.O.D.E. Rooms on Monday of this week, but owing to the poor attendance no new officers were elected.

• May 25, 1934: William Maher, aged 66, a resident of Whitehorse since 1899, dropped dead while at work on the Canyon Road at 10.15 Monday morning. Death was ascribed to over exertion. Read the entire obituary here.
• May 25, 1934: The steamer Keno, Capt. Ewen Morrison at the helm, was the first boat to leave Whitehorse for down river this season, leaving Monday. The steamer Whitehorse, Capt. C. Coghlan in charge, left the same evening. The ice in Lake LeBarge gave no trouble whatever, both vessels crossing in good time.
• May 25, 1934: In order to take care of running expenses of Robert Service Camp, it has now become necessary to raise some money, and it has been decided to issue membership tickets in the Association for the sum of $1.00 per year and to keep the kitchen locked up to prevent misuse and removal of equipment. Read the entire article here.

June

• June 1, 1934: Empire Day was the occasion of a very happy and successful picnic at Squaw Park held by Christ Church Sunday School and largely attended by the parents amd friends of the children. Mr. Geo. Ryder conveved the children to the Park in his truck and cars were provided by kind friends for the adults.
• June 1, 1934: Pilot Jack Herman of the Ptarmigan Air Lines, piloting a huge tri-motored all-metal Ford transport airplane, arrived in Whitehorse this week en route to Fairbanks. The company will operate hetween Cordova, Anchorage and Fairbanks and later intend to extend the route to Siberia for ten months of the year.
• June 1, 1934: A story from 1905 tells of of a dog sled arriving at the Indian River Roadhouse with the driver frozen solid. Read the story here.

• June 8, 1934: Sergeant-Major T. C. Davies, formerly officer commanding the Whitehorse detachment R.C.M.P., accompanied by Mrs. Davies, left this week for Vancouver, where they will reside in the future. Joining when a youth, Sgt.-Major Davies has been in the force for over 27 years, and has served in various posts throughout Canada.
• June 8, 1934: The Thirty-fourth Annual International Celebration held in Whitehorse on Saturday last was one of the quietest Celebrations observed, but, nevertheless, evervone seemed to be having a good time and enjoying themselves immensely.
• June 8, 1934: The longshoreman's strike which has paralyzed Pacific Coast shipping for four weeks may be settled soon. While the strike is not yet settled, a concession has been made that all Alaskan boats will be able to load cargo, etc., and resume their normal schedules.

• June 15, 1934: "Pete" McMillian, well-known Yukon pioneer and manager of the Pioneer and White Pass Hotels, died at the Whitehorse General Hospital on May 13th. Read the entire obituary here.
• June 15, 1934: J. D. Brooks, of the Brooks Airways Ltd. of Prince Albert, Sask., was a visitor in town this week. Mr. Brooks announces the opening of a branch of the Airways at Carcross, where a seven passenger plane will be stationed.
• June 15, 1934: Hannah Larsen, 14-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mike Larsen of McDames Creek, B.C., passed peacefully away at the General Hospital here on Tuesday morning after being a patient in the hospital since April 22nd. Funeral services were held yesterday and the remains interred in the Whitehorse Cemetery.

• June 22, 1934: Mr. Fred Lawson of Golden Gate came in to Carcross to fetch a launch that is to be used for the Norgold Mining Co. Fred reports good progress on Norgold and the Big Horn mining properties.
• June 22, 1934: M. J. Gillespie, provincial manager for Excelsior Life Assurance Co., accompanied by his wife, left for Atlin on Thursday. While in town Mr. Gillespie secured several large policies.
• June 22, 1934: Taylor & Drury is advertising a major sale for their 35th Anniversary.

• June 29, 1934: Mrs. F. A. Cederberg died at the Whitehorse General Hospital on Sunday, June 24. Mrs. Cederberg was one of the most lovable women of the North and for her graciousness and generosity had endeared herself to the entire populace of Whitehorse. Read the entire obituary here.
• June 29, 1934: There will be trap shooting on Saturday evening from 7 to 9 p.m., on the flats across the railroad tracks south of the Hospital. Bring your shotguns and ammunition. No club fees - free to all. All kinds of shotguns permissable.
• June 29, 1934: What nearly turned out to be a drowning tragedy was narrowly averted yesterday at the pond near town where the children bath. It appears that Joyce Richards, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eric Richards, went beyond her depth and disappeared below the water. Miss Rosie, waitress at the Regina Hotel, courageously plunged in and after an exhausting struggle in which she was pulled under several times, succeeded in bringing the drowning child ashore.

July

• July 6, 1934: The U.S. War Department has announced that ten Martin bombers will make a training and photographic flight from Washington, D.C. to Fairbanks, and return. The flight will include a stop in Whitehorse.
• July 6, 1934: Pilot Bob Reeve set a record in freighting over the last winter season, transporting 88,300 pounds of mining supplies to various points.
• July 6, 1934: Captain John Irving of Victoria, former skipper of the steamer Islander, who disposed of his interest in the old gold ship a year before the voyage in which it was wrecked, has headed North again to resume his mining operations.

• July 13, 1934: On July 5th, a fire destroyed the Yukon Consolidated Gold Corporation's machine shop at Bear Creek. The only equipment saved were the milling machines, lathes and steam hammer that were dragged out by the "cats".
• July 13, 1934: White Pass & Yukon Route has entered the commercial aviation business in the Yukon and Alaska Interior with the inauguration of airplane service between Skagway and Fairbanks.
• July 13, 1934: R. Hulland, principal of the Whitehorse Public School, was a southbound passenger on the Casca for Dawson as far as Big Salmon. From there Mr. Hulland expects to make a prospecting trip up the Big Salmon River.

• July 20, 1934: Joe Brooks, famous Chilkoot packer of the days of '98, known to hundreds of Northerners and especially to many old timers in the North, passed away on Saturday, July 14th on the old site of White Pass City, about 12 wiles from Skagway, Alaska.
• July 20, 1934: A novel and interesting wedding of much interest to Northerners was solemnized at 8 p.m. Sunday, July 15, when Miss Gladys Krater of Chehalis, Washington, became the bride of Harold E. Mulvihill, popular brakemen of the White Pass & Yukon Route. The ceremony was performed in the White Pass Ford Trimotor, 7,000 feet in the air between Chilkoot Pass and Mount Harding.
• July 20, 1934: Miss Dorothy O'Keefe, formerly of Dawson who was hostess in the Alaska Buildings at the Chicago World's Fair, has accepted a position with the Northern Commercial Company at their Fairbanks store.

• July 27, 1934: On Monday, July 23rd, one of Whitehorse's oldest and best known citizens, Dennis Brian O'Connor, died here. He was born in Keelnahulla, County Cork Ireland, and came North with the Klondike Gold Rush of 1898. Read the entire obituary here.
• July 27, 1934: That progressive young company, the Northern Airways, have taken over the Fairchild Six-Seater plane that was brought in by the Brooks Airways Ltd. recently. It is understood that Pilot Randall will stay with the plane.
• July 27, 1934: A magnificet spectacle was witnessed by residents when ten Martin bombers of the U.S. Army flew over the town in perfect formation and settled down on the roomy air field Monday evening. The planes left early next morning to continue their flight from Riverside, California to Fairbanks.

August

• August 3, 1934: Due to the expanding mining development, thirty dredges are in operation in the Nome district. Read the entire article here.
• August 3, 1934: As a token of the good will and high esteem in which Rev. and Mrs. H. B. Metcalf of Christ Church here were held, a pair of ivory candlestick holders and a sum of money were presented to them shortly before their departure for Victoria. He has been rector of this parish for six years.
• August 3, 1934: While a resident of Skagway in 1905, Robert E. Sheldon constructed Alaska's first automobile. Lizzie has been resting for some vears in a Juneau garage, but from now on will occupy a place of honor in the museum of the Alaska Agricultural College in Fairbanks.

• August 10, 1934: Thirty. boys arrived here on Wednesday on the annual tour of Alaska and the Yukon sponspred by Mr. Buchanan of Detroit. The party left on Thursday for the return trip
• August 10, 1934: Wm. M. Ghee baker on the steamer Keno, was reported as drowned on Sunday while swimming in the Stewart River at Mayo. While reports from Mayo are very meager, the drowning is attributed to cramps. The Keno is due here on Sunday, when further details will be available.
• August 10, 1934: Six carpenters of the shipyard crew here left for Atlin, where work will be rushed on the new scow now being completed. Mr. Bert Fowler, shipyard foreman, is in charge of the work.

• August 17, 1934: Public and high schools in the Yukon will re-open on August 20th. The programs of studies are being changed to follow those of British Columbia - public schools currently follow Alberta while high schools follow Ontario.
• August 17, 1934: Yukon Border Gold Ltd. have moved to the north end of Surprise Lake and are taking in a keystone drill. This looks like business!
• August 17, 1934: W. J. Langham, developer of what promises to be the next big Yukon mining camp, namely Carmacks, left for that point on Saturday last after attending to several business matters here.

• August 24, 1934: Plans for a 2200 mile highway from Seattle to Fairbanks have been announced and discussed in the U.S. Congress.
• August 24, 1934: Alex Forest of Dawson had a close call recently when he was attacked by a mother bear whose two frightened cubs had climbed a tree. Alex broke his fishing pole over the bears head, and the fight was declared a draw.
• August 24, 1934: Plans for a new battle in Congress for completion of the 2200-mile Seattle-Fairbanks Alaska-Pacific highway were announced today. Anthony J. Dimond, Alaska's delegate in Congress, said "I believe we should offer to build the 1000 miles in Canada as well as the 200 miles in Alaska, if it is necessary to link our territory with the rest of the United States."

• August 31, 1934: A. T. Taddie has been re-elected to the Yukon Council by acclamation. This popular Councillor has been re-elected by acclamation a number of times in the past.
• August 31, 1934: Pilot L. F. Barr, better know throughout the North as "The Flying Prospector", returned recently from the Outside with a new Stinson Detroiter four-seater plane. From his headquarters at Atlin he is operating under the firm name of "The North Canada Express" and is accompanied by J. W. Rice who is the mechanic.
• August 31, 1934: Anthony J. Dimond, delegate to Congress for Alaska, arrived in Whitehorse today from Juneau en route to Fairbanks, where he will visit his constituents. The congressman arrived in a Pan American Airways plane piloted by Joe Crossan, famous Alaskan flyer.

September

• September 7, 1934: Dave "Cyclone" Broadfoot reports spending a restful day hunting grouse at Carcross. When questioned as to the quantity secured Dave was very evasive but lated admitted a complete failure. Asked the correct procedure to take to locate grouse, ducks and rabbits Dave slipped into his natural element and magnanimously explained "You just call 'Here Grousie Wousie, Here Duckie Wuckie, Here, Honey Bunnie.'"
• September 7, 1934: A new column on the front page, "The Game Bag," by "Buck Shot, has 13 comments about resident's various fishing and hunting activities.
• September 7, 1934: Rev. H. B. Metcalf, former rector of Christ Church, suffered a fractured leg recently in Victoria when a motorcycle struck and knocked him down. Rev. Metcalf was admitted to St. Paul's Hospital.

• September 14, 1934: The Department of the Interior at Ottawa have given G. A. Jeckell, Comptroller of the Territory at Dawson, instructions to proceed with the construction of a landing field at Dawson, and with the work of reconditioning the fields at Whitehorse and Mayo.
• September 14, 1934: En route to England, Thos. Patton, general manager of the Grenville Power & Mining Co., which has taken over the properties formerly operated by the Guggenheims, said today that his company was now practically operating all the dredges in the Yukon. Mr. Patton will dissuss with his principals plans for the coming season's hydraulic developments.
• September 14, 1934: A recent report from the Islander wreck says twenty-eight pounds of gold consisting of $20 ard $10 coins, nugget jewelry and gold dust have been recovered from a bathroom, the treasure having lodged there when the deck under one of the upper staterooms collapsed.

• September 21, 1934: The September 19th election for Councillor of the Southern Yukon was won by C. T. Atherton with 4 votes more than W. L. Phelps.
• September 21, 1934: Dazed and worn after a 12-hour battle with a gale-swept, fuel-fed fire, the 400 residents of Nome, their famous gold rush city in smoking ashes, today were threatened with hunger and privation, with practically all food supplies destroyed.
• September 21, 1934: Grizzly Bill MpPhee, who went to Juneau in 1886 and later joined all the important stampedes in the North, passed away recently in San Francisco.

• September 28, 1934: The N. A. Timmins Corporation of Montreal have taken two options in the Carmacks Strike; one on the Soforma Group owned by Messrs. Langham, Forrest and Major, which is composed of 11 claims; and the other on the Brown Fairclough Group composed of five claims.
• September 28, 1934: The abundance of game existant in the vastness of the Yukon was again proven when Count Antonie Sierlen of Vienna and Guide Johnnie Johns arrived in town on the launch Loon Thursday night. The party journeyed by pack and saddle horse to the north slopes of the Pelly Range especially to secure fannin sheep, the main object of the hunt.
• September 28, 1934: Mr. T. A. Storey, postmaster at Carcross, says that the proposed route of the road through British Columbia to Alaska passes through tremendously difficult country hetween Telegraph Creek and the Yukon boundary, and the cost of maintenance would exceed the value of the highway.

October

• October 5, 1934: The new landing field at Dawson is nearing completion, a portion of it being ready for planes now. The field is located a mile above the Fournier Ranch, approximately fourteen miles from Dawson.
• October 5, 1934: The rougher element at Hoonah appears to have just about taken the town. Stories of violence in various forms are numerous. Three violent deaths, one case of rape and brawls without interference are reported.
• October 5, 1934: Tomorrow is scheduled as the day when the last boat of the season will leave down river, the steamer Keno having the honor. After the steamer returns she will be hauled up on the ways and that means the close of navigation for the year 1934.

• October 12, 1934: George Landers left on the mail launch Shamrock en route to Carmacks where he has been employed as cook for the Timmins Corporation.
• October 12, 1934: A Farewell Dance for Dr. and Mrs. R. J. Wride, held at the Whitehorse Inn, proved to be quite a lively affair, a goodly number of the citizens turning out to bid them farewell. Dr. and Mrs. Wride leave Sunday for Princeton, B.C., the doctor's new practice.
• October 12, 1934: Mrs. N Skistad, proprietress of the Hunker Creek Roadhouse, was a passenger for Dawson on the steamer Casca's last trip, after spending the summer holidaying Outside.

• October 19, 1934: The mail stage left on Wednesday on the first overland trip of the season, T. C. Richards accompanying it as far as Yukon Crossing to see that everything is in order for the comfort and convenience of winter travelers.
• October 19, 1934: A recent Vancouver Daily Province recorded the death of Archie F. Wood, for many years a prominent business man of Whitehorse who was known to all the old-timers here.
• October 19, 1934: William Taylor, who has been employed on Cowley section up to the present, arrived in town on Tuesday to stock up winter supplies and left today for the return trip to Cowley, where he will spend the winter.

• October 26, 1934: The Bedeaux party left Pouce Coupe Tuesday by train for Edmonton, abandoning their trip to Telegraph Creek. See Charles Bedaux & the Champagne Expedition for more information.
• October 26, 1934: Stolen from a wealthy miner on Whiskey Hill in the Dawson district in 1901, a safe originally containing $10,000 and $12,000 in gold dust, was located a few weeks ago by Pat Brady four miles from the scene of the robbery. The safe had been rifled and bore evidence that the cutting of the steel hinges was the work of a man skilled in such operations.
• October 26, 1934: Cam Smith, launch engineer of the British Yukon Navigation Co., left on the Paige car Monday for Skagway en route to Seattle. See more about the Paige car here.

November

• November 2, 1934: Archbishop Isaac O Stringer died of heart failure on October 29th, in Winnipeg. Read the entire obituary here.
• November 2, 1934: Mr. and Mrs. Howard Perchie left on today's mail stage for Braeburn, where they will take charge of the roadhouse for the Klondike Airways.
• November 2, 1934: Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Morrison and family arrived on yesterday's train after a trip Outside. Mr. Morrison is the government telegraph operator at Lower LaBarge.

• November 9, 1934: Miss Edna Nelson, a member of the teaching staff of the Skagway Public School for several years, was united in wedlock to Mr. George Rapuzzi, well-known machinist in the Skagway shop of the White Pass & Yukon Route, on Sunday evening, November 4, Father Gallant of Skagway officiating.
• November 9, 1934: The Hudson's Bay Company have re-established a post on the shores of Frances Lake in south-east Yukon. This marks the first return of that company to the Yukon in almost a hundred years.
• November 9, 1934: Chief Dispatcher W. J. Mulvihill of the White Pass made a trip here from Skagway on Sunday by plane, returning the same day. Mr. Mulvihill has the distinction of traveling on the first train and also the first plane carrying mail for the White Pass & Yukon Route from Skagway to Whitehorse on an official mail trip.

• November 16, 1934: Mr. Livingston Wernecke, manager of the Treadwell Yukon Company, says work will start at Mayo as soon as silver is stabilized at fifty-five cents per ounce, as they cannot work profitably at a lower price.
• November 16, 1934: An impressive Memorial Service was held in the I. O. D. E. Rooms on Sunday, November 11th, officers and members of the I. O. D. E. and Canadian Legion being present. The school children paraded down to the services under the direction of the school staff.
• November 16, 1934: Emil Forrest, well known mining figure of the Carmacks Strike, reports that the road is now completed from Carmacks to the scene of the development at the gold properties. Supplies are now being hauled overland and development work will begin soon.

• November 23, 1934: Pacific Alaska Airways announces the inauguration of a Juneau-Whitehorse-Fairbanks service in the spring of 1935, using a new Lockheed Electra. The company will erect a radio station at the Whitehorse airport, and two members of the Canadian Signal Corps will operate it.
• November 23, 1934: The Dawson News reports the appearance of caribou at West Dawson recently, and some of the more venturesome of the local nimrods were crossing the river through the running ice in order to bag a few of the animals.
• November 23, 1934: Archibald McLean, well-know Yukoner and World War veteran who came over the Summit in 1899, passed away at the Whitehorse General Hospital yesterday, aged 55 years. Funeral services will be held on Tuesday.

• November 30, 1934: While skipping a curling game last evening at the Dawson Curling Club, Philip M. Kelly, 61, the government mining recorder here, died suddenly, presumably from a heart attack. Deceased was a pioneer of 1895.
• November 30, 1934: More than 11,629 million feet of timber would be made available by construction of the Yukon-Pacific Highway through British Columbia, the Yukon Territory and Alaska, a report of the joint Canadian-United States commission which studied the project, showed recently.
• November 30, 1934: Fraser Watson, who has been employed by the Holbrook Dredging Company, operating in the Sixtymile country, arrived in Dawson recently to seek medical attention. One of the huge northern sleigh dogs belonging to E. Holbrook, the manager of the company, attacked him when it was startled by being stepped upon in a darkened cabin.

December

• December 7, 1934: On Thursday evening members of the Whitehorse Branch of the Canadian Legion gathered in the rotunda of the Whitehorse Inn, the event being the veteran's annual banquet. After the toast to the King, members sat down to a remarkably well-cooked and served dinner.
• December 7, 1934: We are experiencing an exceptionally early Spring???? in Whitehorse, the snow having practically all gone from the streets and hills surrounding the town. On December 4th the temperature reached 42 above, compared to 42 below the previous year. The past two days it has reached 40 above.
• December 7, 1934: Pilot Lawrence Muehleisen of the Skagway Airways appears to be running in hard luck of late. He was forced down by darkness on Saturday when only 13 miles out from here, his passengers having to hoof the 13 miles into town. And on Wednesday, when attempting to fly to Skagway, he was forced back to Carcross by dense fog.

• December 14, 1934: W. S. McGee of Great Falls, Montana, told a Seattle reporter about being the "Sam McGee" that Robert W. Service cremated in his famous poem. Read the short article here.
• December 14, 1934: Bids for the construction of the Juneau Airport have been filed. The field is about ten miles northwest of the city and will consist of 75 acres. Two cross runways are provided.
• December 14, 1934: Pilot Everett Wasson of the Northern Airways hit a 90 mile gale when coming to Whitehorse from Mayo on Saturday last and was forced to return to Mayo with two passengers until more favorable weather conditions prevail.

• December 21, 1934: Wilbur D. Greenough, manager of the Pueblo Mines here for many years and well known locally, dropped dead in Spokane yesterday morning. The cause was ascribed to a heart attack.
• December 21, 1934: Johnny Scott, Whitehorse's local mining magnate, arrived in town this week from Carmacks. Johnny mushed in from Carmacks in four days, which is cutting the time element pretty fine.
• December 21, 1934: Bayne Beauchamp of Honolulu, well known tour organizer who has brought several parties of school boys here from Honolulu, arrived on Wednesday's train. Mr. Beauchamp will take pictures of snow scenes and of animal life.

• December 28, 1934: "This is the first time the Yukon has had a break and she is pulling herself up by her own boot straps," said Mrs. Robert Lowe, widow of Robert Lowe, first Speaker of the Yukon Council and one of the outstanding pioneers of the North, in telling of the new developments in the Yukon Territory in an interview at the Empress Hotel in Victoria to The Times recently.
• December 28, 1934: The hills were full of tree-hunters over the past week-end. Most of the axemen wondered how it should be that out of so many trees so few should approach perfection.
• December 28, 1934: Old Man Winter played havoc with certain of Skagway's holiday activities. Due to the low temperatures and the relentless wind it was necessary to postpone the Women's Club Pageant and to cancel the basketball excursion to Whitehorse. The Christmas Eve caroling planned by the Presbyterian Church had to be called off also.

1935

January

• January 4, 1935: The body of 17-year-old Allison Copland, who was born in Whitehorse while his parents lived at Teslin Lake, has been recovered but his companion is still missing following a boating accident at Mayne Island, B.C.
• January 4, 1935: Daniel Driscoll, pioneer resident of Dawson and Fairbanks, mushed across the Final Trail when death overtook him at the hospital in McMinnville, Oregon. The Dawson gold rush in 1900 drew him north where he was a passenger on the first regular train of the White Pass & Yukon Route to run into Whitehorse, when boats were still used to get down Lake Bennett where the rail line was not yet completed.
• January 4, 1935: The S.S. Victoria of the Alaska Steam ship, which left Seattle on the 29th for Seward, struck a rock in Seymour Narrows and was forced to return to Seattle for repairs. This accident will affect the mails here as the vessel was due at Skagway on Wednesday.

• January 11, 1935: The Railway Express Agency, Inc. are inaugurating a new service in conjunction with the Klondike Airways Ltd., the Whitehorse-Dawson mail contractors, between Whitehorse, Mayo and Dawson. The rates in this new service will be 20 cents per pound between either points.
• January 11, 1935: The Skagway Publie School finally re-opened on Monday, January 7th, after a vacation lengthened several days by frozen pipes and radiators in the School building.
• January 11, 1935: Max Hinsche of Germany, who has been in the Kluane country since last May collecting various specimens of wild life for a German institution, arrived here on Wednesday with George Chambers, the Whitehorse-Champagne mail carrier, and will make connection for the returm trip to Germany on the next boat.

• January 18, 1935: Illness brought on by his war services may necessitate immediate resignation by Hon. George Black, Speaker of the House of Commons and member for the Yukon.
• January 18, 1935: A crew of seven workmen in the employ of the Noah A. Timmins Corporation of Montreal arrived in town on Wednesday's train and left for Carmacks on the mail stage yesterday. The crew will he employed in the development work undertaken by the company on Mount Freegold.
• January 18, 1935: Lyman S. Peck, general manager of the Pacifie Alaska Airways, has just completed as tour of Alaska and is excited about his company's future there. On April first the are starting a new service from Ketchikan to Juneau and on into Fairbanks via Whitehorse.

• January 25, 1935: [There is not a single item of Yukon news on the 4 pages of this issue.]
• January 25, 1935: Gertrude Keturi, 22-year-old primary teacher in the territorial school at Fort Yukon, committed suicide recently. The radio message stated that the reason for the tragedy was unknown. A graduate of San Jose Teachers College in California, Miss Keturi spent much of her life at Flat, Alaska, but returned to Alaska last spring.
• January 25, 1935: Pilot Percy Hubbard is the hero of a night flight to Ruby on a mission of mercy. Read the entire article here.

February

• February 1, 1935: Four men were killed when their plane crashed into a railway snowshed near the summit of the White Pass on January 30th. It was the most serious transportation disaster yet in the Yukon. Read the entire article here.
• February 1, 1935: Is the Yukon - and particularly the Carmacks area - on the verge of a new era of prosperity and development? Certainly it appeared that way to ye editor on a visit through there last week. Read the entire article here.
• February 1, 1935: Seattle girls who have lived in Alaska are forming a junior women's auxiliary of Alaska Pioneers. Among them are Miss Dorothy Mathews, daughter of of Jos. R. Mathews, popular Chief Engineer of the steamer Yukon and Miss Helen McCann, daughter of Capt. J. S McCann of the same steamer.

• February 8, 1935: Martin Itjen, the colorful owner of Alaska's only streetcar, has taken it to California with him and is going to drive to Hollywood to see Mae West.
• February 8, 1935: The National Geographic Society of America has completed arrangements to send an expedition to explore certain portions of Canadian Territory near the U. S. boundary in Alaska The particular territory involved is the area west and south of Kluane Lake and north of Mts. Hubbard and Vancouver.
• February 8, 1935: Capt. George Black is now at the Soldiers' Hospital at London, Ontario. It was first planned to take him to John Hopkins Hospital at Baltimore but a sudden and rather desperate change took place in his condition, described as a complete nervous break-down.

• February 15, 1935: An unprecedented rally of social forces ardund the banner of education raised by the teacher of Carcross, Mr. W. Tinney, took place during the week set apart throughout the Dominion for that purpose.
• February 15, 1935: The Timmins operations at Carmacks are going ahead full blast, the diesel and compressor now installed and working very satisfactory. The tunneling is going forward about 15 feet per day and it is expected that the main vein will be reached in a very short time.
• February 15, 1935: It is reported that the Atlin Pacific (formerly Norgold) Mining Company have suspended operations at their Atlin, B.C. property and the entire crew laid off, ten of them leaving for Outside on Tuesday's Princess.

• February 22, 1935: Storms at Skagway on Friday last which extended as far as Carcross caused snow slides between Pennington and Bennett. The rotarys and snow plows found many small trees and rocks besides broken rails. One rock weighing ten tons required blasting. The crew managed to get through the slide between Mile Posts 44 and 45 on Thursday afternoon, which was the first time the line had been cleared right through since Friday last.
• February 22, 1935: R. J. Gleason, radio mechanician for the Pacific Alaska Airways, who has been installing the radio apparatus here, left this morning for Juneau, this station now being in operation.
• February 22, 1935: For lease, a portion of the Lake Creek placer drift ground on percentage basis. None but experienced drift miners need apply. Apply to T. H. Kerruish, Whitehorse.

March

• March 1, 1935: A fire which broke out in the Whitehorse Fire Hall tower two days ago was one of the closest calls that the town has ever had of being razed by fire, and there was another serious fire today. Read both articles here.
• March 1, 1935: Pilot L. H. Barr of the North Canada Air Express made a mercy flight to Minto yesterday, bringing Marion Horsfall, who is reported to be in a serious condition to the General Hospital here for medical attention.
• March 1, 1935: The Klondike Airways mail stage left yesterday afternoon, the two trucks being well loaded with mail and 24 passengers, all for Dawson.

• March 8, 1935: Another old-timer of the Yukon passed on to his great adventure in the person of Asa Officer, 67. Deceased had been indisposed for several days and on February 26 passed away at Skagway after a severe heart attack. Read the entire obituary here.
• March 8, 1935: T. H. Kerruish and W. J. Cletheroe, well known miners of Livingstone Creek, acted as spokesmen for their district at a recent meeting in which protests about the Gold Tax and royalties were formally lodged with Councillor Charles Atherton for discussion at the impending Council meeting at Dawson.
• March 8, 1935: George Black is still suffering greatly from a lumbar sinus and a possible tumor at the base of the brain, which the doctors have not quite determined as yet. He is being given electrical and serum treatments with the hope that an operation may be averted. The Blacks hope to leave for Dawson by mid May.

• March 15, 1935: Palmistry and phrenology readings are available at the J. P. Whitney cabin on Front Street. The lady phrenologist will give advice on marriage and love affairs and business. There are $1.00 and $2.00 readings.
• March 15, 1935: Louis Jacquot suffered a painful head injury while working on their mining property at Bullion Creek, a rock falling 30 feet down a shaft and striking him on the head. An examination by Dr. Lang, however, disclosed no permanent injury.
• March 15, 1935: The management of the Star tenders apologies to its readers for any shortcomings which may be a part of this issue as the Editor has been confined to bed with an attack of the 'flu up until today.

• March 22, 1935: A lengthy report on activities at Atlin, written by "Stampede John" Stenbraten, is published. Read the entire article here.
• March 22, 1935: The Whitehorse-Dawson mail contractors, T. C. Richards and W. L. Phelps, are to be commended on the speedy type of service they are inaugurating of late. The two Ford V8 trucks made the trip from here to Dawson last week in two and a half days exactly.
• March 22, 1935: The White Pass tri-motored Ford plane made two trips from Skagway here with mail from the steamer Alaska on Wednesday; also bringing in two residents of the Chooutla Indian Residential School at Carcross for medical attention at the General Hospital here.

• March 29, 1935: With 24 rinks entered and every one of them imbued with the ambition to "go places," some wild and wooly, interspersed with some of the real variety, curling was seen in the Annual Spring Bonspiel of the Whitehorse Curling Club.
• March 29, 1935: The teaching staff of the school are anxious to secure the use of a set of boxing gloves. Anyone having a set is requested to get in touch with Mr. Dave Broadfoot.
• March 29, 1935: Mrs. Edward Hensley died on Friday last after a short illness. While not a resident of this community for a great length of time, Mrs. Hensley endeared herself to all with whom she came in contact with. Read the entire obituary here.

April

• April 6, 1935: The landing of a Pacific Alaska Airways 10 passenger Lockheed Electra plane on April 3rd inaugurated the regular flight service between Juneau, Whitehorse and Fairbanks.
• April 6, 1935: A quiet wedding of local interest was solemnized last Sunday, March 31, when Aline Arbour, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Antoine Cyr, became the bride of William Drury Taylor, eldest son of Mr. and Mys. Isaac Taylor of this town.
• April 6, 1935: For the information of shippers, the Canadian Pacific freight steamer Nootka, handling gasoline, explosives and other freight not handled on regular steamers, will leave Vancouver on or about May 1.

• April 12, 1935: Marking another epoch in the history of aviation in Yukon, residents of Whitehorse turned out to welcome the new P. A. A. service at the Airport Sunday, when the 10-passenger Lockheed Electra plane landed here on the first return trip from Fairbanks to Juneau. [Most of the front page is reports about the event.]
• April 12, 1935: While the town is hardly big enough - or progressive enough - to support a mayor, some body such as a Board of Trade should be organized to handle situations such as the inaugural P. A. A. flights, and to extend common courtesy an`d consideration to such visitors.
• April 12, 1935: The White Pass tri-motor plane transported a crew composed of Capt. N. Marion, Frank Harbottle and F. Boss, and the necessary supplies to the Thirty-mile River, where improvement work in clearing the channel will be done.

• April 19, 1935: At a recent meeting, fire protection for the town was discussed. The Yukon Electrical Company intends to change over the present steam plant to diesel engines this year, and they are offering to procure a 100 horse-power Hall-Scott gasoline engine to power the fire pumps, greatly increasing pumping capacity. It was also thought advisable to make the well in the Fire Hall deeper and to renew and enlarge the piping which leads from the river to the well.
• April 19, 1935: W. Hair of Vancouver runs ads about their fur tanning in every issue. The average price for silver fox is $2.00, bear is $5.00, muskrat 40c, beaver $1.50, etc.
• April 19, 1935: Among the passengers arriving on the Princess of the 13th enroute to Atlin were: J. H. Eastman and family and R. Tyrer and family, Both Eastman and Tyrer are interested in mining properties in that district.

• April 26, 1935: [There is no Yukon news on the 3 pages of this issue.]
• April 26, 1935: The price of silver is streaking upward - on April 24th it was 74 7/8; lead was 3.75. [The price of silver at New York is noted on the front page of every issue.]
• April 26, 1935: In response to suggestions that Southeast Alaska be given to Canada as payment for the rights to build a highway across BC, the Anchorage Times discusses the ways the highway would benefit Canada.

May

• May 3, 1935: Francis Navier Laderoute, 95-year-old French Canadian from the Yukon, is going to marry Mrs. Katherine Smithers, 70, of St. Paul, Minneapolis, as soon as she returns from Honolulu. The Yukoner looks more like 65 than 95 and has not been out of the Yukon for 37 vears except for a short visit to Edmonton in 1921.
• May 3, 1935: According to a report received here this week, there are 42 natives at an encampment near Fifty-Two Mile seriously ill with influenza. Two members of the R.C.M.P. staff stationed here left with medical supplies, etc., by police car and will bring back a definite report some time this week.
• May 3, 1935: At the new Mt. Freegold gold quartz camp there is situated a number of promising prospects that have sensational values, with many outcrops of commercial ore now in sight over an area of five miles. At the present time there are 35 prospectors engaged in developing their various deposits and mineralized surface showings.

• May 10, 1935: Pilot Frank Dorbrandt, who carved out a unique record in aviation in Alaska and neighbouring regions, has died of pneumonia after being injured when hit by a propeller. ExploreNorth has posted a comprehensive history of his short life (1893-1935) here, with 53 newspaper articles.
• May 10, 1935: Since the arrival of the Bee family and others at Mount Freegold, there seems to be a great deal of activity, especially for the dog teams. Stanley Fairclongh and Dan Van Bibber are vary much in demand, hauling supplies for the Carmarks Syndicate and Thomas Bee.
• May 10, 1935: The Silver Jubilee of His Majesty's reign was fittingly celebrated in Whitehorse on Monday last. A long list of events during the day were organized by the I. O. D. E., and the day closed with a well attended dance held under the auspices of the Fire Brigade.

• May 17, 1935: Father Bernard R. Hubbard, S.J., announces from San Jose, California, where he is at present residing, that he plans making another trip of exploration into the frozen North in the not far distant future. This will be the ninth trip Father Hubbard has made into Alaska, and it will be his last, he states.
• May 17, 1935: Manager J. Morrison and Field Supt. Don Abel of the P.A.A. went last week on an inspection trip to the emergency landing field at Burwash. They were, however, unable to reach their destination, being forced back when they arrived at the Tookena River on account of ice conditions.
• May 17, 1935: Dr H. A. Herkenroth, Dentist of Dawson, came in on Tuesday's train from Carcross where he has been located for the past 4 or 5 months. He has left for Mayo where he will remain for about 3 weeks when he will go on to Dawson.

• May 24, 1935: A thirty ounce gold nugget, valued at $1,000 is found near Atlin by Allen Morrison, Dan McKay and F. Johnson. This is the fourth big nugget found in the Atlin district since the days of '98.
• May 24, 1935: A complete list of crew members for the White Pass & Yukon Route steamers Keno, Casca, Klondike, Yukon, and Tutshi are published on the front page.
• May 24, 1935: Miss Mary Ella Richie of Salem, Oregon Was the first tourist to arrive in town this season. She came in on Monday's train.

• May 31, 1935: A very successful and delightful children's masquerade was held in the N. S. A. A. Hall on May 17th under the auspices of the Yukon Chapter, I. O. D. E. In all 52 children appeared in costume.
• May 31, 1935: Only 14 people have joined the Robert Service Camp Association and paid the $1.00 annual fee. The use of the kitchen and equipment is confined to members.
• May 31, 1935: C. Johnson, Indian, came across Lake LaBarge last Wedneday night 22nd and hauled his boat across the ice with his dog team.

June

• June 7, 1935: Golden Forty Mile, the Cradle of the Klondike, is finally coming into its own after years of pick and shovel or hand-mining. With the introduction of modern dredges, coupled with the increased price of gold, it may yet be a strong rival, in point of gold production, to the famous Klondike and the other outstanding placer fields of the north.
• June 7, 1935: On Thursday of last week the S.S. Whitehorse left her moorings at the dock and steamed down the river, with a scow ahead, for the express purpose of making a channel, if possible, through the heavy ice which covered Lake Labarge. The S.S. Keno followed on Friday but neither of these steamers carried any passengers.
• June 7, 1935: Her many friends here will be pleased to learn that Mrs. Josephine White (widow of the late Stroller White) has resumed her duties as assistant in the Territorial Library and Museum at Juneau. The late Stroller White was a unique character in journalism and was at one time publisher of the Whitehorse Star.

• June 14, 1935: Frank Jackson, better known in the Cassiar as "Groundhog Jackson", well known trapper and miner who lives at Grand Rapids on the Stikine River,made a hazardous 5-mile tramp with not much clothing and nothing on his feet but gunnysacks after his beaver-hunting camp burned.
• June 14, 1935: First leg of the much-discussed International Highway may be undertaken this year; building a highway from Fairbanks to the Canadian boundary near Dawson. It would later be incorporated in the great highway, when and if the Canadian government sees its way clear to further the project.
• June 14, 1935: The work of mapping out an uncharted region of approximately one thousand miles, extending between Alsek and the U.S. boundary has been practically completed by Mr. Bradford Washburn and his party under the auspices of the National Geographic Society of America. Read the entire article here.

• June 21, 1935: The Timmins Corporation of Montreal, who have been engaged in developing the rich ore bodies on Mt. Freegold near Carmacks, have officially released all optioned holdings which they were engaged in developing. Mr. R. K. Legge, engineer in charge of the workings, stated that developments thus far had not proved up to expectations.
• June 21, 1935: H. E. Moore, newspaper writer who has been spending several weeks vacation in Whitehorse with friends, left on Thursday enroute to his home in Victoria.
• June 21, 1935: Commissioner and Mrs. G. A. Jeckell arrived on Wednesday's steamer. Mr. Jeckell is here on his annual inspection trip of the southern end of the Territory.

• June 28, 1935: Delegates to the twenty-sixth Annual Meeting of the Yukon Women's Auxiliary and friends were entertained at a luncheon held at Mr. C. T. Atherton's Ice Lake cabin on Tuesday.
• June 28, 1935: The White Pass track car made a special trip to Carcross on Sunday to accomodate Harrison Wood of the Wood Expedition. By taking him and his equipment to Carcross, he was able to make connection with the Northern Airways plane the following morning and was at Kluane Lake in time for breakfast.
• June 28, 1935: An editorial makes extremely negative comments about the Timmins Corporation over their cancellation of the Mount Freegold options after only spending $60,000 on development.

July

• July 5, 1935: A painful accident was sustained by Capt. John MeDonald of the steamer Tutshi when he slipped and fell on a sidewalk and dislocated his hip. He was brought to the General Hospital here on Wednesday to secure medical attention.
• July 5, 1935: The town is taking on a very bright appearance lately, with many residences showing a shiny new exterior. Among those brightening up their homes with a new coat of paint recently were H. Daglish, C. D. Hamilton and George Cappel. They are to be commended as it certainly adds to the clean appearance of our town.
• July 5, 1935: The display ads run in every issue by "Buzzsaw Jimmy" seldom say what he does anymore (he sells firewood), but always feature his "poetry."

• July 12, 1935: Saturday, July 6th, was the occasion of a very happy and successful picnic at Squaw Park, held for the Indian residents by Christ Church, the total attendance being 56.
• July 12, 1935: Bernadine Hearn, 12-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Perry Hearn of Skagway passed away at Skagway on Tuesday after a short illness. Mr. Hearn is proprietor of a cigar and confectionery store in Skagway and is an old time resident of that town.
• July 12, 1935: Wm. Smith, proprietor of the Gateway Store at Skagway for many years, passed away at Skagway on Tuesday morning after a lengthy illness. Mr. Smith was well known locally, visiting here every year for his health.

• July 19, 1935: While taking off from McDames Creek, scene of the recent gold strike, on Saturday last, Capt. W. Strong's Fokker amphibian plane failed to gain altitude with disastrous results to party and plane. The machine was totally demolished. Read the entire article here.
• July 19, 1935: With the new 110-volt plant of tho Yukon Electrical Co., Ltd. rapidly nearing completion, the owners of electrical appliances are beginning to place their orders for new 110-volt motors. Many are asking to have these motors shielded to avoid interference with radio. When ordering your new pump, washing machine or vacuum motors, specify "shielded against Radio Interference."
• July 19, 1935: Father G. Allard, younger brother of Father Allard of Skagway, was drowned in the Dease River on Saturday, July 18. Meagre reports state Father Allard and Bishop) Bunose were making an inspection trip of the Cassiar District. They took passage from here to Dease Lake by plane a few days ago.

• July 26, 1935: The fire demon once again visited Whitehorse when the upper chambers of the Canadian Bank of Commerce went afire on Tuesday afternoon.
• July 26, 1935: It is with deep regret that we report the passing of J.P. Bourne, Chief Engineer of the St. Tutshi, who was found dead in his room on the steamer during the afternoon of July 20th, en route from Carcross to Taku. Read the entire obituary here.
• July 26, 1935: Advices were received from Mrs. G. Black Monday that Capt. Black, M.P., who has been critically ill for some months past, has now completely recovered his health and, if Yukoners desire him to continue to represent them in Parliament, will be a candidate for the Yukon constituency representing the Conservative Party, in the forthcoming election.

August

• August 2, 1935: Charles Henry Johnston died at Jubilee Hospital in Victoria, B.C, on July 20. The late Mr. Johnston was a bridge builder by trade and came to the Yukon in 1898, where he was employed by the White Pass & Yukon Railway during construction. He was proprietor of the Regina Hotel in Whitehorse until 1920, when he moved to B.C.
• August 2, 1935: Livingston Wernecke, general manager for the Treadwell Yukon Co. at Mayo, in company with T. C. Richards, Yukon manager for Burns & Co. Ltd., made a trip last week-end to Carmacks in the T. Y. plane, where Mr. Wernecke inspected some of the showings on Mt. Freegold.
• August 2, 1935: Nine families, discouraged at conditions found in Uncle Sam's newest colonization project in the Matanuska Valley of Alaska, left here last week for Seward to take a boat back to the states and their drought-parched lands of the mid-west. For much more information, see The Matanuska Colony: The New Deal in Alaska.

• August 9, 1935: George and Martha Black have moved back to Whitehorse. George was advised by his doctor to not run for election, but Martha was unanimously nominated as the candidate for the Conservative Party. Read the entire article here.
• August 9, 1935: L. B. Jones, general agent for the Canadian National Railways at Skagway, made his annual visit to Whitehorse this week. He says all ships up to the present had been booked full, and the flagship of the fleet, the Prince Robert, especially, has carried full capacity loads; the ship now calling at Sitka has enhanced the company's Alaska cruises.
• August 9, 1935: R. McCleery, merchant and fur buyer of Teslin, arrived in town Wednesday by small boat to pick up supplies for his post. Mr. MeCleery reports the best business in his area in the past five years and is highly pleased with conditions in general.

  

• August 16, 1935: Wiley Post, famous round-world flier noted for his stratosphere flights, and Will Rogers celebrated humourist, writer and film star, were instantly killed this morning when their plane crashed 15 miles south of Point Barrow.
• August 16, 1935: The first sluice box robbery in 25 years occurred at Atlin last Friday night, when Messrs. Morse, Bratt and McKechnie, well known miners of the district, had their boxes cleaned of not less than one hundred ounces of gold.
• August 16, 1935: Mrs. C. F. Johnson, supt. of the Indian School at Dawson, arrived on the steamer Klondike on Saturday last and left for Carcross Sunday, where she will spend a few days before leaving for Toronto, where she will make her home in future

• August 23, 1935: The Service Airlines plane based at Fairbanks, which left Dawson on Monday morning enroute to Fairbanks with Pilot Arthur Hines and three passengers, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Long and Mr. Alton Nordale, is still missing. It is thought that the plane was forced down somewhere in the Tanana Valley.
• August 23, 1935: The South African Gold Fields Co., which have taken an option on the Laforma Group at Mt. Freegold in the Carmacks district, are examining the property preparatory to mapping out definite plans further development work on that group.
• August 23, 1935: The well and favorably known firm of Jacquot Bros., big game guides and merchants of Kluane, are now preparing another of their noted hunts for Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Forman, and Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner Gibson, both of Buffalo, New York, who arrived here on Wednesday's train.

• August 30, 1935: The remaining members of the Wood Expedition arrived in town this week from the St. Elias range, where as well as their mapping project, they made the first ascent of Mount Steele, approximately 16,459 feet high, and the highest peak on the Yukon watershed.
• August 30, 1935: Repairs to the Canadian Bank of Commerce, which was badly damaged by fire, has been started, W. G. Chantler, local carpenter and contractor, having secured the contract. Al. Stewart was the successful bidder for the interior decorating and will also give the building a brand new coat of paint.
• August 30, 1935: G. A. Jeckell, Commissioner of the Yukon, arrived here from Dawson on the White Pass amphibian plane Monday on an official visit, Selkirk and Carmacks also being visited on the way here. After a brief but busy visit, Mr. Jeckell left on the steamer Klondike Monday night, for the return journey.

September

• September 6, 1935: This is Alfred Lomen's story of how he flew from Nome to the scene of the Post-Rogers tragedy at Point Barrow to get pictures of the tragedy, then raced other newsmen back to Seattle. Read the entire story here.
• September 6, 1935: It is with great sorrow that we chronicle the death of Russell James Williams, two-vear-old infant son of Mr. and Mrs. H. Williams of Whitehorse. Read the entire obituary here.
• September 6, 1935: W. A. Colmar, a former resident of Carcross, has announced his intention to contest the forthcoming election in the interests of the Co-Operative Commonwealth Federation Party (C.C.F.).

• September 13, 1935: With sincere regret we learn of the passing of J. R. Mathews, chief Engineer of the Steamer Yukon, on Sept. 8, in the Hudson Stuck Memorial Hospital at Ft. Yukon, Alaska. Read the entire obituary here.
• September 13, 1935: E. J. Hamacher, pioneer merchant and photographer of Whitehorse, had the misfortune to be marooned at Lake LaBerge for four days last week, the engine of his launch breaking down. He was rescued by Chas. Hamilton, who went looking for him.
• September 13, 1935: Miss M. McDonald, matron at the General Hospital, and Miss Janet McTavish, also of the staff of the institution, made a trip to Carcross by car Saturday, arriving there in time to have a delicious lunch aboard the S.S. Tutshi.

• September 20, 1935: The Stewart, B.C. Board of Trade states that in addition to being situated strategically as a commercial airplane base on the flying lanes between Seattle-Vancouver-Northern B.C.-Yukon-Alaska and eventually Asia, Meziadin Lake, 26 miles east of Stewart, will fit into the national scheme of air bases being established throughout Canada.
• September 20, 1935: A change in the steamers on the Whitehorse-Dawson run was made by the company this week, the steamer Excella [Aksala] replacing the steamer Casca, which is being berthed for the winter and is also undergoing necessary repairs.
• September 20, 1935: This beer ad comments on the shipping of beer to the Yukon on the steamship Islander - her first sailing to Alaska left Victoria on July 28, 1897. See this series of history-themed Phoenix Export Lager ads here.
  

• September 27, 1935: Owing to the limited knowledge of ye Editor in regards to ships and shipping in general, the steamer Aksala was called Excella in a report of that vessel taking the place of the Casca. However, we can now truthfully report to the merchants who advertise that the Star is read extensively, as many, many and many kind friends have casually drawn our attention to our grievous error.
• September 27, 1935: F, M. Kardanoff, proprietor of the White Pass Barber Shop, leaves on the PAA Electra plane Sunday enroute to Caucasus district in Russia, where he will spend several months visiting his relatives in his old home.
• September 27, 1935: A special train was dispatched from Whitehorse to Skagway on Monday by the White Pass Rly. to accomodate eight passengerg unable to get over the Summit in the PAA Electra plane owing to adverse weather conditions. However, by the courtesy extended to them by the railway officials, they made connection with the C.P.R. steamer Louise.

October

• October 4, 1935: Of profound shock to oldtime Yukoners was the sudden passing of W. J. Rendell, surveying engineer for the Yukon Consolidated Gold Corp. at Dawson, on September 28, the cause being ascribed to a heart ailment. Born in Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, 62 years ago, Mr. Rendell came to the Yukon in 1900.
• October 4, 1935: Once again the hum of activities is being seen and heard on Mt. Freegold as the new company is preparing to start immediate development on the Laforma Group, bonded once again. The present crew of about 12 men are now busy erecting a new bunkhouse and a new assay office, prior to starting actual development of the property.
• October 4, 1935: S. Coulter, Collector of Customs at Whitehorse, recently retired and superannuated after 22 years in the service, was the recipient of a host of good wishes on his departure for Victoria on Wednesday morning, accompanied by his charming wife and two daughters, Patricia and Mary.

• October 11, 1935: Chas. McConnell was a visitor in town Wednesday from Robinson, and reports the road in good shape over Cowley swamp. Claude Irvine came in from Annie Lake with him, and will spend a few days here renewing old acquaintances.
• October 11, 1935: Mr. and Mrs. J. E. French and family left on Wednesday's train for Carcross, where they will spend a few weeks, Mr. French having the contract for extensive repairs to the Chooutla Indian Residential School.
• October 11, 1935: A. R. Hayes, former government telegraph operator at Big Salmon who has been spending the last few weeks relieving at the local office, left on Saturday last for Atlin, where he has been transferred.

• October 18, 1935: In the October 14th federal election, Mrs. George Black, wife of the former Speaker of the House, and Independent Conservative candidate for the Yukon Territory, emerged victor over J. P. Smith, Independent Liberal and eminent barrister and solicitor of Vancouver and a former Yukon resident, by a small majority.
• October 18, 1935: White Pass & Yukon Route has added an 11 passenger Fairchild Model 82 seaplane to their air service. It was especially built for service in the Yukon.
• October 18, 1935: Messrs. Macauley and Voss, prospectors and miners on Iron Creek, in the Alsek district, have unearthed a new metal which, up to the present, has defied analysis of its contents. In colour the metal is silvery grey, but when exposed to the air a short time, turns a brownish shade.

• October 25, 1935: Word has been received that Rev. A. R. Parsons, rector of St. Saviour's Church at Carcross, will continue in charge of that parish this winter, a special grant obtained by the Bishop enabling this to be done.
• October 25, 1935: Clawed, by an Alaskan brown bear in a death struggle at Chicagoff last September 22, his scalp ripped open in five places by a bear's claws, his leg bitten in seven places, and his right arm and face scratched and chewed, 17-year-old Wyne Phillips returned to Juneau yesterday afternoon on his boat "Sitka."
• October 25, 1935: Foreman John Williams and Sam Cutmore, section workmen injured in the collision last week, returned to Carcross this week after having their injuries attended to at the General Hospital here.

November

• November 1, 1935: It was with sincere and profound regret that the community learned of the passing of E. J. Hamacher on Tuesday evening, at the Whitehorse General Hospital. Read the entire obituary here.
• November 1, 1935: Miss F. McDonald, popular matron of the Whitehorse General Hospital who has so many times proved a source of comfort to the sick and infirm, left on today's train enroute to Princeton, B.C., where she will join the staff of the Princeton General Hospital after a short holiday in Vancouver.
• November 1, 1935: The Japanese workman injured in the track car collision a short time ago is now resting easily but is not expected to be discharged for some time yet.

• November 8, 1935: The missing plane of the Northern Air Transport Co. of Fairbanks, unheard of since leaving Dawson Saturday enroute to Fairbanks, was located today on an island in the Yukon River near Cassiar Roadhouse by the Northern Airways plane piloted by Bob Randall. The plane appears to be intact, and all six people waved from the cabin door.
• November 8, 1935: H. A. Stewart, one of the real pioneer mining men of the Yukon, arrived in Seattle this week from the Sixty Mile River where he is operating a deep drift placer property, and says that good pay is being hit. Read the entire article here.
• November 8, 1935: Funeral services were held from Christ Church Tuesday for Mrs. Thomas Smith, aged 85, who passed away at the General Hospital on Saturday, November 2. A large number of friends were in attendance to pay last respects to the deceased. Interment was in the Whitehorse Native Cemetery, Rev. C. H. Jenkins officiating.

• November 15, 1935: Twenty-eight basketball enthusiasts arrived from Skagway on Thursday, the first time a basketball team has officially come here from Skagway. The Skagway players displayed a brand of basketball seldom witnessed in a small town, and like Caesar, they came, saw, and conquered.
• November 15, 1935: The first flood for many years occurred this week when the Yukon River at Whitehorse began to rise rapidly and overflowed the lower portion of the riverbank. The cause is ascribed to an ice jam somewhere below the town. The Whitehorse Laundry is entirely surrounded by water which has advanced over the railway tracks and onto some portion of the road. A gasboat belonging to the late E. J. Hamacher was demolished by the ice.
• November 15, 1935: The Annual Armistice Dance, held in the Whitehorse Inn on Friday, November 8 under auspices of the Canadian Legion, B.E.S.L., was one of the gala events of the year, being largely attended and the dancers both young and old enjoying themselves thoroughly. The music, which was exceptionally good, was furnished by Frank Allen's One-Man Band, with Bert Sansom assisting at the traps.

• November 22, 1935: A list of almost 80 books received by the Whitehorse Public Library since last December was published.
• November 22, 1935: Yukon Chapter, I.O.D.E., celebrated its 21st birthday by holding a contract bridge party in the home of one of its members, Mrs. Frank Wilson. The rooms were artistically decorated for the occasion and six tables were in play. Admission was a jar of home preserves, which were given to the hospital.
• November 22, 1935: Capt. J. McDonald, veteran skipper of the B. Y. N. fleet, was discharged from the General Hospital on Tuesday, leaving on the train enroute to his home Outside. Dr. A. C. Duncan, Medical Superintendent for Whitehorse District, accompanied Capt. McDonald on the first Jap of his journey.

• November 29, 1935: While getting water from the river, O. Erickson, proprietor of the Regina Hotel, sustained painful injuries when he slipped and fell heavily on the ice on the river. It is feared that several ribs may he fractured, and his right arm is also painfully injured.
• November 29, 1935: Residents of the town are advised not to be alarmed if they hear the fire whistle on December 1st, Sunday, as it is the intention of the Yukon Electrical Company to try out the new siren with the old whistle under the supervision of Fire Chief Walker.
• November 29, 1935: George Colburn, old-time resident of Atlin, formerly of Minneapolis, died suddenly from natural causes on November 10th. The deceased was interred on November 13th, Rev. Graham officiating in the absence of a Catholic priest.

December

• December 6, 1935: In the trial test given to both the old and new fire siren on Sunday last by the Yukon Electrical Company and the Fire Department, it was the consensus of opinion that the new alarm is decidedly lacking in its sound-carrying capacity, many of the residents being unable to hear it in their homes.
• December 6, 1935: Of much interest to local residents is the wedding of Mr. Robert "Bob" Taylor, section foreman at Cowley, to Miss Elizabeth Geddes of Peterhead, Scotland, the marriage ceremony taking place at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. Delgarno in Vancouver on November 14th.
• December 6, 1935: It has been observed that great enthusiasm is being shown by the younger generation in turning out to make ice at the Curling Rink, which is at it should be. The older generation have done their part and it is up to the younger ones to carry on.

• December 13, 1935: World silver markets were demoralized Tuesday, with offers flooding the market and no buyes as the United States Treasury apparently refused to bid for metal in the face of far Eastern selling. The London market failed for the first time to post a price.
• December 13, 1935: Cold weather and blizzards have been the fare of the Territory this past week and to date it is continuing unceasingly. The Klondike Airways, Dawson mail contractors, were forced to tie up their fleet of trucks and use caterpillar tractors and snowmobiles owing to the heavy drifts on the trail. It is reported that there is over four feet of snow down the trail.
• December 13, 1935: What may have developed into a serious fire was narrowly averted on Sunday at the home of H. T. Perchie by the timely arrival of a fire extinguisher, brought by Ken Yoshida, popular manager of the Whitehorse Inn.

• December 20, 1935: A white-haired grandmother, with a merry twinkle in her eye and a sharper mind that most of the girls, is in Winnipeg on the way to take her seat in the house of commons as Canada's second woman member. Read the entire article about Martha Black here.
• December 20, 1935: Of much interest to local residents is the marriage on Thursday, December 12th, of Miss Dorothy Livingstone Phelps, R.N. only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Phelps of Whitehorse, to Mr. John Scott, son of Mrs. J. Scott of Whitehorse. The bride journeyed to Mayo by Northern Airways plane for the ceremony.
• December 20, 1935: A. K. Stewart, painter and decorator of Whiteltorse, left on Monday enroute to his home in Vancouver for the Christmas festivities after a busy season here. [week after week, a high percentage of the comments in the "Local and Personal" section on the last page are about people heading Outside for the winter]

• December 27, 1935: [there is no Yukon news on the 4 pages of this issue]
• December 27, 1935: When the ice breaks up around Nome next spring Peter Rodger Conley and Capt. John C. Benson, who were sourdoughs in '98, will leave Oakland on one of the biggest gold hunts in Alaskan history. They will sail out of the Golden Gate in a 202-foot gold dredge to look for the precious metal on the floor of the Bering Sea.
• December 27, 1935: The Charles A. Lindberghs, weary of kidnappers' threats against their second son, and displeased by activities looking toward clemency for the convicted slayer of their first-born, have left America to establish a home in England.

1936

January

• January 3, 1936: Steve Elieff, formerly of Mayo and and Keno Hill, passed away in hospital at Atlin at 10:30 p.m. December 10th, having suffered for some time from miner's consumption. Funeral services were held Sunday 16th. Mr. Elieff leaves a son aged 17 in Atlin, and relatives in Bremerton, Wash.
• January 3, 1936: Misses Mary MacBride, Betty Paterson and Lucille Gray, accompanied by Master Stuart Macpherson, made the trip to Kemto Way Hut Cabin near Gray Mountain last week-end.
• January 3, 1936: On word being received last week that Mr. Watt, oldtimer of the Kluane district, was ill, the Northern Airways plane with Bob Randall at the controls was engaged to bring the suffering man to the General Hospital here for aid. Sgt. Withers accompanied the plane on the trip.

• January 10, 1936: When the census was taken in Canada so short a time ago as 1920 there was no such person as a Canadian. There were Scots, Englishmen, Irishmen, Welshmen, Germans, Italians, Chinese and others in Canada but no Canadians. But since then our autonomy, or right of self-government, has been recognized. Glory be, there are now Canadians in this vast country of ours.
• January 10, 1936: The beautiful patch work quilt which was raffled at the New Year's Eve Ball was a gift to Yukon Chapter I. O. D. E. from Mrs. Alfred Scott, late of Carcross, who is still a member of Yukon Chapter. The quilt was won by Mrs. J. Rose, and the proceeds of the raffle became the nucleus for a Frigidaire Fund for the Whitehorse General Hospital.
• January 10, 1936: At a small gathering of local radio fans, the question of electric radios and the power plant was the subject of on animated discussion. That the hours of service are eminently satisfactory was clearly demonstrated by the numerous favorable remarks from all sides.

• January 17, 1936: Miss Mary Joyce, 27, travelling alone with her dog sled team, arrived in Atlin from Tulsequah, B.C., on the first lap of her trip from Taku to Fairbanks Thursday. Proprietor of the Twin Glaciers Lodge on the Taku River, she is making the trip "just for the experience."
• January 17, 1936: J. A. Simmons, the new Collector of Customs at Whitehorse, accompanied by Mrs. Simmons, arrived from Carcross by White Pass plane on Wednesday and will make their future home in this community
• January 17, 1936: John "Stampede" Stenbraten, well known miner and prospector of the Territory, arrived in town from Carmacks on Saturday after spending several months in the assay office of the Yukon Consolidated at Mt. Freegold.

• January 24, 1936: "The King is dead!" A stunned Empire can hardly give credit to the ominous tidings which is flashed to every point of the world. Groups are gathered together everywhere - hushed groups, scarcely seeming to absorb the import of the calamity which has befallen the nation.
• January 24, 1936: Joseph Hodder, pioneer of the Territory, was found dead recently at his wood camp on the Pelly River, says The Mayo Miner. His body was frozen and found on the floor of his cabin by an Indian who he had employed cutting wood.
• January 24, 1936: Mrs. Eugene Jacquot, wife of the famed big game guide of Kluane, arrived in town by dog team from Burwash last week. Mrs. Jacquot will leave for the return trip about Saturday and will act as guide for Miss Joyce, Taku-Fairbanks musher.

• January 31, 1936: As a final tribute to the late King George V, a fitting service was held on Tuesday in Christ Church. An exceptionally large number of local citizens attended to pay last respects to their deceased sovereign, while the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, resplendent in their scarlet and gold uniforms, turned out in a body. The officers and members of the Canadian Legion also paraded in a body to the Church, there being the largest turnout recorded for some time.
• January 31, 1936: Last evening was the "big nite" for all the school children in the community, the event being the showing of three two-reel films by I. Taylor, pioneer merchant of the Yukon. Mr. Taylor, who is the proud owner of an up-to-the-minute movie camera and projector, showed one film about Australia, and two comedies.
• January 31, 1936: Dr. Fenton B. Whiting, pioneer Seattle surgeon and "pal" of great and small Alaskans of the gold rush days, died early this week at his Richmond Beach home. He had been ill since last summer, when he suffered a stroke. The "sourdough surgeon" spent ten years in Alaska in the early days.

February

• February 7, 1936: A large body of extremely high grade ore is reported to be located on the Laforma Group workings at Carmacks, now optioned to the South African Gold Fields Ltd.
• February 7, 1936: At 8:00 a.m. yesterday, the temperature at Whitehorse was 62 below; at Atlin, 48 below.
• February 7, 1936: Hockey fans enjoyed the opening game of the year on Sunday. The oldtime clan is still there and the puck sizzled. An appreciative crowd of spectators lined the boards and gave a splendid welcome to the many new players in evidence.

• February 14, 1936: Mrs. L. S. Kingston, wife of Corporal Kingston of the R.C.M.P. detachment at Carcross, narrowly escaped serious injury from the snapping jaws of four savage huskies which got out of control on Wednesday. The dogs were hitched to a sled outside the entrance to the R.C.M.P. office. The injured woman was brought to Whitehorse by Northern Airways plane piloted by Boh Randall. She remains in the hospital but is expected to be released today or tomorrow.
• February 14, 1936: The Hard Time Dance scheduled for tonight has been postponed owing to the extremely cold weather prevailing. Watch for future announcement of date in the Star.
• February 14, 1936: Walter Troberg, popular manager of the Dawson Family Theatre, arrived on today's train, and left by mail stage for Dawson after having spent an enjoyable holiday in the southern States.

• February 21, 1936: The need for a more powerful fire alarm was clearly demonstrated on Saturday, but for the people of Whitehorse to expect the government to expend further funds on fire equipment is ridiculous when one takes into consideration the revenue accruing from the town. They are taxed less than any similar town in Canada today. Read the entire article here.
• February 21, 1936: Three essays about Education Week, written by pupils of Whitehorse School, were published. The authors were Mary MacBride, Wilda Richards, and Lorraine Watson.
• February 21, 1936: Tuesday, February 25 is heing observed as Visitors' Day at the school. All residents of Whitehorse are invited to visit the school on that day at any time between the hours of one and three-thirty p.m.

• February 28, 1936: With the arrival this week of T. C. Richards, General Manager of Klondike Airways, overland mail carriers, and Slim Keobke, master mechanician of the company, each driving one of the new triple assembly snowmobiles in which they covered the distance from Dawson here in 28 hours running time, a new era in overland transportation was inaugurated in Yukon.
• February 28, 1936: E. H. Barker, former Superintendent of the Service Branch of the Treadwell Yukon Co. at Mayo, arrived on Tuesday with a well equipped mining outfit which he is taking into Haggert Creek, a tributary of the McQueston River lying about 145 miles from Mayo. Included in the outfit is a Caterpillar Tractor, Scraper, double drum hoist and two sleigh loads of supplies including 1200 gallons of gasoline.
• February 28, 1936: Louis Belney, aged 74, died at Chilliwack, B.C. on Monday. The deceased Was enjoying a well earned vacation on the Coast visiting friends when he was taken suddenly by a heart attack. He came to the Territory around 1897 or 1898, engaged in the time honored trade of prospecting and traveled through many parts of the country in search of the elusive metal.

March

• March 6, 1936: Carcross schools had busy schedules of Education Week activities. Among other activities, The Carcross Public School was visited by Chooutla Indian Residential School on the afternoon of Thursday, the Public School pupils and staff returning the visit to Chooutla School the following day.
• March 6, 1936: W. H. S. McFarland, general manager of Yukon Consolidated Gold Corp'n., left New York recently for London, where he will confer with directors of his company. The company last year took over fifty additional miles of placer creeks in the Dawson area and also acquired options on extensive and promising gold quartz properties in the Carmacks area where a crew is now working.
• March 6, 1936: Break in the severe cold spell of the past three weeks enabled T. Y. Co. Sup't. Wernecke to make three trips to the company's camps on Galena Hill this week. Garaged all last week on account of the 50-below weather, the company trucks got into action and have been busy all week rolling supplies and wood to the main camps there.

• March 13, 1936: Conservative members of the Commons held a caucus recently with Mrs. George Black, Member for Yukon, attending. It was the first time a woman had been present at a Conservative caucus of House members.
• March 13, 1936: Fifty-three Dawsonites, headed by Comptroller G. A. Jeckell, journeved to Fairbanks by air on Friday last to attend the big Ice Carnival being held in that city. The Dawson contingent included "Miss Dawson," the charming Bernice Ann Kazinsky; a team of lady curlers; and a men's rink. The Senior Hockey string, in charge of the veteran Jim Johnstone, a member of the famous Klondike Hockey Team that toured the East many years ago, also made the trip.
• March 13, 1936: The large snowslide on the railway which has been delaying the dispatch of trains this week was cleared at 4:30 Tuesday, two trains being run on Wednesday and Thursday. On Sunday the White Pass tri-motor Ford made trips to Carcross and Whitehorse to get mail and passengers for Tuesday's Princess.

• March 20, 1936: Dawson is under quarantine, all public meetings and gatherings being banned, due to an outbreak of scarlet fever. The contagious malady is said to have been brought to Dawson by citizens who attended the recent Ice Carnival in Fairbanks, where the malady has spread to the epidemic stage.
• March 20, 1936: A lively and humorous play was produced in the Globe Theatre in Atlin on Tuesday evening March 7th. The presentation, which was in aid of St. Andrew's Hospital, went over big, the receipts totalling over $200.00.
• March 20, 1936: A work train enroute to Robinson was derailed near the south end of Cowley siding when a broken rail was encountered Tuesday, the locomotive fouling the main line right-of-way. The locomotive, which was in charge of Engineer L. Selmar, was re-railed Thursday by a crew of men from Skagway.

• March 27, 1936: Billy Roxborough, 19-year-old Atlin youth, narrowly escaped death here on Friday when he received a severe eut over the right temple from a double bitted axe. Only the immediate application of first aid treatment prevented the boy from bleeding to death. He is now resting easy in the Atlin Hospital and his condition is described as satistactory.
• March 27, 1936: Otto Miller, well known miner of the Atlin District, was badly crushed in a cave-in on his property on Spruce Creek Friday. The injured man is now progressing favorably and it is believed no bones are broken.
• March 27, 1936: Mrs. A. K. Viaux, proprietor of the White Pass Hotel, returned to open her ostablishment for the season on Saturday after spending the winter months outside.

April

• April 3, 1936: While working a lay on the old McClusky workings on the Baldwin lease near Lower Spruce Creek on Tuesday, Carl Lykkergard, miner of the district, picked up a nugget worth $1300. The nugget was practically composed of virgin gold and weighed 44 ounces, three pennyweights. The ground where the find was made had previously been worked over in past years.
• April 3, 1936: Olof Johnson, miner of this district who froze his feet badly early in February, had all the toes of one foot amputated in the General Hospital here on Saturday when Dr. D'Easum found it necessary to operate.
• April 3, 1936: Five families of Indians arrived at Atlin by dog team on Monday, bringing in a big catch of fur from the Teslin district.

• April 10, 1936: Three residents of Mayo district are dead and Mayo General Hospital is filled to near capacity as a result of one of the worst "flu" epidemics to hit the Silver camp during the past several years. Victims of pneumonia as a direct result of the "flu" during the past eight days include Frank Carscallen, David Fotheringham and George Lundquist.
• April 10, 1936: Dr. A. C. Duncan, Medical Health Officer for Whitehorse District, Tuesday closed the Whitehorse Public School owing to the large number of colds prevalent in town and amongst the school children.
• April 10, 1936: A new 250-ton mill at the Elsa Mine has been completed and began operation on March 1st. At present it is milling ore from the Silver King Mine three miles distant, but later will also mill ore from the Hector Mine, also three miles distant.

• April 17, 1936: There passed peacefully away at the General Hospital on Tuesday morning at 12:15 a.m., a real old timer of the Yukon, Frederick Watt, a resident of Kluane district for many years. Born in St. John, N.B. in the year 1868, deceased was of an adventurous disposition. Coming in over the Dalton Trail by way of Haines about 1900, he followed trapping throughout the Territory until 1906, when he made his residence at Kluane.
• April 17, 1936: The missing Northern Airways plane, with Pilot Murphy and Mechanic Walker the only passengers, returned to Carcross Tuesday night. The plane was reported missing after no word had heen received for several days, but bad flying conditions kept it grounded at Ross River.
• April 17, 1936: George Simmons, popular manager of the Northern Airways, this week added a third plane to his fleet. The new job is a tri-motored Ford transport plane and is licensed to carry 12 passengers. Besides being the second largest airplane operating in Canada the new machine is the only commercial multi-motored plane in Canada today.

• April 24, 1936: A deputation of business men of the town has recommended to Councillor Chas. T. Atherton that the the roads leading to the airport be repaired, with one road for traffic going to the field and one for traffic returning. Repairs to the narrow and excessively steep road immediately back of the airport commonly known as the Puckett Hill Road makes for hazardous driving with traffic both ways.
• April 24, 1936: With the arrival on Wednesday of the big tri-motored Ford J-6, the latest addition to the splendid fleet of planes maintained by the White Pass Air Service, a new step in the progress of air travel in Yukon was ushered in.
• April 24, 1936: Cam Smith, famous song writer, composer, publisher and skipper of the launch Loon, arrived on Tuesday to resume his duties with the company for the season.

May

• May 1, 1936: The mail service snowmobile with T. C. Richards at the helm, pulled into town Wednesday night with three passengers and mail for outside points. Tough going was encountered both ways owing to the terrible condition of the roads and while crossing at Takhini the rear end of the snowmobile broke through the ice and had to be retrieved by the company "cat". Don Murray was a "tourist" on the trip and reports hiking 33 miles to the Pelly for help when the bus broke down.
• May 1, 1936: George Chambers, Whitehorse Champagne mail contractor, had the misfortune to have his truck break through the ice at Takhini last weekend when he attempted to drive from Takhini to the mouth of Little River in order to miss a bad section of the road. Everything was salvaged, however, the truck being pulled out of the river by the use of block and tackle.
• May 1, 1936: Frances Lake, in the Yukon portion of the Liard country, is the scene of much mining activity. T. Mitchell who has some valuable ground there, has a crew of men at work drilling and prospecting and is away to an early start for the season. The Northern Airways transported two keystone drills, all supplies and necessary equipment and crew to the scene.

• May 8, 1936: At the Council meeting in Dawson, it was reported that the Dominion government grant for the Territory for the year is $70,000.
• May 8, 1936: Pat Dalgarno, section worker at Cowley, sustained painful injury to his abdomen on Wednesday morning when a plank, slipping from a flat car which was being pushed by the casey, struck a tie and the other end flipped up, striking the injured aman in the abdomen and throwing him off the casey.
• May 8, 1936: Const. Doug. Betts of the R.C.M.P. detachment here left Saturday for the Summit, where he will be stationed for the summer months.

• May 15, 1936: An ice jam on the Yukon River extends a distance of 35 miles from the mouth of the White River, and has caused extensive destruction. The government telegraph line is severely damaged and out of commission, some parts of the line being under six feet of ice.
• May 15, 1936: Charles Innes, old-time Yukoner of the '98 vintage and a resident of this district for many years, passed peacefully away to his eternal rest on Tuesday at the General Hospital, where he was admitted several days ago. He was born in Ontario in 1874.
• May 15, 1936: A public meeting will he held in the Whitehorse Inn on Saturday evening at 8 p.m. for the purpose of sponsoring the installation of an airplane field at Carmacks. Merchants and all others interested in the development of the Carmacks district are especially requested to attend.

• May 22, 1936: Floods of unprecedented magnitude which caused havoc in the Yukon River Valley from Selwyn to Coffee Creek, a distance of 35 miles, have now subsided and a report was received this week from the stricken area. Read this report and the one from the previous week here.
• May 22, 1936: To the steamer Whitehorse goes the distinction of being the first steamer down river this season, officially opening the river to steamboat navigation for 1936. With Capt. Malcolm Campbell, veteran skipper of the fleet at the helm, the Whitehorse cast off her moorings and steamed down the river channel with a capacity load of freight and 24 passengers aboard.
• May 22, 1936: Further work on the Laforma Group in the Carmacks district has been discontinued by the Yukon Consolidated Gold Corporation. W. H. S. McFarland, General Manager of the company says that, in the opinion of the directors of the company, present developments did not warrant further expenditure on the property.

• May 29, 1936: The daunching of the large scow which has been under construction by Dan Gillis, local carpenter and contractor, took place on Tuesday, the vessel being towed to the river by caterpillar tractor. The scow, which measures 50 feet in length and ten feet six inches in beam, has a carrying capacity of 14 tons and was made for Jacquot Bros., big game guides and merchants of Kluane Lake, for use in transporting freight from Whitehorse to Mendenhall Landing.
• May 29, 1936: The children of the Intermediate and High School classes of Whitehorse School journeyed to Rainbow Lake on Monday morning, the event being the first pienie of the summer. Sailing on the lake was enjoyed by the students as also was the pork and beans and weiners cooked over a fire in regular camp style.
• May 29, 1936: Mr. George Anderson, expert piano tuner, will be in town this week end. Please leave orders for tuning or any piano work at Macpherson's Drug Store.

June

• June 5, 1936: Walter Peterson and sister Alice and Rod Darnell, all of Juneau, were arrivals here on Saturday, bringing with them a small boat powered by an outboard motor. After having seats built into the craft and a capacious "grub box" made by Dan Gillis, the trio left on Tuesday on their trip to Fairbanks.
• June 5, 1936: The Town of Mayo is flooded by high water from the Stewart River and many people are forced to abandon their homes, says a last-minute telegraphic advice just received. Read the entire article here.
• June 5, 1936: Fire which spread from a rubbish heap to the nearby woods behind the George Ryder residence on Friday afternoon last caused the Fire Dept. to he summoned to quell the blaze.

  

• June 12, 1936: Word was received by British Yukon Navigation Co. officials early this morning that the steamer Klondike, crack freight steamer of the B. Y. N. Co. fleet had met with an accident in the Thirty-Mile River six miles below Hootalinqua early this morning while on her way north. Read the entire article here.
• June 12, 1936: By special estimate the following extra amounts have been allowed the Yukon, namely: Hunker-Dominion-Sulphur Road, $25,000.00; Silver King Road, $17,500.00; Dawson-Glacier Road $15,000.00; Landing Fields, 7,500.00; total $65,000.00.
• June 12, 1936: Dr. H. S. Bostock, geologist in charge of the Canadian Geological Survey in Yukon, arrived on Wednesday with his crews to prepare for the season's work. Dr. Bostock's party will go to what is known us the Ogilvie Sheet, comprising the lower portions of the Stewart, White and Indian rivers.

• June 19, 1936: An official report of the foundering of the steamer Klondike states that the ill-fated vessel struck a reef at a point five miles below Hootalinqua about 8:30 a.m. on last Friday, the force of the impact throwing the stern of the vessel against a rock bluff and demolishing the wheel and rudders. Read the entire article here.
• June 19, 1936: On Sunday last the West Dawson ferry was almost on the West side of the river when it struck an eddy and suddenly started to swing around. The cable snapped and struck E. J. Ryan, 19, on the neck just below the ear, killing him almost instantly.
• June 19, 1936: Mrs. E. Warne returned to Log Cabin to resume her duties after a month's vacation, part of which was spent at Mayo during the flood.

• June 26, 1936: Isaac Taylor returned by White Pass plane on Wednesday after a two-week stay at Mayo to direct reconstruction of the firm's warehouse and other property damaged in the flood. Work has been started on a new warm and cold storage warehouse at the rear of the store, and the old warehouse on the river frontage has been dismantled.
• June 26, 1936: George Black, ex-M. P. for Yukon, was an arrival from Vancouver on Wednesday's train. After a short stay renewing old acquaintances here, Mr. Black will leave on Saturday for his home in Dawson and will resume his law practice in the Territory.
• June 26, 1936: O. Wickstrom, well known miner of the Kluane district, has been appointed to the position of Road Foreman for the district. With Carl Brydone and Bill Grant, he has been busy patching up the bad spots in the roads around town. The new two-ton Ford dump truck is proving very satisfactory and Foreman Wickstrom is highly pleased with its performance.

July

• July 3, 1936: After 29 years in business, W. A. Puckett, pioneer merchant of Whitehorse, has sold his hardware store, tinsmith shop and garage to the the Northern Commercial Company, Ltd., the new owners taking over on Wednesday,
• July 3, 1936: The Mayo Indian village was heavily damaged by flooding. All the residents of the village had to flee to the high hill across river, from where they watched the flood current cut away 25 feet of the bank, washing away houses and destroying the church. Read the entire article here.
• July 3, 1936: On Sunday last at the 11 o'clock Morning Service in Christ Church, the Sunday School took part in a Children's Service. Ian Murray and Wilma Lopaschuk led in the responses and read the prayers, while John MacBride read the lessons.

  

• July 10, 1936: The steamer Casca, crack passenger ship of the British Yukon Navigation Co. fleet, struck the old wreck of the steamer Dawson in Rink Rapids about noon today and sank very rapidly about 500 feet below the Rapids. Read the entire article here.
• July 10, 1936: Dan Gillis, local carpenter and contractor, and Boyd Gordon, made a trip to Mendewhall Landing last week end with the launch Ruby, taking a scow load of merchandise for Jacquot Bros. The trip from Whitehorse to Mendenhall Landing was made in 14 hours time.
• July 10, 1936: Two second-hand fire sirens, purchased from the New Westminster, B.C., Fire Dept. for a nominal sum by the Fire Alarm Fund, arrived in good condition last week. It is planned to give these alarms a test and then determine the locality in which they will best serve the town.

• July 17, 1936: Fire of unknown origin broke out on July 13 at 4:30 pm, in the old Scott Hotel at Carcross, and in forty minutes completely demolished the building and School House nearby.
• July 17, 1936: Alaska's famous Sourdough artist, George Don Beymer, arrived here on Wednesday from Atlin, where he has been engaged in sketching and painting scenic views along the White Pass & Yukon Route for the company. For the last few years the hotel has been partly used as a lecture room by Mr. Patsy Henderson, and he lost almost everything in connection With his lectures, including many old relics of the North.
• July 17, 1936: Bayne Beauchamp, lecturer and tour conductor of Berkley, California, and a party of five arrived in town Saturday after an adventuresome trip from Skagway to Whitehorse. The party hiked over the Chilkoot Pass to Bennett, where they built a scow, crossed Lake Bennett and the adjoining lakes, and finally ran Miles VCanyon, Squaw Rapids and Whitehorse Rapids.

• July 24, 1936: Lynn Staples of the Inca Mining Company at Iron Creek and James H. Eastman of the Columbia Development Company of Atlin, have been in town for the past week repairing the Eastman Flying boat that has been in storage here for the last few years. They left with the plane on Monday night for the trip to Atlin.
• July 24, 1936: A recent issue of the Seattle Times announces the death of Tom Chisholm, famous Yukon pioneer who was one of the most colorful figures of the Klondike, where he amassed a fortune operating the Aurora Saloon, known to old-timers as the "Bucket of Blood." Chisholm died in a hospital at McLellan, Alberta, at the advanced age of 92 years.
• July 24, 1936: In a lengthy list of properties to be sold for unpaid taxes, most belong to the British Yukon Land Company, with $74.10 owing on each of them.

• July 31, 1936: The Yukon Rose, launch operated by Taylor & Drury Ltd. in freighting supplies to their various stores and posts, is now on the Stewart River run for the British Yukon Navigation Co. and will help to transport the large freight consignments to the silver camp. The Rose will help the company considerably, handicapped as they are through the loss of their two crack steamers.
• July 31, 1936: A quiet wedding was observed in Christ Church on Wednesday afternoon, when Lily Jackson of Teslin became the bride of Tom Smith, R.C.M.P. guide of the Teslin district.
• July 31, 1936: The Buchanan party from Detroit, Michigan, making their annual tour of Yukon and Alaska, arrived in town on the train Wednesday from Carcross after spending a few days in Atlin. The party consisted of 65, including boys and girls from the ages of nine to 18 and a few adults. They have left by train for Skagway enroute to their homes in the United States and Eastern Canada.

August

• August 7, 1936: Officers and enlisted men from Chilkoot Barracks continued their search today for the bodies of Sergeant Oliver Lawliss, his son Dean, and Sergt. Paul McWain, believed drowned in a motorboat tragedy at Dysanki Inlet Sunday night. Read the entire article here.
• August 7, 1936: Fred Webber, deck-hand on the steamer Whitehorse, suffered a painful injury when his leg was broken while he was engaged with the crew in lining the steamer through Hell's Gate on Monday morning. We have reproduced this and several other articles from this issue - see them here.
• August 7, 1936: The finishing touches are being given to the new shovel-nosed tunnel boat built for the British Yukon Navigation Co. by Dan Gillis, local builder and contractor. Of sturdy construction, the boat is well finished in every detail.

• August 14, 1936: Appropriately named "The Atlin Nugget," the first issue of Atlin's new weekly newspaper came out on Saturday last. A. E. Windle, former publisher of Burns Lake B.C., is the owner and editor.
• August 14, 1936: Word was received here last Saturday of the finding of the body of Joe Sheldon, aged trapper and prospector of the Territory, at Little Atlin, 12 miles from Tagish. The body, which appeared to be badly mutilated by animals, was found a short distance from the tent occupied by the deceased.
• August 14, 1936: A work party, organized by J. B. Watson, did good work yesterday evening in leveling off the lower road leading to Ice Lake. The use of the new government truck aided much, two loads of gravel being hauled and the deep ruts in the swamp portion of the road were filled in.

• August 21, 1936: A quiet marriage was solemnized in Christ Church on Wednesday evening when Miss Winona Spence became the bride of Dr. Allen C. Duncan. Dr. Duncan is Medical Superintendent of Whitehorse Hospital and district, while Mrs. Duncan is well known here and in Mayo, having served on the staff of Mayo General Hospital.
• August 21, 1936: History was made this year when three Carcross residents wrote examinations in music under the auspices of the Toronto Conservatory of Music. The three are a teacher, a supervisor and a pupil at Chooutla Indian Residential School.
• August 21, 1936: On Friday evening last a work party, consisting of J. R. Gaudin, J. Rose, G. Walker, J. Carlson and C. Groundwater, did much in putting the Carcross road in better shape. Various deep ruts were filled in in many places and the curve on Canyon Hill banked on the outside to permit a fair amount of speed when making the hill.

• August 28, 1936: Unless developments over the next few months insure a more profitable operation in 1937, the Whitehorse & Yukon Route will not open the Atlin Inn nor will they operate the Taku tramway or launch Tarahne.
• August 28, 1936: Jack Innis, popular young deckhand on the Tarahne, fell off the upper deck and was drowned. Read the entire article here.
• August 28, 1936: Convinced that the Carmacks area will eventually become a good camp, Jack "Hardrock" MacDonald returned to Mayo recently after several weeks spent at Carmacks, says the Mayo Miner.

September

• September 4, 1936: Closing a particularly brilliant medical career, death came to Dr. H. J. Nunn, M.M., M.D., L.M.C.C., medical superintendent of Dawson district, on Sunday evening last. Death of the prominent surgeon was caused by complications following inflammation of the gall bladder.
• September 4, 1936: Pilot Harry Hayter and Mechanic Jack Brown arrived on Saturday morning in a Mackenzie Air Service plane from Edmonton, Alberta, enroute to Dawson. Pilot Hayter was able to keep in touch with the Whitehorse and Edmonton radio stations by means of his radio telephones, with which his plane is equipped.
• September 4, 1936: Reports on what many former Whitehorse residents are doing in Dawson were published: Bud Harbottle; Norman Murray; Chuck Caddy; Mrs. Dalton Farr; F. N. Gisborne; Jack Weise; Mrs. A. E. Yeulet; Ted and Ray Richards; Norman Ryder; and Mrs. & Mrs. William Thomson.

• September 11, 1936:Starting a short trip down the Yukon River in a canoe at 6 p.m. Monday, Constable J. P. Hartnett, R. C. M. P. officer at Carmacks, and A. R. Hayes, government telegraph operator at that point, had only traveled a short distance when, without warning, the canoe capsized. throwing both men into the swiftly running water. Cst. Hartnett was drowned. Read the entire article here.
• September 11, 1936: Bad weather was experienced by Pilot Bill Knox and Operator Bob Gleason of the PAA, who landed their Fairchild plane on the river Monday enroute to Juneau from Fairbanks. Bad weather was experienced most of the way and especially over the White Pass Summit.
• September 11, 1936: Reviving the thrills and adventures of the days of '98, a trip through Miles Canyon and Whitehorse Rapids was experienced yesterday by Mrs. Elizabeth Fields, noted writer of New York who is visiting the Yukon on a combined pleasure trip and to gather material for her writings. Accompanying her on the thrilling boat ride were Lynn Staples, Tom Watson and Bob Jones.

• September 18, 1936: Fast work is being done by the dock gang in clearing a site for a hangar for the White Pass planes, to be built this Fall. The new addition to the Airport will be a big improvement and will prove its usefullness during the winter months.
• September 18, 1936: Mrs. Annie M. McLennan, aged 80, died on Tuesday, September 1st at her home in Burnaby, B.C. The late Mrs. McLennan arrived in Whitehorse with her family to join her husband, in 1903. She lived here many years, and during that time was very active in patriotic work, especially during the war years. Mrs. MeLennan was a Charter Member of Yukon Chapter, I.O.D.E.
• September 18, 1936: The White Pass & Yukon Route have added to the number of cars in town with the addition of a large new bus, which is to be used between the town and the airport for conveying plane passengers and freight.

• September 25, 1936: The White Pass Ford plane, with Vern Bookwalter the pilot and Merritt Boyle mechanic, arrived from Skagway on Saturday. While passing over the Summit, the ashes of L. McAlister, Canadian Customs and Immigration examiner who passed away in Seattle a short time ago, were scattered over the Summit in accordance with the last wishes of the deceased.
• September 25, 1936: Due to an outbreak of scarletina [scarlet fever], the Whitehorse Public School was ordered closed for a period of ten to twelve days by Dr. E. E. Hildebrand, Medical Health Officer for Whitehorse district.
• September 25, 1936: Messrs. Macauley and Vass, well known miners of the Territory, report the indications in the Shorty Creek area very favorable. Staking has been active on the Creek this year, but a large portion of the available ground has been blanketed by Indians.

October

• October 2, 1936: Dr. H. S. Bostock, geologist in charge of the government survey in Yukon and his survey party arrived in on the steamer Whitehorse Tuesday at the completion of work for this season. They left today for connection with the Princess Louise at Skagway.
• October 2, 1936: School will be resumed Monday, there being no fresh outbreak of Scarletina.
• October 2, 1936: H. E. Myers, old-timer of the Dawson district, passed through town this week enroute to Vancouver after spending the summer in his old stamping grounds. He is engaged in developing a fueless engine, and may spend the winter putting the finishing touches to a working model.

• October 9, 1936: There is no October 9 issue in the archives.

• October 16, 1936: A four-year search for a missing trapper was concluded recently with the finding of the remains of Alfred Christianson, trapper and prospector of the Carmacks district. Read the entire article here.
• October 16, 1936: The boys' girls and men's basket ball teams, which were to leave this morning for Skagway for a series of games in that town, were unable to make the trip owing to slides on the railway caused by the heavy rains recently.
• October 16, 1936: Word was received by mail last night from Donald Mackay, Alaska Steamship Co. agent at Skagway, that owing to the labor situation on the Pacific Coast, the company schedule has been disrputed and scheduled sailings of the S.S. Kenai have not been inaugurated as planned. The S.S. Yukon, we are advised, sails from Skagway today. The S.S. Northwestern will sail south from Skagway on October 22.

• October 23, 1936: Another splendid addition to the Airport has been made by the installing of a gasoline pump with a 500 gallon tank for refueling the planes by the Northern Commercial Co. Ltd.
• October 23, 1936: Battered for three days by torrential rains, the side of Mt. Roberts gave away at 8:15 am. Friday last and sent a mass of mud and mighty timbers crashing down to slopes to pause 200 feet from Juneau's downtown business center. Read the entire article here.
• October 23, 1936: Lt.-Col Philip C. H. Primrose of Edmonton, whose appointment as lieutenant-governor of Alberta was announced recently in Ottawa by Prime Minister Mackenzie King will be the fifth person to hold that office. Mr. Primrose was educated at the Royal Military College, Kingston, Ont. Enlisting in the Royal North West Mounted Police in 1885, he served at Macleod, Alta. Lethbridge, Alta. Dawson City and Whitehorse, Yukon, where he was Inspector, and Regina before leaving the force in 1915.

• October 30, 1936: The newspaper and job printing plant of the Atlin Nugget was totally destroyed by fire on Friday last, October 23rd. The fire started at 3 a.m. when an oil lamp fell against the book press and broke. This is understood to be the second time editor-owner A. E. Windle has been burned out, the newspaper plant which he operated at Burns Lake, B.C. suffering a similar disaster.
• October 30, 1936: Wolves are becoming a dangerous menace to Yukon. Many sourdoughs and trappers of this district are of the opinion that the government should take immediate steps to check the increasing inroads of wolves in the Mayo area. Either a bounty should be put on the hides or permission granted to use poison bait, they aver.
• October 30, 1936: Albert F. Zipf, 62 years old, who spent twenty-five years in the North and was at one time traffic manager of the White Pass & Yukon Route, died in San Francisco recently.

November

• November 6, 1936: Const. D. A. Dunlop in charge of the Police Post at Champagne arrived in last Friday afternoon with Harton Kane, native of Champagne, who was in a critical condition following a shooting affray in which he was shot in the region of the stomach.
• November 6, 1936: Tom Bee, well known mining man of the Carmacks district, has tentative plans for installing a ten-ton pilot mill on one of the properties and expects to have it in operation by the first of May.
• November 6, 1936: Due to the maritime unions calling a coast-wide strike including operations in Alaska, the four steamship companies supplying Alaska have shut down operations. Affected are the ships of the Alaska Steamship Co., Northland Transportation Co., Alaska Transportation Co., and Santa Ana Transportation Co.

• November 13, 1936: The sensational re-capture of Paddy Duncan in Champagne by Frank Smith and his son was reported.
• November 13, 1936: At a meeting held in the N.S.A.A. Hall on Tuesday evening the Whitehorse Badminton Association was formed, and R. Greenslade was elected president.A fee of $1.50 per month will be charged for membership. The badminton court will be open for play on Tuesday and Friday nights in the hall.
• November 13, 1936: The sound of the hammer amd saw have been heard for some time around the Northern Commercial Co. store in recent weeks and great improvements have been made in the various departments. A fully equipped garage for servicing cars has been added, complete with a pit for ease of access to a car's innards."

• November 20, 1936: Edward Dorrance, veteran flier of Alaska and the Yukon, passed away in St. Mary's Hospital in Dawson Tuesday morming from injuries received in the crash of his plane at Jack Wade Creek on Monday aftemoon. According to observers of the take-off, Dorrance was about 100 feet from the ground when his plane plummeted to earth, completely demolishing the machine and fatally injuring the pilot. There were no passengers.
• November 20, 1936: The last stronghold of the sled dog - the trapline - is giving way to the gasoline motor, according to the Anchorage Times. In a "Super Snowbird" which will consist of a model A Ford car with skis mounted on its front wheels and a caterpillar tread on the rear ones, Bob Mathison and his brother Charlie will travel their trapline this winter in the Chickaloon River district.
• November 20, 1936: Difficulty in taking off owing to the deep snow on the Dawson air field resulted in a mishap to the Fairchild plane of the White Pass fleet piloted by Everett Wasson on Monday. Parts have been ordered to repair the aircraft.

• November 27, 1936: Fifteen thousand jobless and homeless youths will be placed at work on farms and forests in western Canada for the winter months under the new "work or starve" winter relief scheme, Minister of Labour Rogers announced today.
• November 27, 1936: A hockey squad of international composition will leave Fairbanks about December 1 to play a series of games in the United States and Canada on the first sports invasion from the Northland in many years. The squad will consist of men who played for Dawson and for the University of Alaska at the ice carnival last spring.
• November 27, 1936: One of the gravest disasters in Juneau occurred on Sunday last when a huge landslide came sweeping down from Mt. Roberts, carrying away two apartment houses and several smaller dwellings in its path. Two bodies recovered on Wednesday brought the number found to nine while there is at least six more missing.

December

• December 4, 1936: Paddy Duncan, charged with the murder of Harton Kane at Champagne, has been sentenced to hang on March 23, 1937. Read several articles about this case here.
• December 4, 1936: Frank Kardanoff, proprietor of the White Pass Barber Shop and Beer Parlor, has sold out his interests to Mrs. A. K. Viaux and is entering into partnership with his cousin, S. Gazloff of Juneau, who has a taxi and liquor store business in that city.
• December 4, 1936: Pilot Brennan, flying a Bellanca of the Pollock Airways fleet between Fairbanks and Whitehorse on Monday, ran into a severe snow storm near Champagne and was forced to land on a meadow near that point. His passengers were brought to town by G. Chambers, arriving early Tuesday in time for connection with the south-bound train. Brennan was able to take off again and arrived here about the same time as his passengers on the truck.

• December 11, 1936: All the world was aghast yesterday when the news flashed to the four corners of the earth that Edward, King of All England, had renounced his throne to clear the way for his marriage to Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson. The Duke of York will ascend the throne and it is expected his title will be King Albert I, although there is a possibility it may be King George VI. The Duchess of York, although a Scottish commoner, will be Queen of England.
• December 11, 1936: Clad in parkas and furry coats of denizens of the North, a band of rangy lads somewhat startled Vancouver citizens when they landed there after a journey of 2000 miles by plane, train and boat. They are a group of youngsters who have named themselves the "Polar Bears" and whose big ambition is to play a lot of hockey.
• December 11, 1936: The White Pass tri-motor made a trip to Carmacks Monday and picked up Pilot Bookwalter and his eight passengers who had been forced to land on account of engine trouble. Pilot Bookwalter left on Tuesday's train for Skagway and will return with and install a new motor in the disabled plane.

• December 18, 1936: Host at the second of a series of wild game dinners arranged by him, Capt. J. B. Worley, a former member of the police force at Whitehorse and now head of the J. B. Worley Detective Service at Los Angeles, entertained a party of 36 recently. Mrs. Worley, who teams with her husband in many of their hunting expeditions, assisted in the receiving.
• December 18, 1936: T. C. "Rich" Richards and Slim Keobke of the Klondike Airways, left yesterday morning for Yukon Crossing where they will repair one of the company trucks which had a break-down near the Crossing.
• December 18, 1936: In the third week of December there is only a little snow and the thermometer is above zero. With plenty of sunshine every day and the absence of the north winds, many days have already been cut off the winter season for this year. Whitehorse thus far has suffered only one short cold snap, but now that spring appears to have come, we have forgotten all about it.

• December 25, 1936: The new White Pass Fairchild plane arrived in on Sunday and was moved to the company hangar on Tuesday on sleighs, the Klondike Airways caterpillar doing the hauling. The new addition to the fleet will be assembled immediately and will be used on the Whitehorse-Mayo-Dawson run.
• December 25, 1936: Organized opposition to any move aimed at granting a franchise to Orientals in Canada was set up at Victoria, B.C., by representatives from nine public organizations with a membership running into several thousand.
• December 25, 1936: Paddy Page, well known Chief Steward of the B.Y. N. fleet, returned from a holiday trip to the East on Sunday's train and left Monday morning on the stage for Braeburn, where he will spend the balance of the winter in charge of the roadhouse for Klondike Airways.

1937

January

• January 1, 1937: Seepage caused by the height of the river owing to an ice jam four or five miles below town, is still causing no end of trouble to local residents. Practically every store on Front Street and several homes on the streets behind have water in their basements, which necessitates the installation of pumps in order to keep furnaces burning and merchandise dry.
• January 1, 1937: Fraser Watson, of the Customs staff, arrived in town last week by White Pass plane to spend the Christmas week-end at home with his parents. It being necessary to be in Carcross before a train arrival and there being no method of transportation, Fraser mushed the 40-odd miles in wind and heavy snow, leaving here Sunday evening at 7 p.m. and arriving at Carcross at noon Monday.
• January 1, 1937: Freddie Cederberg, son of F. Cederberg, station agent at Carcross for the White Pass and Yukon Route, sustained a broken wrist late Wednesday afternoon while sleighing, and getting him to Whitehorse for medical attention proved to be a challenge. Read the entire article here.

• January 8, 1937: A record for "cat" drivers to aim at was made by Norman Ryder and Louis Moi, former residents of this town, who arrived from Dawson on Thursday last, four days after leaving Dawson. They are employed hy Klondike Airways. the winter mail contractors. They were transporting the fuselage of the White Pass Fairchild plane here for repairs, and wanted to be here for the New Year's dance.
• January 8, 1937: Assembling of the new White Pass Fairchild plane, which arrived from the East recently, was completed this week and the crack machine was put through her final testing on Monday by Everett Wasson, crack Yukon pilot. The plane, the very latest in modern designing, zoomed and dived over the town and went through her paces in grand style.
• January 8, 1937: A report on the prospecting possibilities of Teslin, Quiet Lake and Big Salmon Districts, by H. S. Bostock of the Geological Survey, was published. Read the report in its original form here.

• January 15, 1937: Bob Randall, Chief Pilot of Northern Airways Ltd. who was missing for several days, crashed at Francis Lake. Manager George Simmons began a search for him, and discovered the wrecked Fokker plane, which had apparently hit a hidden obstruction on the ice. The undercarriage and one wing of the machine were badly damaged, but Pilot Randall was unhurt.
• January 15, 1937: Residents of Burwash Landing received their Christmas mail ou Sunday last, the PAA plane delivering the welcome letters and parcels while enroute to Fairbanks. It was the first mail received at that point for over three months.
• January 15, 1937: Atlin's production of placer gold during the past season is estimated at $410,000, according to H. F. Glassey, gold commissioner. It is estimated also that during the season hundreds of men were engaged on 162 operations, ranging from the large ones down to two-man developments. Read the entire article here.

• January 22, 1937: Reports from Tokyo say gold bullion dealers are being rushed by people selling rings, watches and other trinkets to profit by the rise of the price of the yellow metal to the highest to be recorded [$34.79 on the Montreal market].
• January 22, 1937: The sad news of the passing of Horst William Otto, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. William Otto of Cowley, was received here Monday and came as a distinct shock to the community. Read the entire article here.
• January 22, 1937: S. Keay, deck-hand on the steamer Klondike who has been employed by A. R. Le Page cutting wood, arrived in on the mail stage last night and left this morning for Vancouver, where he will take his mate's examinations.

• January 29, 1937: The PAA "Electra" plane, with Joe Crossan piloting and seven passengers aboard, ran into a terrific snowstorm Friday while flying here from Fairbanks and was forced to stay overnight on Aishihik Lake. Crossan arrived in early Saturday morning and stated there was no difficulty in landing or in taking off the lake.
• January 29, 1937: Mrs. T. A. Storey is starting a new industry at Sandwick, Vancouver Island - a mink farm. About 100 mink have been shipped from the North with the loss of only one animal in transit. Mrs. Storey intends operating the farm with her husband. who is on a year's leave of absence from his duties as postmaster at Carcross.
• January 29, 1937: Mrs. George Black will sponsor a resolution in the House of Commons urging the Government to coin 1,000,000 silver dollars as a memento of the coronation of King George VI. She believes the coins will be kept as souvenirs, and the mining of such a large issue would prove of immense aid to the silver-mining industry of Canada.

February

• February 5, 1937: Pilot Everett Wasson left on Sunday for Prince George in the White Pass Fairchild. There he will pick up Livingstone Wernecke and Pilot Chas. Gropstis, who cracked up the recently acquired Bellanca in a forced landing near Prince George when they attempted to land in soft snow, with the plane on wheels. The machine, formerly owned by Wallace Beery, famed screen star, was badly damaged but can be repaired.
• February 5, 1937: That Yukon Territory badly needs the return of bounties on wolves and coyotes if they are to save valuable furbearing animals from extermination was the statement made by Eugene Jacquot, merchant and fur dealer of Kluane Lake, who arrived in last week.
• February 5, 1937: Pilot Chet Brown arrived in from Fairbanks on Sunday in a tri-motor Ford with ten passengers. The plane left on Monday enroute to Seattle via Prince George.

• February 12, 1937: The S.S. Yukon arrived at Skagway last night with a large consignment of foodstuffs for local merchants. Seven hundred tons of freight were discharged at Juneau. The Yukon is the first American vessel to arrive here since settlement of the maritime strike.
• February 12, 1937: The influenza epidemic has reached a serious stage in town, with many residents being laid up with the malady. While the majorite of the sufferers have been confined to their homes, several were admitted to the General Hospital for treatment, including Rev. Gordon Cross and White Pass Pilot Vernon Bookwalter.
• February 12, 1937: News of the recent passing of Mrs. Neil Miller, formerly Mary Gillis McDonald, was received by mail on Wednesday. Mrs. Miller would have been 24 years old at her next birthday. She leaves a little son, Ray. She was raised in Whitehorse, where she received her early schooling, later attending school in Ketchikan.

• February 19, 1937: Funeral serviees were held Wednesday afternoon for Edward Davidson Wilson, who passed away Monday morning at the Whitehorse General Hospital from bronchial pneumonia brought on by influenza. Read the entire article here.
• February 19, 1937: That the "Caterpillar" is fast proving its adaptibility to the North is again shown by the purchase of three new models by local firms. Read the entire article here.
• February 19, 1937: A crew composed to H. Perchie, J. McLean, P. Pilliner and N. Murray Jr. left on today's train for Pennington to cut the summer's supply of ice for the B. Y. N. Co. Andy Knutson, section foreman at Pennington, will be in charge of the work.

• February 26, 1937: Captain J. E. Hoggan, well known skipper of the B.Y.N. fleet for many years, died in the Mayo Hospital on February 15. Born in Calcutta, India, 73 years ago, he took to the seas when he was 14, and came to the Yukon during the gold rush days in '97.
• February 26, 1937: Twelve tons of machinery and equipment to be installed on the Brown Fairclough property of the Mt. Freegold Yukon Mines Ltd. reached Skagway on Friday last, arriving here on Tuesday's train. Included in the shipment are a 15-ton pilot mill and crusher; a 22 horse power diesel engine; a two-and-a-half ton Cletrac tractor and a small sawmill.
• February 26, 1937: Advices from Carcross state that repairs on the two damaged Fokker planes of the Northern Airways fleet are nearly completed, and the first of the jobs is expected to a make a trip to the North this week-end. A crew of five expert aircraft mechanics were sent in to repair the planes by the insurance company.

March

• March 5, 1937: The death sentence passed on Paddy Duncan, convicted slayer of Harton Kane in a native drunken brawl at Champagne last Fall, has been commuted to life imprisonment by His Excellency the Governor General in Council. Duncan was sentenced to hang March 23rd.
• March 5, 1937: Capt. Lyman Black and Flight Lieut. Robert Minnes, both attached to the Royal Canadian Air Force station at Trenton, were killed near Maitland Saturday when the auto in which they were travelling left the highway and crashed into a tree. Capt. Black, a son of Mrs. George Black, Conservative Member for the Yukon, was instantly killed while Lieut. Minnes died while being conveyed to a hospital. They were both enroute to Ottawa to visit their wives.
• March 5, 1937: At a public meeting about child welfare on Saturday last, Dr. E. E. Hildebrand, M.H.O. for the district, drew attention to the fact that the majority of children were not inoculated or vaccinated against diphtheria or small pox, and pointed out that both these diseases are preventable.

• March 12, 1937: A four-mile-to-the-inch colored geological map of the Laberge Area, showing geological boundaries, topography, roads, trails and other features, has been issued by the Geological Survey. The map is based on investigations made in recent years by W. E. Cockfield, H. S. Bostock and E. J. Lees.
• March 12, 1937: It has heen brought to our notice that many children in the community are becoming addicted to the tobacco habit, and is said that girls and boys of teen age and even younger are smoking without their parents' knowledge. Storekeepers are going to enforce the law which forbids sale of tobaccos to children under the age of sixteen.
• March 12, 1937: At the meeting last Friday night the shuttlecock enthusiasts unanimously decided to hold a Weiner Roast across the River on Friday (tonight). Mrs. Rice, Miss Taylor, Geoff Bidlake and Don. Dickson were appointed as the Dog Committee and will be in charge of the eats.

• March 19, 1937: A death which cast a shadow of sorrow throughout the Yukon and the Arctic occurred on Monday, March 8 in Mayo General Hospital, when Rev. John Martin, highly-esteemed Indian leader and preacher, succumbed to pneumonia, chronicles the Mayo Miner. The late Rev. Martin was one of the most outstanding Indian leaders the Northland has ever known. He was born at Fort McPherson and was aged 54.
• March 19, 1937: While enroute from Atlin to Carcross on the Northern Airways freight stage, Albert Chenard, a stranger here, attempted to set fire to the roadhouse at Moose Arm, where the stage had stopped for a brief halt. The demented man also attempted to commit suicide, gashing himself with a butcher knife. He was subdued by Northern Airways employees, who kept him under subjection until the arrival of the stage in Carcross at noon yesterday, when he was turned over to Const. W. Herron of the RCMP.
• March 19, 1937: Word was received yesterday of the passing of H. O. Lokken, one of the real early day ploneers of the Yukon, after am emergeney operation on Wednesday. The late Mr. Lokken had only been ill for a short time, leaving here not long ago for treatment in Vancouver.

• March 26, 1937: Rumors current the past few days state that Jim Boss, Chief of the Yukon Indians, is planning to attend the coronation in England in May. Questioned about it, Chief Jim said that while nothing was definite, he sure would like to go to the "big jamboree" and pay respects to King George from his people.
• March 26, 1937: G. A. Jeckell, Controller of the Yukon Territory, arrived back in the Yukon on Saturday after a six month absence outside on a combined business and pleasure trip. He was accompanied by Mrs. Jeckell.
• March 26, 1937: The White Pass Ford CF-AZB with Pilots Holland and Rice made two trips to Dawson on Sunday with ten-passenger loads each time. Returning on Monday, a consignment of freight was taken to the northern metropolis.

April

• April 2, 1937: A new era in Yukon's mining industry was ushered in on Monday, when Everett Wasson, piloting the White Pass Fairchild, winged his way to two separate districts, Livingston Creek and Dezadeash, in three flights with miners and their equipment.
• April 2, 1937: The Easter dance held by the Whitehorse Badminton Club in the N. S. A. A. Hall on Monday evening proved to be one of the gala events of the Easter season. Except for a brief halt for refreshments at midnight, the large crowd of carefree dancers were kept on their toes by the excellent musie rendered by Messrs. Sewell, Cross and Todd at the piano, and Messrs. Caddy, Bruce Watson and Dixon at the drums.
• April 2, 1937: H. G. Macpherson, pioneer druggist of Whitehorse, and Mrs. Macpherson, left for the East on Tuesday to be present at the graduation of their eldest son Grant, who is in his final year in chemical engineering at Toronto University.

• April 9, 1937: Several cases of petty thievery have been reported in town lately, and residents are warned to lock their doors at nights, and whenever they leave.
• April 9, 1937: The need for a more adequate mail service to the outlying districts in Yukon is more increasingly apparent each year. Although there is a great deal more activity in mining throughout the Territory of late years, the mail service has not kept pace with the progress. Two districts which badly need a mail delivery of some kind are Burwash and Livingston Creek.
• April 9, 1937: A strict quarantine is being maintained near Bethel due to an infantile paralysis [polio] epidemic which has already caused seven deaths. Guards stationed at all approaches toward Tundra, fifty miles from Bethel, are turning back all travelers from the quarantined city. Bethel is closed to all entrants and the schools have been dismissed as a preventative measure to halt the epidemic.

• April 16, 1937: With the present session of Parliament over, Mrs. George Black, Conservative member for the Yukon, is going to holiday in the south-west for a month before returning to her home in Dawson.
• April 16, 1937: W. J. Cletheroe, well known miner of Livingston Creek, who has been paving a visit to town these past few days, returned to his property by dog team this week. Mr. Cletheroe had his supplies for the summer delivered by plane. He stated everyone in the district is preparing for one of the best seasons in many years.
• April 16, 1937: Pupils of the Whitehorse Public School have organized a body known as the Mosquito Eradication Association, with the sole aim of exterminating as many of those summer pests, the mosquito, as possible. It is planned to oil the many potholes and swamps surrounding the town within a radius of two miles, and over 200 gallons of oil have already been donated by local transportation companies.

• April 23, 1937: W. A. Puckett, pioneer resident of Whitehorse who for many years operated the hardware store, returned on Tuesday from his first trip outside in 27 years. Looking hale and hearty again, Mr. Puckett told of the many changes in the modern outside world of today as compared to 27 years ago,
• April 23, 1937: The new motion picture building, work on which was started last week, is now assuming shape in record time. Length of the structure is 50 feet, with a depth of 28 feet. W. G. Chantler, pioneer builder and contractor of Whitehorse, has the contract for the erection of the building and has a crew of about seven men at work.
• April 23, 1937: According to advices received from Ottawa, there will be four or five government survey parties in the Yukon this year. The personnel of the survey parties, under the supervision of Dr. H. S. Bostock, will arrive in Whitehorse on May 30th.

• April 30, 1937: Announcement of the sale of the Whitehorse Inn and City Cafe was made this week by Messrs. Ken and Mack Yoshida, the former owners. T. C. Richards, prominent businessman of Whitehorse, is the purchaser. Messrs. Yoshida, who have spent the past 17 years in business in Whitehorse, will leave on May 9th enroute to their native land, Japan, and will make their future residence in Tokyo, where they plan on going into business together.
• April 30, 1937: Premier T. D. Pattullo announced on April 26th that the Yukon Territory is to become a part of British Columbia. Negotiations toward the amalgamation of British Columbia and the Yukon have been quietly proceeding by the Dominion and Provincial governments for some time and the basis of the agreement for the merger has finally been reached, it is said.
• April 30, 1937: A Whitehorse central sports committee has been formed. This system is followed in several small towns throughout the country, including Alaska. It is found to be a very suceessful procedure and favorable to every town.

May

• May 7, 1937: Hon. J. C. Elliot, Postmaster General, recently signed a contract with the United Air Transport Ltd. of Edmonton for a weekly mail service from Edmonton to Whitehorse. The route of the new service will be by way of Peace River, Fort Nelson and Lower Post to Whitehorse, a total distance of 950 miles.
• May 7, 1937: Souvenirs of the Coronation for the Yukon's school children, which were rushed westward by air mail, have been received here by the I.O.D.E. These Coronation emblems are little golden crowns with streamers of red, white and blue attached. On May 12, the date of King George's crowning, one will be given to each child at Coronation ceremonies in the schools.
• May 7, 1937: The condition of James Baker, former engineer at the Atlin Inn who has been a patient in the General Hospital this past week with pneumonia, is reported as quite serious and it is understood a wire has been sent for his relatives.

• May 14, 1937: Charlie and Tom Rendall, well known boys employed by the Yukon Consolidated, were visitors in town this week on their return to Dawson after spending the winter outside. In place of traveling to Dawson by plane, this year they chose to make the trip by small boat down the river, leaving last night in order to be at Lake LaBerge in time to cross early this morning.
• May 14, 1937: The Coronation of Their Majesties King George VI and Queen Elizabeth was celebrated "well and truly" in Whitehorse. On the Tuesday night preceding the Coronation, a fine fireworks display lasting for three-quarters of an hour was enjoyed by the townspeople. Const. D. Williams and his assistants deserve praise for this feature.
• May 14, 1937: With sirens shrieking, bells ringing madly and amid great local excitement, the Dawson ice moved out at 11:48 in the morning of May 10th. The break-up this year was very tame and quiet and there was nothing sensational as in other years.

• May 21, 1937: A list of crew members of the British Yukon Navigation Co. steamers for the coming season was published as the main feature on the front page. Included are the Whitehorse, Aksala, and Yukon, while the crew of the Nasutlin will also work the Casca and the crew of the Keno will also work the Klondike.
• May 21, 1937: W. A. Puckett, pioneer businessman of Whitehorse who returned from California recently, left on Sunday for Vancouver. Mr. Puckett, whose sight is seriously impaired by cataracts, will undergo an operation for their removal very shortly.
• May 21, 1937: J. O. Williams, Collector of Customs at Dawson and former resident of Whitehorse, arrived in from Dawson by plane this week to measure the tonnage and dimensions of the British Yukon Navigation Co. steamers. In conjunction with the Collectorship at Dawson, Joe is Registrar of shipping, etc., which necessitated the trip.

• May 28, 1937: Navigation on the Yukon River for the season officially opened on Sunday with the departure of the steamer Nasutlin at 9 a.m. and the S.S. Whitehorse at 1:30 p.m. Passage through Lake LaBerge, which was still ice-bound, was completed on Wednesday evening.
• May 28, 1937: On Tuesday afternoon, the new British Yukon Navigation Co. steamer S. S. Klondike was launched at the Whitehorse Shipyards. With a total length of 210 feet and a 42-foot beam, the spacious vessel will accomodate 32 passengers besides her crew. She also has a large freight deck and is conceded to be one of the most up-to-date steamboats in operation.
• May 28, 1937: The death occurred in the Whitehorse General Hospital on Saturday, May 22, of Mrs. Robert Earl, aged 68, after a lengthy illness. Read the entire article here.

June

• June 4, 1937: Dan Gillis, local builder and contractor, returned from Carcross last night after completing construction of a store for J. J. Elliott, to be operated by Miss Evelyn Elliot in in conjunction with The Ivory Shop here.
• June 4, 1937: Mrs. Kate Rockwell Matson, known to many old-timers as "Klondike Kate," was a visitor in town this week enroute to Dawson to spend the summer with her husband, well known miner of that district.
• June 4, 1937: On June 1st, by a tragic accident on the Yukon River cable ferry, Dawson lost one of its finest and most respected citizens in the drowning of Amede Routhier, early-day pioneer and businessman of this district. Read the entire article here.

• June 11, 1937: The town's new theatre, built by J. R. Alguire, pioneer resident and businessman of Whitehorse, opened officially on Saturday night with the premiere showing of the film "Desire," starring Gary Cooper and Marlene Dietrich, with a fine supporting cast of characters. Read the entire article here.
• June 11, 1937: The death occurred aboard the S.S. Keno on Tuesday evening, of Mrs. J. Lelievre, well known Dawson woman. The deceased was enroute outside to obtain medical treatment and was accompanied by her son, Charles. We have a page about Clara Lelievre that includes this article.
• June 11, 1937: A forest fire of unknown origin, which started near McIntyre Creek, four miles from town, early Monday morning and caused grave apprehension around the town, was brought under control on the southern area Wednesday afternoon. Read the entire article here.

• June 18, 1937: A tragic fatality occurred on Tuesday afternoon when Alan Gordon, two-year-old son of Thos. Gordon, native section worker of the White Pass & Yukon Route, was drowned in the treacherous waters of the fast-running Yukon River. Read the entire article here.
• June 18, 1937: Specially built for H. W. Wheeler, president and general manager of the White Pass & Yukon Route, a new Plymouth sedan arrived in town on Wednesday night's train. The speedy car is fitted with large, high wheels to ensure the maximum of clearance on deeply rutted roads.
• June 18, 1937: Road repairs on the Canyon Scenic Road are now being completed by the government road crew and it is expected that this beautiful drive will again be open for traffic by the weekend. Read the entire article here.

• June 25, 1937: Senator Schwellenbach of Washington and Delegate Anthony Dimond of Alaska envision making part of B. C. and the Yukon, and adjoining Alaska, into an international park, and Skagway a free port. President Roosevelt is said to be receptive to the idea. It would be the world's first such international park.
• June 25, 1937: Paul L. Eggert, well known pioneer of Atlin, died last Saturday at the age of 55 years. His passing came as a great shock to the camp as he was his usual cheery self on Friday. Mr. Eggert came to Atlin in 1899 and for the past 15 years operated the jewelry store formerly owned by his father.
• June 25, 1937: The first plane of the Edmonton Air Transport arrived in on Monday evening, alighting on the river. Piloted by Ted Fields and with Ralph Marshall the co-pilot, the big tloat-equipped tri-motored Ford made the trip here as a test flight of the route of the Edmonton to Whitehorse mail service which is scheduled to start July 5th.

July

• July 2, 1937: Charles Lambert, a representative of the Consolidated Press and resident of Prince Rupert, was drowned on the evening of June 25th about four miles south of Little Salmon the boat he was in struck a log projecting from a driftwood pile and capsized. Read the entire article here.
• July 2, 1937: A landing base for seaplanes and float-equipped planes was made this week hy the White Pass Co. for the use of their planes. The rough ground just below the Yards was graded down and a gentle incline made to the water's edge, providing an excellent landing spot which be will be in use as soon as the steamer Casca is launched.
• July 2, 1937: Margaret, five-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Taylor, was brought to town on Monday from Carcross and was admitted to the General Hospital suffering from severe lacerations and hites inflicted by dogs. The little girl fell where the dogs were tied up and before she could get out of reach the animals attacked her.

• July 9, 1937: The inaugural flight of the United Air Transport mail plane arrived in Whitehorse from Edmonton at 10:55 Monday evening. Under the control of Grant McConachie, president and manager of the company, the pontoon equipped craft left Edmonton at 8:15 (Yukon Time) Monday morning on the 1100-mile flight, arriving here nearly 15 hours later after bucking headwinds nearly all of the way.
• July 9, 1937: Slim Keobke and Louis Irvine arrived in town on the K. A. launch Shamrock yesterday from the Hootalingua river, where suction dredge equipment is being installed for gold prospecting. Owing to a breakdown of the suction pump, Slim was forced to make the trip here in order to weld the broken parts.
• July 9, 1937: C. T. Redgrave, meter inspector, was a visitor in town last week. During his stay every meter in town in the service of the Yukon Electrical Company was examined and checked by him.

• July 16, 1937: Owing to the rapidly-increasing air traffic, it is planned to make a new diagonal runway at the airport, in the direction of prevailing winds to facilitate the safe landing of planes. Besides eliminating the hazard of crosswinds while landing, this will also add much to the length of the runway.
• July 16, 1937: Antoine Cyr, pioneer wood merchant of Whitehorse, had the misfortune to seriously cut his arm while engaged in sawing wood at the Bank yesterday. A pile of wood began to roll down and, in endeavoring to move out of they way, Mr. Cyr thrust his left arm against the saw, which inflicted a rather deep and painful wound.
• July 16, 1937: L. B. Jones, agent at Skagway for the Canadian National Steamships, reports tourist travel very heavy on the C. N. line this year, every vessel making the trip with capacity loads. The renewed activity is apparent in Yukon.

• July 23, 1937: British Columbia is not likely to take over the Yukon. Members of the Provincial Government have come to the realization that the acquisition of Yukon has not produced a favorable reaction in the Province and the residents of the Territory are definitely opposed to the plan.
• July 23, 1937: L. Lechner, local painter and decorator, has purchased the Banford Hotel and beer parlor at Stewart City, it was learned this week. Arrangements for the purchase were made by Alfred Burian, well known wood contractor of the Stewart district.
• July 23, 1937: Word has just heen received from the Toronto Conservatory of Music, University of Toronto, that Miss Nancy Rose of Carcross passed with First Class Honors an examination in the Theory of Music. Miss Rose, a pupil of Mr. H. C. M. Grant of Carcross, obtained 94 marks out of a possible hundred.

• July 30, 1937: Manned by the deck and steward rews of the S.S. Whitehorse and with Capt. Dan McKay at the helm, the new crack passenger steamer Casca left for Dawson on her first voyage on Wednesday evening [July 28]. The staterooms, saloon and observation room are beautifully finished off with a lining of Insulite hard-board and present a very attractive appearance.
• July 30, 1937: At his trial on Wednesday George Joe, local Indian, was convicted on a charge of attempted theft and sentenced to six months' imprisonment by Magistrate L. S. Kingston. Considerable speculation is rife in town as to whether the convicted man was the culprit in the epidemic of robberies which was manifest this Spring.
• July 30, 1937: Tom Bee, well known miner and a director of the Mt. Freegold Yukon Mines Ltd., reports that the company is now operating a mill on their valuable group of mineral claims. A new tunnel has been driven in 147 feet, following a three-foot vein carrying very satisfactory values. The mill was put into operation on July 21st and is now running with a crew of six.

August

• August 6, 1937: The Vancouver Yukon Placer Operators have closed a deal for the development of the placer area along Spud Creek, in the new Zeballos field on West Vancouver Island. J. E. MacAlpine, who formerly operated leases on Gold Hill, Dominion Creek and Cleary Creek at Fairbanks; and Charles Barwell, the first surveyor to reach Dawson and who installed the first hydraulic plant in the Dawson district, are the principals involved,
• August 6, 1937: Johnnie Johns, big-game guide of Carcross, is preparing for a hunting trip starting about July 18th, when the famed bow and arrow hunter Mr. Buchen of Chicago is slated to arrive for a month's hunting. Contrary to general belief, the noted hunter does not rely entirely on the bow and arrow, but also carries several high-power rifles.
• August 6, 1937: The discovery of oil only 13 feet below the ground at Haines has been reported by Henry Andes and John Compton, drillers. The two men stated that they struck oil on June 17th and drilled to 20 feet to get oil and water daily.

• August 13, 1937: Rescued by the R. C. M. P. schooner Striche, 12 persons including five children were landed at Coppermine from the wrecked Hudson's Bay schooner Fort James, which was crushed in the ice off Chattry Island Friday last.
• August 13, 1937: A distinguished party of Pan American Airways executives and U.S. government aeronautical officials arrived in aboard a PAA Electra plane on Tuesday evening after an inspection flight to northern points including Seward, Fairbanks, Nome and Siberia.
• August 13, 1937: Mike Finn and Bill Dodds, prospectors who left down river by small boat last week, returned to town on the steamer Casca Tuesday evening after undergoing the harrowing experience of being shipwrecked on Lake LaBerge. When picked up by the crew of the Casca Tuesday they were practically exhausted and had been without food for five days.

• August 20, 1937: W. R. Carruthers, manager and editor of the Whitehorse Star for the past four and a half years, is leaving tomorrow for Kamloops, B.C., where he will join the staff of the Kamloops Sentinel, progressive newspaper of interior British Columbia. Mr. G. C. Dingle of New Westminster, who arrived on Wednesday, is the new manager of the Star.
• August 20, 1937: Mrs. George Black, Member of Parliament for the Yukon, received the sad news by radiogram on Tuesday evening that her eldest son, Captain Warren Gaston Purdy, passed away that afternoon after a prolonged illness in Honolulu. He leaves a wife and three children.
• August 20, 1937: Top-ranking aviators of three nations were poised today on the rim of the Arctic for an intensive search of the polar wastes in quest of the vanished ne pilots, Sigismund Levaneffsky and his five companions, awaiting better weather. Bob Randall, former pilot of the Northern Airways at Carcross, is waiting at Aklavik to launch.

• August 27, 1937: Mrs. A. R. Lepage and family arrived in town Wednesday on the steamer "Casca" from Mr. Lepage's woodcamp at Lakeview where they have spent the Summer.
• August 27, 1937: A new arrival in planes in town was the Sikorsky Amphibian which landed on the local airport on Monday evening after a flight from Seattle via Juneau. It is understood this plane has been chartered by the Russian goverment in the search for the lost flyers.
• August 27, 1937: F. K. Ordway and son R. Ordway of the Ordway Photo Shop of Juneau were visitors in town over the weekend for the purpose of taking pictures. They returned to Juneau on Monday's train.

September

• September 3, 1937: An accident which might have had more serious consequences happened on the Pueblo road late Wednesday evening. The car driven by L. G. Waddel. with N. Murray Jr. as passenger, struck a broken culvert causing the car to overturn and roll down a 50 ft. embankment, turning over three times before hitting the bottom. Nobody was seriously hurt although the car was damaged quite badly.
• September 3, 1937: A quiet wedding of unusual interest took place in Christ Church on Thursday evening at 6 o'clock when Gwendoline Ellen Hocking of Ben-My-Chree was united in marriage to George Fraser Spoule Watson, of Whitehorse. The Rev Gordon Cross officiated and the bridegroom’s parents were the only witnesses of the ceremony.

• September 3, 1937: L. Brennan, pilot out of Fairbanks, landed on the local airport last Friday in a new Stinson Reliant, which he has flown from Seattle. Canadian Senator A. D. MacRae was the only passenger. The plane left early Saturday morning for Fairbanks.

• September 10, 1937: A hearing will be before the Supreme Court in Ottawa in October to determine if an Eskimo is just an Eskimo or an Indian. The Domininn Government treats an Eskimo as an ordinary citizen and not as a ward. If he lives in an organized district he is even eligible to vote. Indians on the other hand are treated as wards of the Dominion.
• September 10, 1937: The basketball season has opened in earnest once again with three leagues operating. Preparations are under way for developing three teams, one from each league, to go to Skagway sometime next month for a series of contests.
• September 10, 1937: The total placer gold production for the year 1936 in the Yukon amounted to 62,740 ounces, an increase of 18,000 ounces over the previous year. Approximately 61,300 ounces were turned in at Dawson, 800 ounces at Mayo, and the remainder at Whitehorse.

• September 17, 1937: A gold nugget of approximately 56 ozs. and valued at around $1,700 has been found on Squaw Creek by two prospectors who are working on the Discovery Claim.
• September 17, 1937: Mrs, C. N. Cash and daughter Kluane arrived in town this week from the lower river and left for the outside on the Princess Louise on Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Cash_are old-timers of Whitehorse, Mr. Cash being employed by the White Pass winter mail service at one time.
• September 17, 1937: Out of the southern skies zoomed the new Curtiss "Condor" bi-plane on the afternoon of Sept. 3rd, circled the airport and gracefully landed, the largest and finest ship to enter the Yukon. Recently on the New York - Florida run, the "Condor" was acquired by the White Pass & Yukon Route in New York.

• September 24, 1937: Dr. Henry B. Collins, assistant curator of ethnology at the Smithsonian Institute, said recently there was no doubt the Eskimo of Alaska and Canada came from northern Eurasia and perhaps were the first North American immigrants.
• September 24, 1937: G. Butterworth, well known Dawson gardner, passed through town this week on his way to his home in the Okanagan, where he will spend the winter. George reports having a very good season this year with his vegetables, raising around 2 tons of tomatoes in his greenhouses.
• September 24, 1937: A Speedy Skyrocket Bellanca plane on floats landed on the river on Friday last from Fairbanks and shortly after left for Seattle. G. Meyring was the pilot and there were two passengers. Meyring is a former P.A.A. pilot and it is understood he will be with that company again this winter, flying out of Juneau.

October

• October 1, 1937: W. Cyr and H. deOlde returned Sunday afternoon from Kluane Lake to which point they had freighted supplies for several prospectors in that district. They made the trip in five days, which was fairly good time considering they ran into quite a bit of snow.
• October 1, 1937: On being interviewed in Vancouver recently, Mrs. George Black, F.R.G.S., M. P. for the Yukon, spoke most emphatically against the proposed B.C.- Yukon annexation.
• October 1, 1937: The steamer Klondike was delayed 24 hours in departing on her last trip to Dawson by a broken piston head, which happened when they were warming the engins up prior to leaving. The accident necessitated a quick repair job as the boat crew is endeavoring to catch the Princess Louise on October 4th.

• October 8, 1937: A letter has been received in Whitehorse, sponsored by the Vancouver Board of Trade, requesting the support of Whitehorse business men in their effort to have the Dominion Government establish a direct mail route between Vancouver and the Yukon. The mail is currently routed through Edmonton.
• October 8, 1937: Taylor & Drury's launch "Yukon Rose" arrived in town last Friday afternoon at the completion of a busy season on the Stewart and Teslin Rivers.
• October 8, 1937: The interested governments should get busy on definate plans for the proposed British Columbia-Yukon-Alaska Highway and get it built with as little delay as possible, in the opinion of C. C. Garland, chairman of the Alaska Development Committee of the Tacoma Chamber of Commerce.

• October 15, 1937: The arrival of the Casca late Thursday evening brought to a close the White Pass activities on the river for another season. Besides a large number of passengers and a large freight business, this season saw the removal of 9000 tons of ore from the Mayo district This is somewhat of a record and it kept the river boats quite busy, especially on the Stewart River.
• October 15, 1937: The United Air Transport plane arrived in town Thursday afternoon from Edmonton after a series of delays due to bad weather and an extra flight into Laird country for some sick people. The pilot reports some real bad weather with plenty of snow, especially on the last half of the trip.
• October 15, 1937: There are several proud men in and around Whitehorse these days, having been the recipents of Coronation Medals. Those who received these medals in town were: Charles T. Atherton, Willard Leroy Phelps, Herbert Wheeler, and Bruce Watson, who has given thirty-four years faithful service in the government telegraph department. Medal winners in Dawson were G. A. Jeckell, Andrew T. Taddie, Ernest J. Corp, Charles E. McLeod, Mrs. Emilie Tremblay, Rev. Father LeRay, O.M.I., and Rev. Arthur C. McCullum. In Mayo: Joseph Eugene Binet and William Sime.

• October 22, 1937: Tuesday afternoon saw the return of the local basketball players and excursionists from Skayway. The three coaches have many complimentary things to say about the local teams and although the girls were the only successful ones, winning both their games by comfortable margins, the boys certainly put up a great fight and deserve much credit.
• October 22, 1937: Notice tom the public - The White Pass & Yukon Route has built a private road from the town of Whitehorse to their hangar on the airfield. This road is all on White Pass property and the entire cost has been borne by the White Pass Company. On account of the nature of the road, the lack of turn-outs and the possibility of vehicles meeting where they cannot pass, this road is reserved for the use of White Pass vehicles only. Pedestrians can use the road at their own risk.
• October 22, 1937: According to latest reports there are eight cases of infantile paralysis [polio] in B. C. Of these, three cases are reported in Vancouver, the remainder being in Kamloops, Vernon, Armstrong, Salmon Arm and Trail. Fortunately all cases are stated to be of the non-maligant type. The first "iron lung" is now installed at the General Hospital in Vancouver.

• October 29, 1937: The Variety Concert given in the N. S. A. A. Hall on Friday night last, under the auspices of Christ Church Senior W. A., was an unqualified success and well deserved the public support which it evoked. The proceeds are in aid of the church.
• October 29, 1937: Not since the Skagway river broke its banks in 1901 and flooded the town has the water been so high and did so much damage as it did on Thursday last. So disastrous was the flood on this occassion that the railway bridge at Skagway had to be dynamited in order to save the town; otherwise the river would have followed the course it did in 1901.
• October 29, 1937: It is with the sincerest regret that we have to report the death of Harold Gordon Blankman, which occurred at his home in Oakland, California, on Saturday last. He left Skagway on the C.P.R. steamer Louise on October 4th last and became ill whilst aboard the steamer with the result that he passed away a few days after his arrival at Oakland. The late Mr. Blankman was one of the pioneers in the Territory, having arrived in the Klondike in 1897.

November

• November 5, 1937: Monday last was another Red Letter Day in the history of aviation when a new air mail service was put into operation for the first time between Whitehorse and Dawson and connecting with Mayo. The contract was awarded to the British Yukon Navigation Co. Ltd.
• November 5, 1937: The Royal Mail Stage of the Klondike Airways Ltd. arrived in town on Monday at 4:30 p.m. bringing 17 sacks of mail. It is making the return trip to-day, connecting with the Company's launch "Shamrock" at Yukon Crossing.
• November 5, 1937: Mr. John McPherson, one of the few remaining old-time residents of Atlin, was recently found dead in his cabin, death being due to natural causes. He arrived in Atlin from Antigonish, Nova Scotia, in the gold rush days.

• November 12, 1937: The House of Macmillian has recently published "Frozen Fires," a book of poems dealing with the north. The authoress, Mrs. Floris Clark McLaren, was born in Skagway and later became a resident of Whitehorse for several years, her husband, Mr. John McLaren, being then stationed here as a customs official. They now reside at Victoria, B.C.
• November 12, 1937: Several inches of snow fell in the early hours of Sunday morning and has remained with us. The thermometer has registered "ten below" on one occasion this week but we are still enjoying lovely seasonable weather.
• November 12, 1937: Nome, Alaska, has been visited this week with the worst tidal wave since 1913, doing damage to the extent of $125,000. Buildings along the waterfront were completely demolished.

• November 19, 1937: Congressman Warren G. Magnuson predicted definite action on the matter of the Alaska highway at the present session of the U.S. Congress and states that the state department has been asked to negotiate with Canadian authorities for an agreement to build the road. Read the brief article here.
• November 19, 1937: Mrs. George Black, M. P., is to officially ope n the I. O. D. E. fete which is being held at the Hotel Vancouver tomorrow. She is a life member of the I. O. D. E., the Victorian Order of Nurses and the Canadian Authors' Association.
• November 19, 1937: Small electrial light plants are now being installed in some of the outlying R. C. M. P. stations and also radios. In this latter connection a case was cited where the life of a man was saved by Corporal Kirk of Old Crow with the aid of his radio set.

• November 26, 1937: Gold miners at Nome are now seeking the elusive metal from that portion of the beach where the most devastating storm to strike the Seward Peninsula in the past twenty-four years has uncovered a new gold area. The damage done by the storm to waterfront property is estimated at $160,000.
• November 26, 1937: At the biennial meeting of the Whitehorse Hospital board it was reported that new equipment has been purchased: an Electrical Sterilizer, 2 Gatch Beds, 2 Hospital Beds, 4 Mattresses, 3 Bedside Tables, 1 X-Ray Coolidge Tube, 1 Army Stretcher, and 1 Health-o-Meter Scales. All rooms, wards, bathrooms, corridors and stairways were kalsomined and painted. The total cost of equipment and renovations was $739.56.
• November 26, 1937: Miss Vera Jermyn is due to arrive at Carcross on tomorrow's train. It is understood that her marriage to Constable Douglas Betts will be solemnized on her arrival. We hope to be in a position to publish full details of the ceremony in our next issue.

December

• December 3, 1937: The annual meeting of the Whitehorse Curling Club was held on Monday last. Gordon Armstrong was elected president. Arrangements for the making of two sheets of ice were fully discussed and agreed upon. This work has already been started on, thanks to a member of the club who was present and undertook to have the snow piled into the building and levelled off ready for flooding.
• December 3, 1937: The older residents of the town will learn, with regret, of the death of George Keillor which took place in Vancouver last month, at the age of 59 years. For quite a number of years he resided in Whitehorse and was a teamster in the employment of the White Pass Co., driving the royal mail stage between Whitehorse and Dawson.
• December 3, 1937: Mr. Percy J. Tooley, a former resident of Whitehorse and now mayor and No. 1 live wire of Grande Prairie sends greetings to the citizens of Whitehorse and especially those of the old timers still here whom he knew some thirty years ago.

• December 10, 1937: A Turkey Shoot will be held in the N.S.A A. hall during Christmas week. The proceeds will be used to purchase sports equipment for the school, and at least one typewriter. Since the school opened in September, a class in typing has been conducted by Miss Morgan, using typewriters loaned by local businesses and individuals.
• December 10, 1937: The Royal Mail Stage of the Klondike Airways Ltd. arrived in town Sunday evening and left again for Dawson and way points on Wednesday. Heavy loads at this particular season of the year necessiated three trips having to be made this week.
• December 10, 1937: The United Air Transport Co's plane arrived in town from Edmonton on Wednesday and left this a.m. on its return trip.

• December 17, 1937: At the instigation of the New Westminster Board of trade, prominent business men in Dawson organized a Junior Board of Trade on December 13th last. Mr. V. C. Millor was elected President.
• December 17, 1937: Mr. George Simmons and pilot Cook of the Northern Airways came into town from Carcross by plane last Friday. They are leaving on the Princess Nora, which sails tomorrow, for Vancouver in order to purchase a new ship.
• December 17, 1937: Mr. Geof Bidlake, the popular purser of the Tutschi, is due to arrive in town on tomorrow's train from the outside accompanied by his bride. We welcome them back to Whitehorse where they are to make their future home and trust they will spend many happy years in this community.

• December 24, 1937: The unusual warm weather conditions which we have experienced this past week, coupled with the chinook which paid us a visit on Sunday last, had the effect of putting a crimp in curling for the moment. As a result the bonspiel, which was to have been completed on Monday, has unavoidably been postponed.
• December 24, 1937: It does not pay to give liquor to an Indian. So Sergeant L. S. Kingston, J.P., informed those who appeared before him in court yesterday. Charlie Broern, a half breed from Upper Le Barge, was fined $50 and costs, or in the alternative, one month's imprisonment with hard labour, for handing out gin to Frank Slim, an Indian, who was charged with being intoxicated, and assault.
• December 24, 1937: The Library was a hive of activity on Wednesday afternoon, when the Imperial Order, Daughters of the Empire, met to pack Christmas hampers. Each hamper was filled to over flowing with good things, made possible by generous donations.

• December 31, 1937: One of the most spectacular fires to occur in Dawson for many years broke out in the early hours of yesterday morning and resulted in the demolition of the Family Theatre. The fire started at 5 a.m. and soon became a great menace as it was fanned with a strong north wind. As a result the historie D. A. A. A. building, a famous Dawson landmark, was razed to the ground.
• December 31, 1937: Yesterday morning we were informed by residents in the Big Salmon district who had just arrived in town that wolves were attacking residents throughout that area. A pack of twenty wolves made their appearance quite recently and, for a time, harrassed the inhabitants to such an extent that it was not until three of the wolves had been shot that the remainder left for parts unknown.
• December 31, 1937: What might have resulted in a serious fire occured at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Samsom in the early hours of Christmas morning when an over-heated stove pipe set fire to the upper portion of the premises. Prompt action on the part of those answering to the call of the fire alarm prevented the flames from reaching the roof.

1938

January

• January 7, 1938: Northern Airways Company Ltd. is awarded the new airmail contract between Vancouver and Whitehorse. The inaugural flight from Vancouver is to be made tomorrow.
• January 7, 1938: One of the outstanding. mining deals of the past year was recently consummated by Malcolm A. "Sandy" Smith and his associates. They secured an option on all the holdings of the Discovery Mining Company on Pine Creek, consisting of 15 half-mile leases, together with all their equipment, hydraulic plant, water rights, ditches etc. The ditch is 12 miles long and carries 20,000 miner's inches from Surprise Lake and is the best in British Columbia. Options were also secured on Pince Creek, Gold Run, Spruce Creek and Dominion Creek.
• January 7, 1938: A full-page ad promotes two new cars for 1938 - the Standard Ford V-8 and the De Luxe Ford V-8 - available through Northern Commercial Co. Among the features on Standard models are a tire lock, one tail light, one windshield wiper, and one sun visor. The De Luxe models include two of each and other features.

• January 14, 1938: The W. P. and Y. R. Fairchild plane CF-AXZ, with pilot L. A. Vines at the controls, left yesterday morning for Mayo and Dawson with the plane equipped with the Lear radio receiver and transmitter enabling him to keep in communication at all times with the government signalling corps at Whitehorse, Mayo and Dawson.
• January 14, 1938: Theodore Becker died recently at the Whitehorse General Hospital after a short illness. He has been engaged in mining all his life and with his partner Mr. Cochrane has worked upon claims in the Wheaton country for many years.
• January 14, 1938: The Fairbanks city council have voted to purchase, at a cost of approximately $7000, an additional 155 acres in order to enlarge its air-port. This is beimg done in the hope that the Federal government of the U. S. A. will develop the field on a major scale.

• January 21, 1938: Constable Cameron, R.C.M.P. stationed at Selkirk, had the misfortune last Sunday to dislocate his left shoulder. With his team of five dogs he started out from Carmacks at about noon. Coming to a sharp right-angled turn a little way down the trail the sleigh was over-turned. He was taken to Whitehorse in the White Pass plane AXZ.
• January 21, 1938: To the 85 Radio Owners in Whitehorse. If you are interested in a campaign to remedy radio interference in town, you are urgently requested to attend a public meeting to be held in the I. 0. D. E. rooms on Thursday, January 27, 1938 at 8 p.m. sharp.
• January 21, 1938: The Boeing Aircraft of Canada Ltd. has now under construction for the Canadian government at its Vancouver plant a war plane capable of carrying torpedoes, bombs and a machine gun. It will be of the Blackburn Shark type similar to those now in use by the British navy.

• January 28, 1938: The royal mail stage of Klondike Airways Ltd. left town on its northbound trip Tuesday morning with a heavy load of freight drawn by a new "cat." This is the first trip this season that the "cat" has been put into the service.
• January 28, 1938: Sergt. L. S. Kingston was recently awarded the coveted silver medal of the R. C. M. P. for long service and good conduct. He joined thd Force at Regina in 1912 and took his discharge in 1915 in order to enter the ranks of the C. E. F. for service during the Great War, upon his return to Canada in 1919 he rejoined the Force and has been continuously in the service since that time. He came from Carcross about two years ago to assume charge of the Whitehorse station.
• January 28, 1938: With an eye to the promotion of Canada's increasing tourist trade, work is being rushed on an important western link in the scenic highway that is soon to span the country from coast to coast. The link in question, known as the "Big Bend" Highway, follows the northern bend of the Columbia River, skirting the north spur of the Selkirk Range and conneeting the towns of Golden and Revelstoke in British Columbia.

February

• February 4, 1938: Whilst en route to Ottawa to attend the opening of the Federal parliament, Mrs. George Black, M. P. for the Yukon Territory, asserted at Winnipeg that "the Japanese know the inland passage between the mainland of British Columbia and Vancouver Island better than Canadians."
• February 4, 1938: The Dominion government is considering a proposal to build and maintain a scientific station near the Arctic Archipelago, to allow scientists to delve into the secrets and resources of the north country.
• February 4, 1938: The Board of Trade is re-organized at a meeting on January 27. W.D. MacBride is elected president, Vice president is G.R. Bidlake.

• February 11, 1938: Thomas Keating, Sourdough prospector and miner, was found dead in his cabin at Keno on January 26th last. He was about 65 years of age. During the summer of 1933 he was badly mauled by a big grizzly bear and narrowly escaped with his life whilst he was on a prospecting trip to McNeill Gulch.
• February 11, 1938: Where are the birds? Are they being killed or are they being starved? Every spring hundreds of birds are found dead, probably starved to death, rather than frozen. The snow-birds are becoming fewer and fewer every year, or so it seems to us. There are plenty of ravens. Perhaps the ravens are killing them off.
• February 11, 1938: What may eventually prove to be one of the largest and most substantial lode gold deposits in British Columbia is reported to have been discovered on the property of the Polaris Taku Mining Co. on the Taku River.

• February 18, 1938: Percy R. Peele died suddenly on February 4 in Hollywood, California, where he and Mrs. Peele had gone before Christmas to spend the winter. He had just retired last September after 44 years with the Customs service, in the Yukon for many years beginning in 1898.
• February 18, 1938: On January 31st Vice President Charles Bocking announced the Alaska Steamship Co. have purchased the 6480 ton New York-Caribbean passenger liner "Caracas" for service between here and Alaska. The 300-passenger vessel will leave New York for Seattle Monday. The Caracas will be rechristened the "Denali."
• February 18, 1938: The Pacific Alaska Airways of Fairbanks submitted the only bid for transport of airmail on routes from Juneau to Whitehorse, and from Fairbanks to Whitehorse. The Juneau to Whitehorse bid was $1.55 per mile for an 800 pound load or less. The Fairbanks to Whitehorse bid was 80 cents per mile for an 800 pound load or less.

• February 25, 1938: Christ Church Sunday School opened in January, the teaching staff consisting of Mrs. French and Miss Margaret Murray, and the Superintendent Mr. Cross. We had an average attendance of fifteen (15). The Sunday school has felt a certain lack of co-operation on the part of some parents. This, we believe, is the prime cause of a slight decreased average attendance this past year.
• February 25, 1938: Dr. Snider, the popular dentist of Dawson who has been on a professional visit here for the past few weeks, left by White Pass plane for Mayo on Wednesday. When he has completed his work in the Silver City he will return to Dawson by plane.
• February 25, 1938: We are informed that the barn at the hotel at Stewart was recently destroyed by fire causing the loss of a horse belonging to Rudolph Burian and some fowl.

March

• March 4, 1938: Guests at the Whitehorse Inn and quite a number of local residents were favoured with a view of some interesting moving pictures, many in natural colour, at the invitations of Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Richards on Sunday evening.
• March 4, 1938: Captain George Black of Fairbanks, known to his Skagway friends as Stormy Black, has been awarded the Dawson to Nenana and the Nulato to Wiseman summer mail contracts. Captain Black operates three boats - the Idler, the Bertha, and a motor launch, the latter a gas boat.
• March 4, 1938: Mr. Fred K. Ordway of Juneau, known both far and wide as Alaska's flying photographer, was killed at Oregon City on February 17th when a hired monoplane he was flying fell on a farm near that city. He was engaged on a picture-taking tour across the country at the time.

• March 11, 1938: C. J. "Cliff" Rogers was appointed vice-president of the White Pass & Yukon Route company on March 1st.
• March 11, 1938: Mr. George Simmons, president of Northern Airways Ltd., and his three pilots Holland, Cook and Burton spent a busy week-end transferring passengers by plane to Mayo and Dawson.
• March 11, 1938: Mr. George F. Potter, an old timer way back, arrived in town recently with a new "cat" and outfit purchased in Chicago. After having a house built on sleighs, and loading a lot of various equipment and other paraphenalia, he left Saturday for Haggert Creek about 40 miles beyond Mayo.

• March 18, 1938: Livingston Wernecke arrived in Mayo in a non-stop flight from Prince George, BC, in his Bellanca Skyrocket NC1470, piloted by Charles Gropstis. It was the final leg of a flight from San Francisco.
• March 18, 1938: The annual banquet and ball of the Vancouver Yukoners Association is to be held in the Georgia Hotel on March 28th next. One feature of the programme which will be of especial interest is the vocal duet to be sung by the beloved Beatrice Lorne - "the nightingale of the north" of former days - and Jean Parker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bert Parker.
• March 18, 1938: The royal mail stage of Klondike Airways Ltd. left on Wednesday morning with twenty passengers, housed on two trucks, and a load of freight and mail for Dawson and way points.

• March 25, 1938: Work on a new tramway system, the Hector-Elsa wire-rope tramway, will begin as soon as the snow disappears.
• March 25, 1938: A 3-page article describes the progress of aviation in the Yukon over the past 18 years. Read that article here.
• March 25, 1938: With an estimated production of over $700,000 in placer gold during the 1937 season, the famous Atlin district will come within striking distance of its all-time production record of $800,000 made in 1899. The lowest out-put (1927) was $41,276.

April

• April 1, 1938: The residents of Livingstone Creek have constructed a new landing field for planes on wheels. This field at present is not large enough but with a little more work it will be O. K. for an all-year round service to Livingstone Creek,
• April 1, 1938: Mr. and Mrs. Irving Ray made a record trip in overland travel recently, driving their truck from Mayo to the Lefevbre woodcamp, 17 miles up the river, in one hour and forty minutes.
• April 1, 1938: The Klondike Airways Ltd. despatched three stages on Sunday for Dawson and Mayo carrying 41 passengers and a load of freight and mail. The Diesel caterpillar was also driven as far as Yukon Crossing. It will be put in operation again after the ice break-up.

• April 8, 1938: New Radio Regulations Now in Force. All purchasers of radio sets must secure licences before instruments can be delivered by dealers. Each radio in a home must have a licence.
• April 8, 1938: In the early hours of yesterday the ice in the river broke up. This morning the river is wide open down past the shipyards. There is also a little rain. This is a record.
• April 8, 1938: Dr. Snider is enthusiastic over the success of a new filter device which eliminates any radio interference caused by operating his drill machine. It consists of two small filters each of a different type. One is attached close to the motor and grounded to the upright of the dental engine. The other is attached close to the source of electrical supply and is also properly grounded. The combined filters are stated to prevent static escaping into radio bands.

• April 15, 1938: W. J. Mulvihill is re-elected mayor of Skagway for his fifteenth term. For the twentieth consecutive year Oscar Selmer was re-elected as city clerk.
• April 15, 1938: The U. S. customs department reports that the post of deputy collector of customs at Jack Wade, Alaska has been terminated and the office closed leaving no representative in the Fortymile country. This means that all Canadian plane traffic to Jack Wade, Chicken Creek, Walkers Fork and other places in the Fortymile must now fly into Fairbanks to secure clearance papers. All importations into that territory over the recently constructed inter-national highway is also necessarily prohibited.
• April 15, 1938: With the purchase of the store formerly operated by Mike Mynitti at Ophir, the Northern Commercial Co. Ltd. now operates 27 branches throughout Alaska and the Yukon Territory. There are four in the Yukon, at Dawson, Keno, Mayo, and Whitehorse.

• April 22, 1938: The BFR Norseman of the United Air Transport Ltd. left Edmonton yesterday at 6 a.m. M.T. and arrived in Whitehorse at 2:30 p.m. same day with one passenger for Mayo. Pilot Ted Field was at the controls.
• April 22, 1938: It is reported that Mr. George Simmons, president of Northern Airways Ltd., has made application to the Postmaster-General at Ottawa for a direct air-mail contract between Vancouver and the Yukon.
• April 22, 1938: Mr. and Mrs W. L. Phelps left Saturday morning for their summer cottage at Carcross. Mrs. Phelps and her maid are remaining there for a few days. Mr. Phelps returned to town Saturday night.

• April 29, 1938: Each year the White Pass & Yukon Route 'lampblack' Lake Labarge to aid the sun in breaking up the ice. The results of this operation, states H. Wheeler, president of the company, are almost unbelievably successful. A wide path of oil and lampblack is laid across the virgin, spotless ice, along the route the ships will follow, when navigation opens. The natural attraction of black for the sun's rays is demonstrated most practically.
• April 29, 1938: According to an official report issued by the department of mines and resources, Canada's reindeer herd, which is moving from Alaska to the summer range near the Mackenzie river delta, has wintered in excellent condition and inereased in numbers and in weight.
• April 29, 1938: The latest report regarding the proposed international highway is to the effect that plans for the same are in process of being drafted and the money required for its construction is to be secured by way of loan from the U.S. Government. This is rather interesting in a way but we are dubious as to its accuracy.

May

• May 6, 1938: Next Friday will be a Territorial holiday and the day will be utilized in a general clean-up of the rubbish which has been allowed to accumulate outside of premises and on vacant lots. Those who take a pride in their home and its surroundings have already carried out this most necessary work.
• May 6, 1938: On Tuesday, May 3rd, the air-mail service between Juneau-Whitehorse-Fairbanks was officially inaugurated by Pacific Alaska Airways.
• May 6, 1938: According to a radio message flashed to Washington, D. C. the whereabouts of the Soviet plane en route from Moscow via the North Pole to the U.S.A. may have been discovered, Three natives who reached Point Barrow recently declared they saw a huge plane fall into a lake about 140 miles south-east of Barrow.

• May 13, 1938: That great classic event of the North - the annual Nenana Ice Pool - which has aroused the greatest interest both far and wide for many years past, terminated this year on May 6th when the ice moved out at 8:14 p.m. The total amount of the pool is stated to be approximately $100,000.
• May 13, 1938: Several Cheechacos have set up a sluice box near the Aurora lodging house at the foot of Princess St. in Dawson and are busy shovelling in the pay dirt. Up to date a nugget or two have been found and some fine gold. There is no knowing what may yet be found on the sites of some of the old buildings in town.
• May 13, 1938: Henry Freeman, 80, for the last few years a resident of East Sooke and a pioneer of the Yukon, died in Victoria recently. Mr. Freeman went into the Yukon over the Chilkoot Pass in 1887. He was known in Dawson as the proprietor of two hotels, the Freeman and the Temperance.

• May 20, 1938: After operating one of the largest retail stores in Dawson for the past thirty-five years Mr. John N. Spence has disposed of his undertaking to the Northern Commercial Co. Ltd. Mr. Spence was formerly declared to be the largest individual grocer in Canada.
• May 20, 1938: Tomorrow Whitehorse will celebrate Empire Day with a round of various sports for young and old alike and culminating in a dance in the N. S. A. A. The idea of this celebration was originated by a member of the I. O. D. E., Clementina Fessenden, who in 1897 proposed it as a part of a movement to impress upon the minds of young people the value of their heritage as British subjects.
• May 20, 1938: Among the matters passed at the recent sessions of the Yukon Council held in Dawson: provision for the salary of a teacher at Elsa camp; the sum of $200 to be spent for repairs to the road on Kirkman creek; ehe expenditure of $250 to improve the trail from the winter crossing on the Hootalinqua river to Livingstone Creek.

• May 27, 1938: The navigation season opened with the departure of the streamer Casca for Dawson on May 23rd, with 24 passengers and a heavy load of freight on board and on a barge.
• May 27, 1938: George Wilson, of the B. Y. N. shipyards force, took a gang of five carpenters to McRae yesterday to construct some buildings for the use of the railroad people while putting in a "Y" at that place, in the work of which a steam shovel will be used.
• May 27, 1938: Mr. George Becker passed away on White River Island on the night of May 18 last, at the age of 70. The discovery was made by H. Edlund who was employed by the deceased. The late Mr. Becker had operated as a wood contractor for the B. Y. N. Co. for many years.

June

• June 3, 1938: The str. Casca arrived at the local docks Monday night on her first trip of the season. She left Dawson on May 26th with ten passengers. On Tuesday at 8 p.m. she sailed north with sixty passengers on board including sixteen for the first circle tour of the season.
• June 3, 1938: About 8:15 on Tuesday night an emergency call from Mayo was picked up in Whitehorse by Mr. Harold Davenport, chief mechanic of the W. P. & Y. R. air service and owner of an amateur radio set. The White Pass plane in charge of pilots Vines and Stone left the local airport at 9:20 p.m., picked up Dr. Duncan in Dawson and landed at Mayo where the wife of Lance Corporal Muson-Rooke R.C.M.P. lay dangerously ill, at 12:30 a.m.
• June 3, 1938: The str. Tutshi is expected to be able to clear from Carcross tomorrow on her first trip of the season. In the meantime the White Pass plane AXZ (on pontoons) in charge of Pilot E. Wasson, has been in operation despatching passengers and perishables to Atlin and way points.

• June 10, 1938: After a strenuous effort on the part of editor Mrs. Lois H. Allen to make the Skagway Cheechako a permanent institution, its publication ceased with its issue on May 27th last through lack of public and financial support.
• June 10, 1938: The White Pass and Yukon Route again demonstrated a signal achievement in aviation recently by picking up the entire crew of one ship in the morning and having them working on another steamer in the afternoon some four hundred miles away.
• June 10, 1938: It is possible to walk between North America and Asia. The authenticated fact that one man actually has crossed the 54-mile wide Bering strait on foot within the last 25 years throws new light on the long-debated problem of how the original inhabitants of the new world, the ancestors of the American Indians, arrived here. Capt. Max Gottschalk of Nome, Alaska, has confirmed the rumor that he himself made the epic journey in March 1913.

• June 17, 1938: Official announcement from Ottawa was made on June 15th that the airmail contract between the Yukon and Vancouver has been awarded the Ginger Coote Airways Ltd. a subsidiary of United Air Transport Ltd. who now operate between Edmonton and Whitehorse. A weekly service is to be inaugurated in August to fly from Vancouver to Fort St. Johns, B. C. where it will connect with the regular U. A. T. flight.
• June 17, 1938: The Rev. Louis Delarue arrived recently from France to become the first Catholic priest to be permanently stationed at Atlin. Eighteen months ago, in a small village not far from Paris,, he was ordained a priest in the Order of the Oblate Fathers of Mary.
• June 17, 1938: A large D-7 caterpillar, equipped with an Isaacson trac-dozer, arrived in town recently to be used in government road work.

• June 24, 1938: When interviewed on Saturday, Mr. McNeill, public works engineer for the Territory, pointed out that owing to the limited appropriations available, only work on the roads which was absolutely necessary would be carried out this year. He stated that bridges were a prime necessity and that during his inspection trip throughout the southern end of the Territory he found some bridges which were unsafe for traffic.
• June 24, 1938: The road westward from Dawson to the International Boundary will be used considerably in connection with mining operations in the Fortymile district. A complete dredge will be moved from Dawson to Canyon Creek and mining equipment for other operations in other parts of the district will also be transported by the W. P. & Y. R. to Dawson and forwarded by trucks and tractors to the Alaska side.
• June 24, 1938: Mrs. J. C. Morrison, who became seriously ill whilst at Telegraph Creek, was brought to the local hospital on Sunday by Northern Airway's plane piloted by A. Burtt. On Saturday night Dr. Hildebrand left Whitehorse by plane for Telegraph Creek but owing to exceptionally bad weather conditions the plane was foreed to return after reaching Atlin.

July

• July 1, 1938: After spending many years and conducting one of the largest retail businesses in the Territory at Dawson, Mr. J. N. Spence with his wife and daughter arrived in town Wednesday aboard the str Casca en route for the Old Country. They will take in the exhibition at Glasgow and intend afterwards going on a world tour. Mr. Spence recently disposed of his business to the Northern Commercial Co. Ltd.
• July 1, 1938: We are informed that the Hudson's Bay Company will open a store on Front Street on August 1st next.
• July 1, 1938: Miss Mary Winje, the Sourdough Queen of the Seattle Potlach of Progress to be held in the coast city from July 29th to 31st next, spent a few hours in Whitehorse last Saturday. She arrived by train and on Sunday morning she boarded a plane to continue her trip.

• July 8, 1938: Keen interest was displayed locally when the new Baldwin locomotive No. 70, expressly built for the W. P. & Y. R. made its initial trip into Whitehorse last Thursday at 5:15 p.m. With 17 carloads of freight weighing about 415 tons, she steamed into the local depot with a grace and majesty befitting the occasion. Engineer Goding was at the throttle with fireman McVey as assistant.
• July 8, 1938: We much regret having to report the untimely death of Miss Dorothy Dixon which oecurred on Sunday at Kluane Lake. Exact news concerning the tragedy is somewhat meagre but her brother-in-law, George Chambers of Champagne, informs us that Dorothy and her younger sister Isabel went out in a gasboat to have a swim in the lake. Whilst in the water Dorothy apparently became seized with cramp.
• July 8, 1938: Bradford Washburn, who is well known locally, and hig party of three young men have returned to Valdez after successfully scaling Mount St. Agnes, the highest peak and the first to be climbed in that unexplored Chugach Range. After a month of hazardous climbing and hampered by severe storms the party reached the top of the mountain on June 19th.

• July 15, 1938: Eric Nelson, who died in Manitoba on May 24th last in his 77th year, was one of four lucky laymen who in the early days made a clean-up of $205,000 on No. 28 above on Bonanza. His partners were F. Bonner, William H. Fisher, and W. H. Washburn.
• July 15, 1938: As a token of appreciation and respect and in recognition of his happy association with the Whitehorse Public School, Mr. R. Hulland, the principal, was recently the recipient of a beautiful carved ivory desk set including two fountain pens, the gift of the teaching staff and pupils at the school. He, with Mrs. Hulland and Avis, are moving to Dawson.
• July 15, 1938: Discovery of a new possible source of insulin, arising from experiments by two B.C. physicians with an old Indian herb remedy, was reported Tuesday in the current issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal. The new extract, if developed, will eliminate hypodermic injections, said an article by Doctors R. G. Large and H. N. Brockelesby, both of Prince Rupert, B.C., disclosing their research work on the roots of the devil's club.
• July 15, 1938: A article about former Whitehorse minister Hiram A. Cody and the Arctic Brotherhood was reprinted in the Star - read it here.

• July 22, 1938: The inaugural flight of the new Vancouver-Yukon air mail service will be made on Thursday, August 4th. A new machine with a cruising speed of 150 miles an hour and a range of 1000 miles. It is a product of the Fleet Aircraft Factory, Fort Erie and will be brought west as soon as test flights have been completed. The route will be via Edmonton and Fort St. John to Whitehorse.
• July 22, 1938: The new seaplane float and ramp at Skagway have been completed and are now ready for use. The float is located at the end of White Pass dock.
• July 22, 1938: Mrs. Agnes Mabel Skinner, wife of James D. Skinner, at one time editor and manager of the Whitehorse Star, died at the home of her daughter in Vancouver on July 9th. Mr. Skinner publishes the Lac Ste Anne Chronicle at Sangudo, Alberta.

• July 29, 1938: A flagrant disregard of the "gentleman's agreement" by some of the local owners of broadcasting sets, and the complaints regarding the same from a large number of radio owners in this community has necessitated the sending of a comunication to Ottawa by the Board of Trade requesting the appointment of a local representative of the Department so that the nuisance can be speedily and peremptorily dealt with.
• July 29, 1938: After spending the past few years as superintendent of the local hospital and as the medical health officer for the southern end of the Territory Dr. E. E. Hildebrand and Mrs. Hildebrand left yesterday morning for the outside. Dr. Hildebrand's departure marks the close of a most regrettable and very painful incident in the history of this community.
• July 29, 1938: At the R. C. M. P. Detachment on the evening of July 26th Ann Watkins of Regina Sask. became the bride of Francis Edward Constable of London, England. Sergt. L. S. Kingston officiated at the ceremony. Both of the contracting parties are employed at the local steam laundry.

August

• August 5, 1938: The first consignment of air mail to reach Whitehorse direct from Vancouver arrived August 4. The new airmail service contract has been awarded to Ginger Coote Airways Ltd.
• August 5, 1938: After 30 years away, Sam McGee arrived back to Whitehorse on the Saturday train. It was at the invitation of Mr. R. Corless of Fort George, B.C. that Mr. McGee came north ths year. They will be leaving by plane for the Liard river district in the near future and may visit the Kluane district as well.
• August 5, 1938: Under the auspices of the Institute of Natural History, New York Museum, a party of naturalists, including Mr. Richard K. Mellon, are making an expedition into the Kluane district and are expected to arrive by plane at Burwash about August 12th next.

• August 12, 1938: We regret to report the death of Ruth Mary "Pinky" Porter, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Porter, which occurred at the local hospital at midnight Saturday, at the age of 12 years and 4 months. Read the brief article, with a link to her grave, here.
• August 12, 1938: After spending just over two years in charge of the R.C.M.P. headquarters in Whitehorse and a total of 26 years with the Force, Sergt. L. S. Kingston left here on yesterday morning's train for the outside, accompanied by Mrs. Kingston. They will spend a few days in Vancouver and then entrain for Quebec where they will board the palatial C.P.R. steamer Empress of Britain on August 27th bound for Southampton, England.
• August 12, 1938: A Northern Airways plane arrived at Dawson on August 4th on its first scheduled weekly trip.

• August 19, 1938: In Dawson, Jack Salois, sourdough hotel owner and proprietor of the Westminster Hotel and owner of half interest in the Occidental Hotel, recently purchased the other half from the Thomas Doyle Estate. Mr. Salois has made certain alterations and everything is now in first class order.
• August 19, 1938: Mike Pavisic, a pioneer of '98 with 40 years continuous residence in the Yukon district, was a recent visitor in Dawson. Mr. Pavisic makes the boast of having never worked for anyone since his arrival in the north - a lone follower of the elusive precious metal called gold.
• August 19, 1938: A pink granite themorial was unveiled to the memory of the late Will Rogers and Wiley Post on the site where the fatal plane accident occurred on August 15th, 1935. Beverley Morgan, daughter of Sergt. Stanley Morgan, who was among the first to reach the scene of the crash, officiated at the ceremony.

• August 26, 1938: Last Friday, George Johns, an Indian, suffered badly from wounds inflicted by a grizzly bear which necessitated his removal to the local hospital. It happened about thirty miles out of town when he and some companions came across the bear and her three cubs.
• August 26, 1938: The Discovery Day celebration in Dawson went off with a bang and drew a large crowd of visitors. Mr. Dudley, a visitor, won the automobile competition and accepted cash in lieu of the car. Half of the $1000 prize he turned over to the Pioneers Association.
• August 26, 1938: Miss Antoinette Hobbis was crowned "Queen of the Yukon" after coming through with flying colours in a very close contest. She arrived in Dawson about a year and a half ago and for a time was employed at the Arcade Cafe. Later she joined the staff of Herbert Winaut's General Store. We hope her "reign" will be a truly happy one.

September

• September 2, 1938: There arrived in town on Sunday evening a young man by the name of W. J. Mucklow who in a ten foot rowboat rowed all the way from New Westminster to Skagway with his fox terrier Pat. Starting out down the Fraser river on May 28th, this 25 year old arrived at Skagway on August 26th. He hopes to obtain work as a wood-cutter for the winter.
• September 2, 1938: Mr. J. E. "Eddie" Marcotte, the local barber and one of the oldest Sourdoughs in this part of the Territory, celebrated his seventy-seventh birthday last Friday, August 26th. He arrived in the Yukon on July 5th, 1910, and still operates the oldest barber shop in town. For fourteen years he also operated a fox farm on the other side of the river.
• September 2, 1938: Mr. Dan Gillis has recently completed for the B.Y.N.Co. a dandy boat for service at Marsh Lake dam. It is a fine little craft 35 feet long with a six foot beam and a 15 h. p. Star engine is now being installed in it.

• September 9, 1938: Famous movie star Robert Taylor was on the last northbound sailing of the Princess Louise, boarding under his own name, S. A. Brugh. Although booked into the Whitehorse Inn, plans changed at Carcross and he took the Ben-My-Chree excursion on the Tutshi instead. Only a few months ago his film "Magnificent Obsession" played at the W. H. Theatre.
• September 9, 1938: According to Dr. Bostock's report on the mining industry of Yukon for 1937, placer gold mining in the unglaciated areas of Yukon shows promise of continuing as an important industry for at least another fifty years. The Klondike district alone contains sufficient proved reserves to keep most of the dredges now operating or under construction in operation for more than fifteen years.
• September 9, 1938: We regret having to report the death of Johnny Jackson, known to all and. sundry as "Tip-Toe Johnny," an Indian, which occurred at the local hospital on Monday, the result of blood poisoning following a cut finger whilst dressing a mountain goat.

• September 16, 1938: After being thoroughly over-hauled and extended twenty-five feet, the old reliable steamer Nasutlin was recently placed in the river again and left yesterday on her first trip of the season down the river. She carried a cargo of explosives and therefore had no passengers on board.
• September 16, 1938: Mr. Richard K. Mellon of Pittsburg and his party arrived back in town by P. A. A. plane Friday after a hunting trip through the Kluane country with the famous Jaquot brothers as their guides. They had two moose, six caribou, six mountain sheep and four bears, also secured, by special permit, one group of Ovis Dalli sheep, one horned owl, one Hawk owl and two plover for the American Natural History Society's museum in New York.
• September 16, 1938: On Saturday Mr. Grant McConachie, president of the U. A. T. arrived in town from Edmonton with a special party on an inspection trip in connection with the Trans-Canada service hook-up which is to be put into operation later on.

• September 23, 1938: On Friday last Mr. Edward Hensley, a member of the section crew at Log Cabin, died in the Skagway hospital from the results of injuries sustained in an accident which occurred at noon time the previous day about a quarter of a mile south of Log Cabin. Read the entire article here.
• September 23, 1938: Mr. Wm. Sime, government assayer at Keno is making good on his Rio group of claims on Galena. He has owned these claims for 15 years but it was only a year ago that he started developing the property. He now has a shaft down 65 feet and all timbered.
• September 23, 1938: Wood rafts are beginning to arrive in "port" at Dawson, clearly denoting that the time is near when all wise people will stock up their winter's fuel without further delay. The bars below the Klondike river are gradually taking on their usual shape - high and long - for this time of the year.

• September 30, 1938: Last year, Miss Virginia E. Chapman of Dawson was proclaimed the first Queen of the Yukon. Last Friday, she became the bride of Mr. Joseph Oman Redmond. Both are graduates of Dawson High School.
• September 30, 1938: The new airplane route established about three months ago by the Northern Airways Ltd. of Carcross between Juneau and Dawson via Atlin is becoming popular. Passengers are now enabled to leave Dawson and be in Seattle within a couple of days.
• September 30, 1938: The R.C.M.P. have recently acquired a new Ford pick-up truck. It is a snappy looking model painted in red.

October

• October 7, 1938: The newsy weekly publication, the Mayo Miner, which is in a class by itself where local news is concerned, reports that Eugene Binet, pioneer businessman of Mayo, plans on leaving shortly for the coast where he will join his wife and son.
• October 7, 1938: The remains of Daisy Mullen (nee Daisy Mason) are en route up the coast from Seattle for burial at Carcross beside those of her father James Mason who was widely known as Skookum Jim and as one of the discoverers of gold on Bonanza Creek that started the famous Klondike gold stampede.
• October 7, 1938: With the sailing of the Casca on Wednesday morning all the river steamers are making their last trips of the season prior to being placed upon the ways for the winter. The Yukon is already in port and the crew on same left on Tuesday's train for the outside.

• October 14, 1938: With a handsome necklace of gold nuggets encircling her neck from which hung a gold dust-filled pennant "Klondike Kate" Matson of Bend, Oregon, celebrated her 58th birthday on October 5th back in her girlhood home in Spokane. Gold nuggets also hung from her ears and a ring, carved from a gold nugget, replaced her wedding ring. Mr. Matson is still seeking the elusive metal at Sixtymile and will not be going outside this year.
• October 14, 1938: At the "Last Boat Dance" in Dawson last Friday, Miss Alice Burkhard, one of the most popular young ladies in the Gold City, was the lucky lady to be standing on the right number marked on the floor when the music stopped. The prize was a round trip by airplane to Whitehorse with all expenses paid.
• October 14, 1938: Speaking at Terrace recently, George Litle advanced the advantages of the Kitwancool Valley as the starting point of a route for the Alaska highway. He would go north from Kitwanga up the Kitwancool Valley to Meziadin Lake, north of Sewart, and on to Teslin River, across to the Hootlingua and Pelly River system and along to the Yukon below Whitehorse and thence to Dawson.

• October 21, 1938: Premier Mackenzie King has promised to appoint a Canadian commission to co-operate with a similar American commission to study the feasibility of an Alaskan Highway. No commitments regarding its construction have been made by the Dominion.
• October 21, 1938: Truck drivers arriving in Dawson from the Alaska side report quite a heavy fall of snow at Jack Wade amd on the high domes along the trail.
• October 21, 1938: "Bud" Holbrook had his right hand severely injured last week whilst doing repair work on the Holbrook dredge on the Sixtymile river. Whilst holding on to a running cable his hand got caught in the block and the flesh was torn off the second finger whieh was amputated on his arrival at the hospital.

• October 28, 1938: Last weekend, Leslie Cook of Northern Airways Ltd. flew through a blinding snowstorm into the Muddy Creek district, a distance of approximately three hundred miles, and there picked up Harry Finn, a miner, who was suffering from a fractured ankle. Pilot Cook flew his passenger into Atlin and there turned him over to Dr. F. Burns Roth who is in charge of the general hospital there.
• October 28, 1938: The Mayo Miner reported on October 21st the passing of Charles Furgeson that morning. He was 82 vears of age and one of the earliest pioneers of the Yukon, having come Circle and Fortymile districts in 1893. He later went to Dawson and then to Mayo where he spent the remaining years of his life, never making a journey to the outside.
• October 28, 1938: A week or so ago the various boat crews left for the Outside. This week marked the end of another season's operations at the local shipyards and the exodus of the crews for the coast.

November

• November 4, 1938: The Dawson-Juneau air service operated by the Northern Airways Ltd. is proving very popular. During October the company made thirteen capacity flights out of Dawson alone.
• November 4, 1938: Edward Kemp Sargison, who came to Dawson in 1902 to work at The Yukon Sun, died in Seattle two weeks ago. Ed was a highly-skilled journeyman printer and linotype operator, and in 1904 after the Sun plant was damaged by fire, he went with it to Fairbanks for what is now the Fairbanks News-Miner.
• November 4, 1938: Next Tuesday, November 8th, the Lions Gate Bridge will be opened in Vancouver. Completed at a cost of $6,000,000, it is the longest single span suspension bridge in the British Empire and the longest stranded cable bridge in the world.

• November 11, 1938: As in former years the Armistice Day services were held here under the auspices of the Yukon Chapter, I. O. D. E. The Rt. Rev. W. A. Geddes, Bishop of the Yukon, officiated both at the services held in the I. O. D. E. rooms and also at the cenotaph.
• November 11, 1938: Mrs. Esther Robinson, stated to be the first white woman to explore the Yukon country and in her day one of the nation's most popular actresses, was given a pauper's burial at Elizabeth, NJ, on October 29th. She was known on the stage as Esther Lyons. When in Victoria, B. C. in 1890 she left with her husband to join the D. Z. Wilson expedition into Alaska. Acting as secretary of the expedition she travelled for fourteen months going as far as Point Barrow.
• November 11, 1938: The convention of the Evergreen Playground Association representing tourist, organizations in Oregon, Washington and British Columbia, by resolution unanimously approved the proposed Alaska Highway because it would promote tourist traffic to the Pacific Northwest.

• November 18, 1938: Pilot Everett Wasson is in Seattle to accept delivery on behalf of the White Pass and Yukon Route of the new 10 place Bellanca air-bus which his company has recently purchased.
• November 18, 1938: What may be one of the most contentious items in estimates tabled in the House in Victoria is $25,000 for the purpose of reconnaissance in connection with the proposed Alaska Highway. Premier Pattullo's suggested annexation of Yukon and part of the Northwest Territories is closely tied to this question and may be the target oflively questioning.
• November 18, 1938: When taking off at Carcross on Friday with a load of mail and freight for Atlin, pilot Fairweather of the Northern Airways Ltd. had the misfortune to put the company's Fokker ATJ out of commission by failing to clear the end of the runway. There were no passengers on board and the pilot was uninjured. The company has already ordered for delivery as quickly as possible a brand new twin motor fast ship.

• November 25, 1938: Gold mining operations in the Atlin placer district are gradually slowing down for the winter according to a report furnished by Mr. Emmanuel Olsen of the Colpe mines on his arrival in Juneau by Northern Airways plane. He states that the mines have not yet been completely frozen in and that there are still about sixty men employed in the creeks.
• November 25, 1938: Nn Monday four men belonging to the Ray Stewart outfit were travelling over the ice to their traplines in the Sixtymile when the caterpillar tractor they were operating plunged into the icy water, the temperature at the time being about twenty-five degrees below zero. They all reached shore and proceeded to light a fire to thaw themselves out. A little later Andy Anderson and Ivor Erickson proceeded towards the cabin but were later found within about three hundreck yards of the same, their bodies so badly frozen that they succumbed.
• November 25, 1938: Mary Blanchard, the fourteen year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. Blanchard of Upper Yukon passed away in St. Mary's Hospital at Dawson last Thursday. She had been an inmate of the hostel for some years and of the hospital for one Year.

December

• December 2, 1938: Mr. Thomas Dixon of Kluane, who recently flew by P. A. A. plane to Fairbanks in order to consult an eye specialist, returned to Whitehorse Sunday. We are glad to learn that he is feeling much better now. He will leave later for his home at Kluane.
• December 2, 1938: According to the Alaska News-Miner there are now being operated in Alaska five hundred commercial and three hundred amateur broadcasting stations. Today Alaska uses more radio telegraph and radiophone service than any other region under the Stars and Stripes. The old mukluk telegraph has had its day and is now a thing of the past but nevertheless its stirring traditions will undoubtedly find an honoured place in the future in both story and song.
• December 2, 1938: Sir Hubert Wilkins the noted explorer and Lady Wilkins, who recently arrived in Los Angles, have declared their intention to reach the North Pole by submarine. They are due to leave for the Arctic next March.

• December 9, 1938: To Messrs T. C. Richards and E. F. Keobke, who bonded the Teare-Miller property adjacent to Carmacks last summer, falls the honour of having produced the first gold brick ever to be secured from quartz property in the southern end of the Yukon and it touched the scales at eighty-four ounces.
• December 9, 1938: Mr. A. G. Bruce, one of the real old-timers here, died in his sleep at the local hospital on Tuesday. He was 86 years of age. Read the entire article here.
• December 9, 1938: "Bob" Jones' cabin at Hootalinqua was completely demolished by fire after he left for his trap-line on Wednesday morning. Mr. Jones has lost his entire stock of winter supplies, his fur catch, gold dust and personal belongings.

• December 16, 1938: Residents of Skagway were shocked when it became known that one of their oldest and most respected citizens in the person of Oscar Selmer passed away in his sleep on the night of December 14th. The late Mr. Selmer was born in Norway on January 1st, 1877 and came to the United States in 1905, afterwards locating at Bennett, B.C. Two years later, he moved to Skagway, where he has resided since that time.
• December 16, 1938: Present indications would seem to point to the various airlines making Juneau their logical gateway into the north. It has been a terminus of the P.A. A. for some years now and as soon as the necessary preliminary surveys have been completed a regular service from Seattle to Juneau will, no doubt, be inaugurated, to be followed later, in all probability, by a direct service between Vancouver and Juneau. For some time past Northern Airways have also been operating their "Golden Route" service into Juneau with marked success.
• December 16, 1938: The new Bellanca Plane for the White Pass and Yukon Route arrived at the local airport on Wednesday morning after being delayed several days whilst en route owing to bad weather conditions. The ship will be put on the Dawson-Mayo route next month.

• December 23, 1938: Over 6700 pounds of mail left Monday by the Klondike Airways overland stage for Mayo ,Dawson and way points. Same is expected to arrive at its destination not later than Thursday night for distribution before Christmas.
• December 23, 1938: Snow fell Wednesday night and the ground is now covered with a few inches of the fluffy stuff. This was a gift from Santa Claus and arrived ahead of time in order to have everything in readiness for Christmas Day.
• December 23, 1938: Dr. Snider, the popular dentist who is so well known from one end of the Territory to the other, has arrived in town and is now registered at the Whitehorse Inn. Make your appointments without delay if you have any dental work to be done.

• December 30, 1938: The Northern Airways airport, located in the Klondike valley at the foot of Jackson hill, is now ready for planes to land and take off. J. H. Graham had his "cat" on the job, and used the roller which was built for this one-time field, before the regular government airport was established near the Fornier ranch. The field is on company ground and the Yukon Consolidated Gold Corporation has given permission to use the location.
• December 30, 1938: Miss E. Dividivitch, who hails from the Arctic circle where her people operate a store and hotel, arrived in town by P. A. A. plane Wendesday and is on her way to New York where she will remain for an indefinite period. She informed our representative that her two sisters, Angelina and Ann, are now awaiting a wire on receipt of which they will journey by dog team to San Francisco to appear at the Exhibition which opens there in February.
• December 30, 1938: The three Cyr boys left with their auto for Carmacks there to spend the Christmas holidays. The temperature was 50 below and they had a mishap with the car which they had to abandon and mush about 19 miles to Carmacks. They are expected to arrive back home tonight on the Klondike Airways stage.

1939

January

• January 6, 1939: The Canadian Government appoints a five-member Commission to consider the construction of the International highway through British Columbia and Yukon Territory to Alaska.
• January 6, 1939: Carl Norquest who with his wife has been engaged in trapping in the Tropical Valley, Liard river district, for the past four years probably owes his life to the quick action of Sheldon Luck, the popular pilot of United Air Transport Ltd., who noticed their distress signal and made an emergency landing to get them.
• January 6, 1939: On December 28, Alaska Commissioner of Customs James J. Connors said that permission has been granted to the White Pass Airways, Inc., a Canadian-English line maintaining offices at Skagway, to land planes from Canadian territory at Juneau.

• January 13, 1939: On January 11, one of the oldest residents of Whitehorse, J. E. Marcotte, died at the hospital. See 2 articles about his life and death here.
• January 13, 1939: We have had exceptionally fine weather all this week with lots of sunshine which makes quite a difference in both temperature and temperament.
• January 13, 1939: The Alaska Steamship Company's "Baranof" sails from Skagway to Seattle on January 23rd and February 6th, then the same company's "Yukon" sails the route on February 20th, March 6th, March 20th, and April 3rd.

• January 20, 1939: Wednesday afternoon, the machine shop of Northern Airways Ltd. at Carcross was destroyed by fire when some gasoline which was being used for welding purposes ignited. Mr. Charters, the mechanic who was carrying out the work, was severely burned about the face and both hands and is now at the Whitehorse General Hospital.
• January 20, 1939: When the train pulled into the local depot Wednesday night a pupil from the Chooutla School at Carcross was removed on a stretcher and taken to the General Hospital. The pupil, a native of Fort Macpherson, collided with the school whilst sleighing, inflicting somewhat serious internal injuries.
• January 20, 1939: On January 9th, the governments of Canada and B.C. got down to definite plans for construction of the Alaska Highway as this great project, once a dream, became a matter of immediate practical politics.

• January 27, 1939: On Monday a White Pass plane piloted by Jesse Rice flew to Aishihik lake, about one hundred miles from Whitehorse, with foodstuffs for the Indians there who were reported as being in a serious condition through lack of food. There was a shortage alright but not as serious as first made out to be. There are about ten families located there at the present time. The devastation caused by wolves and coyettes is blamed for the shortage of food.
• January 27, 1939: Grant McConachie, U.A.T. president, announced his company will continue the weekly Yukon air mail service. A new twin-engined Fleet Airliner will be placed on the run, capable of operation on skis, floats or wheels. The new plane will have a capacity of ten passengers and a heavy load of mail and freight.
• January 27, 1939: After being closed for several weeks, the result of an outbreak of chicken-pox, the public school at Mayo has been re-opened.

February

• February 3, 1939: Corporal Kirk introduces in Old Crow a novel method of announcing the arrival of mail: when sorting of the mail is completed, Corporal Kirk fires 3 shots upon which the villagers arrive.
• February 3, 1939: C.J. Rogers has been promoted to Vice President and General Manager of the White Pass and Yukon Route.
• February 3, 1939: Letters written by George Carmack to his sister and other relatives during the early days on Bonanza Creek have been added to the collection of Judge James Wickersham.

• February 10, 1939: Constable Huxley, R.C.M.P., who has been on a patrol to Little Atlin with an Indian guide, is expected to return to the local barracks any day now.
• February 10, 1939: W.P.A. projects in Alaska which have received the approval of the President include $42,000 for Wrangell, Sitka, Saxman and Ketchikan, to be expended in rehabilitating and preserving historic native totem poles from abandonded native villages.
• February 10 1939: A disastrous fire has swept the Goldstein block in the business section of Juneau early Wednesday morning. The fire started in the basement of the five-story building and only the four conerete walls remain standing. Tenants from the fiftv-nine apartments escaped in their night clothing whilst the stock of the United Food Store and all the furs in Goldstein's were a complete loss. The Taku wind which had been raging for several days past aided the conflagration which was the worst seen in years in Juneau.

• February 17, 1939: When the Princess Norah left the dock at Skagway on Saturday she had on board the first ton of concentrates to be shipped by the Laforma Gold Mines at Carmacks to the smelter at Tacoma. Only sixty days elapsed between the time excavations were started and the mill erected and put into operation. Mr. T. C. Richards and his associates have a crew of twenty men working there throughout the winter.
• February 17, 1939: The business of J. Bamford at Stewart has been acquired by the Hudson's Bay Co. who will take possession on June 1st next. The company has also purchased two acres at Carmacks and it is understood have acquired a site at Dawson.
• February 17, 1939: Louis Trepinere, an old timer of Coffee Creek, who has been trapping this winter in the Carmacks district, had the misfortune last week to have his cabin demolished by fire. The temperature was 68 degrees below zero at the time and in his endeavour to save some of his belongings Trepinere had both feet frozen.

• February 24, 1939: The Klondike Airways stage which left here for the Gold City last week carried the heaviest load of mail and freight ever taken at one time over the Dawson trail.
• February 24, 1939: The annual report of the Treasury Department of the U.S. Customs Service at Juneau includes a chart showing the growth of the use of aircraft in the Territory of Alaska. In 1929, 8 aircraft carried 2,171 passengers and flew 33,951 miles. In 1938, 155 aircraft carried 26,885 passengers and flew 2,829,258 miles.
• February 24, 1939: The month of January just passed will be recorded as the coldest in Yukon history, the average minimum temperature for the thirty one days of that month being 43 below zero, and the same record continued until the middle of February.

March

• March 3, 1939: A meeting of the Whitehorse Athletic Club was held in the N.S.A.A. hall Tuesday night for the purpose of conducting a general discussion as to how the future activities of the club should be arranged. It has been decided to operate the Badminton and Basketball sections as separate entities.
• March 3, 1939: Last week whilst he was working in his West Dawson front yard building a boat Jim Hughes suddenly heard the crashing of broken glass. He found the cause to be a fight between his big lead dog, Bull and a wolf. When the wolf ran, Hughes hurried into his cabin for a shot gun, and today the pelt of a grey timber wolf is now drying in his cabin.
• March 3, 1939: Peter Lenez died at Essondale last Thursday in his seventieth year. He was born in Belgium and came over the trail in '98 with "Belgian Joe" Verheist when the Klondike rush was at its height and for some years mined on many of the creeks. In 1904 he married Miss Helen Chisolson, a cousin of Alex. McDonald the Klondike King, but his wife and daughter were drowned in the sinking of the ill-fated Sophia. It is understood that he left a considerable estate.

• March 10, 1939: Captain John O'Brien Williams, one of the north's pioneer river captains, died in Vancouver on February 26th. A native of Newfoundland, Captain Williams came to BC in 1893, obtained hig master's papers and sailed for several years in the sealing trade. In 1898 he joined the Bennett Lake & Klondike Navigation Co. as master of the river boat Ora, sailing between Dawson and Whitehorse, then in 1901 he accepted a place in the White Pass & Yukon Co., with whom he worked until 1926, when he retired. He was the pilot of many famous ships, including the Dawson and the Casca.
• March 10, 1939: On March 1st the name of United Air Transport, which has been operating into Whitehorse via Edmonton and Vancouver, was changed to Yukon Southern Air Transport. The company is taking delivery of the first of three all-metal, twin-motored ships, which will be operated on the Whitehorse-Vancouver run.
• March 10, 1939: Several fine new glass showcases (silent salesmen) arrived in town last week-end and now adorn the local store of the Hudson's Bay Company. Displaying a fine array of the very latest in merchandise, they are an added attraction to the store.

• March 17, 1939: A gold brick weighing 143 ounces, produced by the Laforma Gold Mines in te Carmacks district, was brought to Whitehorse on March 12th by Messrs. T. C. Richards and E. F. Loebke.
• March 17, 1939: The thermometer registered 40 degrees below on Wednesday morning. Those outside under such conditions would probably consider they were to "pass out" but Sourdoughs look upon it as so many more sticks of wood gone up in smoke.
• March 17, 1939: Wolves and coyotes are repoited to have increased in number throughout the Yukon and are depleting the Ter- ritory of fur bearing animals.

• March 24, 1939: On Thursday night, March 16th, the Yukonia Hotel in Dawson was demolished by fire together with the old M and N saloon adjoining it on the north side.
• March 24, 1939: We have in this community, in the person of Capt. Jimmy Jackson, a resident of many years standing and one who, in the early days, played an heroic role in the life of the north. Read the entire article here.
• March 24, 1939: The Lon Cope seaplane, which has been missing since February 12th last in the vicinity of Grand Island, 18 miles below Juneau, was discovered last Friday, March 17th, on Glass Peninsula, across from Grand Island. The six occupants were apparently killed instantly.

• March 31, 1939: The former chief steward on the steamer Whitehorse, P. "Paddy" Page, died on March 24th. Read the entire article here.
• March 31, 1939: "Apple Jimmy" (James Oglow), the famed Dawson Sourdough, retires after being in business on First Avenue in Dawson for 31 years.
• March 31, 1939: Northern Airways' new Stearman plane arrived at Carcross the latter part of last week, and with as crew of men and a new engine picked up at Prince George, Pilot Cook was able to recover the Waco from out the Sloko. The company now has three planes to put into operation.

April

• April 7, 1939: The Federal government has under advisement the holding of a plebiscite throughout the Yukon on the question of the proposed annexation of this Territory to British Columbia.
• April 7, 1939: Air travel wag heavy early in the week. On Tuesday the White Pass air department transported 16 passengers from Skagway to Whitehorse and then on to Dawson. A further 10 passengers made a non-stop flight in the company's "Condor" plane direct from Skagway to Dawson.
• April 7, 1939: Mr. P. Murray passed away in Skagway on March 31. In '98 he came over the famous Chilkoot Pass and for a time worked in Dawson. He entered the employ of the White Pass and Yukon Route in 1901 as a blacksmith and had been continuously in the company.s employ up to the end of 1937.

• April 14, 1939: Bertha Paterson, wife of Canadian Bank of Commerce manager W. A. Paterson, died at the Whitehorse General Hospital on April 9th following an operation. She was 58 years old. Read the entire article here.
• April 14, 1939: When Mr. T. C. Richards arrived back in town by plane Sunday morning from the Laforma Gold Mines he had with him the second gold brick received from there. It weighed 88.85 ounces.
• April 14, 1939: George E. Buchanan died recently. To give boys and girls an opportunity to enjoy some of the pleasures of life which only travel can provide, he incorporated "On to Alaska with Buchanan Inc." and for the past fifteen years or so a trip was made possible each year for a certain number of boys and girls to visit Alaska and the Yukon which. but for his financial assistance, it would have been impossible to make.

• April 21, 1939: The Chooutla Indian Residential School at Carcross was demolished by fire at 12.30 p.m. on Monday, April 17th. The workshop was also completely destroyed but fortunately the machinery and tools, together with the stores and much of the bedding were rescued from the conflagration. The 44 students are all safe and have been placed in temporary accommodations.
• April 21, 1939: The first of three twin-engined, ten-passenger Barkley-Grow planes bought by Yukon Southern Air Transport arrives in Whitehorse.
• April 21, 1939: Mr. Thomas Dickson, who only arrived back in town from the coast on Saturday, passed away in his sleep on Sunday. Whilst outside he underwent an operation. The late Mr. Dickson, who was a civil engineer by profession, was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, upwards of sixty years ago.

• April 28, 1939: With the new Y. S. A. T. service, flights from either Vancouver or Edmonton to Whitehorse will be accomplished easily in one day. You can then breakfast in Vancouver, leave there at 7.45 a.m. and be in Whitehorse in the late afternoon and well in time for dinner.
• April 28, 1939: Mr. D. M. LeBourdais, left Toronto Sunday night, arrived in Edmonton next day. Leaving Edmonton Tuesday night he arrived in Whitehorse Wednesday afternoon by Y.S.A.T. plane. Mr. LeBourdais worked on the old Yukon telegraph lines in the early days. Later he forsook the keys for the pen and became a journalist. He is now in the north in connection with a series of articles he has been commissioned to write for Maclean's magazine.
• April 28, 1939: Following enactment of a liquor bill sponsored by Norman R. Walker of Ketchikan, saloons will again be operated throughout Alaska after June 7th next. Licence fees for all towns up to a population of 1,500 has been lowered from $1,500 to $500.

May

• May 5, 1939: The Yukonia Hotel at Dawson is being rebuilt under supervision of proprietor Jos. Segbers, onetime willwright, and Ben Porter, Dawson's pioneer carpenter. The job will soon be completed.
• May 5, 1939: With four barges already at their moorings and the str. Keno and Casca launched, preparations are going ahead in readiness for the opening of this season's operations. A list of officers on the steamers Casca, Tutshi, Klondike, Yukon, Whitehorse, Aksala, Keno, Sibilla and Loon is published.
• May 5, 1939: That real old-timer, "Apple Jimmy" Oglow, of Dawson, has been so long in business that he finds it now impossible to give it up. A short time ago he announced to all and sundry that he had disposed of his stock and was going to take life easy for the rest of his days. But it hasn't worked out that way. Alexander Pantages, one time friend of the early days, is back at his old stamping ground making preparations for a grand re-opening. Although he can no longer hope to get a dollar apiece for his apples, as in the early days, he is still going to specialize in fruit.

• May 12, 1939: Last Sunday the Rev. Alexander Anderson commenced his ministry as Rector of Christ Church, Whitehorse. Mr. Anderson comes to Whitehorse with a knowledge of the Yukon. He was in temporary charge of St. Paul's Cathedral, Dawson, for a year, and also of the missionary at Moosehide from 1935 to 1938 inclusive. During the last year in "the old country", he has pleaded the cause of Canadian missions.
• May 12, 1939: From Juneau comes a report that Rolland Osborne of Matanuska, who is 17 years of age, has captured 54 coyotes up to April 1st Inst and, like "Johnnie Walker", was "still going strong." He was initiated into the art of snaring these predatory animals by Frank Glaser of the Biological Survey. With a bonus of $20 for each animal captured and an average of $10 each for the pelts Osborne's "catch" for this winter has netted him so far $1520.
• May 12, 1939: NOTICE. The attention of owners of revolvers and automatic pistols is drawn to the new amendment to the Criminal Code which requires all small arms to be registered immediately and every five years thereafter. Owners of small arms are requested to register same as soon as possible with the R.C.M. Police.

  

• May 19, 1939: For the first time in its history Canada is acting host to the reigning British Sovereign, H.M. King George VI and his Royal Consort, Queen Elizabeth. The royal tour lasted from May 17 to June 15, covering every Canadian province, the Dominion of Newfoundland, and a few days in the United States, but neither Canadian Territory was visited.
• May 19, 1939: When the train pulled in on Saturday she was headed by "No. 71", latest word in locomotive engineering and the latest acquisition to the already existing rolling stock of the W.P. & Y.R. That stalwart engineer, Maurice Goding was at the throttle and "Bill" Flynn was on the footplate as fireman. She is similar in design to No. 70 and we understand was assembled and placed on the rails ready for her initial run within eight days of her arrival in Skagway unassembled.
• May 19, 1939: It is indeed a pleasure to learn that, after a lapse of years, a day school for the education of Indian children in this community is to be commenced on Monday next. The Rev. Alexander Anderson, Rector of Christ Church, is to be highly commended for undertaking this important and necessary work.

June

• June 2, 1939: About two months ago Mr. B. Beloud and his party left here for Victoria Creek, a tributary of the Kathleen Lakes in the Dezadeash district, west of Champagne, to make ready for the season's operations on Mr. Beloud's properties. Whilst carrying out that work a big snowslide descended and buried both father and son to a depth of eight feet or more. The men in the camp worked frantically to extricate them and succeeded in rescuing Mr. Beloud Snr. They were not so fortunate however with his 18 year old son Roland. By the time his body was recovered life was extinct.
• June 2, 1939: Two survey parties arrived here beginning of this week to carry out another season's field work. Mr. A. C. Tuttle, in charge of the topographical survey, left on the str. Whitehorse on Tuesday night with his party of 5 men together with six pack horses and two canoes to resume work on the McQuesten river area which sheet he hopes to be able to complete this year. Dr. Bostock, who has charge of the geological survey, has a party of seven with him this season. He is working on the Mayo sheet at the present time in the eastern and southern areas from the mouth of the Beaver river to Moose Lake.
• June 2, 1939: The West Dawson current ferry was launched from its winter berth Tuesday afternoon of last week. Stanley and Frank Fairclough and Robert Grant made fast their raft to the Klondike City side of the Yukon river last Thursday - the first raft to arrive this season. They came in from the mouth of Pelly river where they spent the winter.

• June 9, 1939: Another young adventurer struck town on Saturday last in the person of Adelard (Ed) Bourret, a French Canadian, 25 years of age. Mr. Bourret made the trip up the coast with Mr. L. B. Jones, local agent for the Canadian National Steamships at Skagway, in the latter's 32 ft. launch "Clara R", equipped with a 6.3 h.p. Easthope engine. In 1936 Mr. Bourret got his name spread across the front pages of the daily papers by walking across Canada from Montreal to Vancouver. He is a diesel engineer by trade.
• June 9, 1939: Last week one of the old time Indians, Billy Laberge, who lived in Whitehorse many years, passed on to his Happy Hunting Ground after having spent several months in the local General Hospital. He was about sixty years of age. Reared and nurtured along the Hootalinqua river at Winter Crossing near Livingstone, he spent many years wandering and hunting around the country like other members of his tribe and was recognized as one of the best moose hunters in the Territory.
• June 9, 1939: Bob West, who during the past winter has been trapping on the headwaters of the Stewart, had the misfortune to lose his winter's catch and his outfit when the raft on which he was sailing down stream hit swift water and capsized. West had a hard struggle to reach shore safely.

• June 16, 1939: Mr. Eugene Jacquot arrived in town last week on a business trip. Whilst here he called at the Star office to again register his complaint against the inaction of the Government regarding the ravages made by wolves and coyotes throughout the Territory. He also suggested that if the government introduced buffalo into the Territory the Indians would be provided, at no cost to the government, with meat at a time they most need it.
• June 16, 1939: Seized with a paralytic stroke at his home last Friday, Isaac Malette, sourdough pioneer of the Yukon and widely-known Mayo character, was taken to the hospital where he died on Monday morning. Mr. Malette was born at Hull, Quebec and was aged 76 at the time of his death. He came to the Fortymile district with a party of some 30 stampeders in 1896 before the big gold rush to the Klondike. For many years he mined in the Dawson district, coming to Mayo around 1905.
• June 16, 1939: Having been notified by Indians that some human remains were lying on the river bank three or four miles below Takhini near Anderson's last woodpile, Mr. John Sewell and Gordon Silcox left in the latter's gasoline launch yesterday morning to investigate the matter and upon arrival at the place designated there found a human skull, shoulder blade, a rib and vertibrae. The shape of the skull convinces Mr. Sewelll that it is that of a white man who more than likely was drowned in the river ten or twelve years ago.

• June 23, 1939: The British Columbia department of public works has 4 routes under closer consideration for the Alaska Highway: one north from Vanderhoof by Finlay Forks up the Finlay River and by the Liard and Pelly. The next route coming this way is to go north from Topley past Bear Lake. A third route is the one north from Hazelton through the the Groundhog country to Dease Lake, Whitehorse and Dawson. The most westerly route would go north from Kitwanga to the Nass River.
• June 23, 1939: Mr Chas. McConnell of Robinson arrived in town Wednesday night on a visit. He informs us he has been in the Territory for 41 years and that the farthest south he has been is Log Cabin, in 1919. He was in Atlin in April, 1899, and has yet to make his first trip to Skagway.
• June 23, 1939: Mr. T. C. Richards arrived back in town this week after spending ten days at Laforma Gold Mines, Mount Freegold near Carmacks. He brought back with him two bullion bars, one weighing 121.1 and the other 63.3 ounces.

• June 30, 1939: Bert Parker, who had been residing in a small house near the old Court House in Dawson, has been missing since Sunday. He came from Atlin a few months ago, and had been working for Grant Henderson on what used to be the Groetcher concession, above Klondike City. He left his dog chained in a tunnel near Klondike City and would go there each day, either by using Fred Roman's bucket ferry or Peterboro canoe. It was discovered that the dog had not been fed or watered, and the canoe was missing. It is presumed that Mr. Parker has been drowned.
• June 30, 1939: Mr. Claude Irvine passed away yesterday morning in the Whitehorse General Hospital in which institution he had been a patient for several months past. The late Mr Irving was one of the real Old-Timers, having resided in the Annie Lake district for twenty-five years or more. At one time he was interested, along with three others, in the Tally-Ho mines in the Wheaton district.
• June 30, 1939: A public hearing in connection with the proposed British Columbia-Yukon-Alaska Highway will be held in Whitehorse on or about July 14th next according to an official communication received from Mr. Lawrence J. Burpee, secretary of the Commission. The party will be arriving by plane.

July

• July 7, 1939: The WP&YR has been awarded the winter mail contract for the Yukon, and the mail will be forwarded entirely by plane in future.
• July 7, 1939: Herb Gessell died instantly on the Dawson docks last Thursday afternoon when he was crushed by a boiler he was helping move into the winch room.
• July 7, 1939: Mr. W. F. Piper of Chicago, and his two sons, Norman and Wesley, arrived at the local airport on Wednesday in their private Lockheed Vega plane on a pleasure trip. They are making trips to Dawson, Mayo and Atlin.

• July 14, 1939: Sensational gold values are discovered on Tide Lake gold properties near Stewart, BC.
• July 14, 1939: Yukon River steamboat pilot John Gus Nord died at Haines when the car in which he was a passenger plunged into the Chilkat River. While the other three men escaped, Capt. Nord was trapped in the back seat. He was 71 years old.
• July 14, 1939: Dr. Andrew Grant, pioneer Presbyterian minister and one of Yukon's heaviest capitalists, was here Thursday night on his way from Toronto to Dawson where he still owns large property interests. As a man who dared to do right Dr. Grant has few equals among the northern pioneers.

• July 21, 1939: Word has been received that three iron lungs, the gift of Lord Nuffield, the well known British philanthropist, are now en route via the Panama Canal to the Yukon. They are destined for Dawson, Mayo and Whitehorse and are being shipped over the rails by the W.P. & Y.R. free of charge. Lord Nuffield offered to supply iron lungs to every hospital in the British Empire, at a cost of up to $25,000,000.
• July 21, 1939: A lengthy article reported on the July 14th meeting of the British Columbia Yukon Highway Commission, during which the chairman said that some people were under the impression that the highway was being advocated primarily for military reasons, but was not the case.
• July 21, 1939: Charles "Eldorado" Anderson, who came into the Yukon in the early nineties and later took out approximately $500,000 from one of the first claims staked on Eldorado Creek in the Klondike area, died recently at the ripe age of 80 years. Most of his fortune, which was invested in San Francisco real estate, he lost as the result of the earthquake which devastated that city. When 66 years of age he returned to prospecting for a livelihood but Dame Fortune did not smile upon him again.

• July 28, 1939: John Henry Hopkins, the publisher who was the first to see the possibilities of Robert. W. Service and his ballads of the Yukon and the Klondike gold rush, died in New York recently at the age of 71.
• July 28, 1939: Another attempt to discover the Northwest Passage is being made by Dr. Homer Flint Kellens, an evangelist who lives on a ranch in Delaware County, Oklahoma He is making the attempt in his 38 foot 150 h.p. halibut boat "Pandora" with a crew of six including his 21 year old daughter, Vivienne, an art student at the State University.
• July 28, 1939: James Croteau, well known French Canadian trapper and hunter on Dominion Creek, was killed Monday in a running fight with R.C.M.P. in bush back of his cabin near Old Jensen Road House on Dominion Creek road. He took his stand against Mounties who had gone out to investigate reports that the man was deranged and had made threats against lives of some old time acquaintances.

August

• August 4, 1939: The steamer Keno was disabled near McQuesten when a drive gear part broke. Two crew members were sent in a small boat to call for help, but while they were gone, a White Pass airplane passing over suspected a problem. The pilot landed on a nearby sandbar, picked up the part and took it to Dawson to be repaired. Within several hours the part had been returned and the boat was again on her way.
• August 4, 1939: Four members of the American Highway Commission, with their private planes and pilots, were in town over the weekend. They also made a trip to Kluane where they met with Eugene Jacquot, and to Atlin. They expressed preference for the Western route which would include Atlin to Carcross and Whitehorse, and said it might be advantageous in many ways for the highway to be constructed through the Kluane country rather than through Dawson.
• August 4, 1939: For the past several weeks John Noland's mine on Spruce Creek has been producing around two hundred ounces of gold each week, proving the ground is very rich. There are about sixteen men employed underground on the property at the present time.

• August 11, 1939: Mr. H. Wheeler, president of the W. P. & Y. R., states there are now fourteen airports and landing fields in the Territory between Whitehorse and Dawson. Nowhere along the air routes is there a stretch of more than forty miles without a landing field. Emergency shelters are to be constructed at all airports not already provided with such shelters.
• August 11, 1939: The largest quantity of seal pelts in thirty years has heen secured from the Pribilof Island reserve this year. More than sixty thousand pelts of three year old male seals have been taken to date and a sufficient number retained to warrant the increase of the great Pacific herd in the future,
• August 11, 1939: The Casca left on her tenth northbound trip with 77 circle tourists, two for Dawson, three round trippers, two for Whitehorse and four for up-river points.

• August 18, 1939: John A. Agnew, president of the Yukon Consolidated Gold Corporation Ltd. at Dawson, died early this month in Trona, California, of pneumonia following a bout of influenza.
• August 18, 1939: In an eighteen foot canoe especially built for salt water cruising and after making the thousand miles trip in it from Seattle to Juneau, two tanned adventurers with calloused hands made their way to Skagway and arrived in Whitehorse Sunday. They were Bert Hopkins (29), and Jake Jaderholm (27). They hail from California and were formerly in the U. S. Navy. They left here Monday en route down the river as far as Tanana, after which they are returning to Juneau where they expect to reside.
• August 18, 1939: For the special award made by Printer & Publisher for the best front page, the Whitehorse Star tied with the Alameda (Sask.) Dispatch for third place in its class in all Canada.

• August 25, 1939: Helen Goulter of Carmacks was elected Miss Yukon at the Discovery Day celebration held in Dawson on August 21.
• August 25, 1939: Thirty-two lantern lectures have been held at the Old Log Church, attended by a total of close on seven hundred people, and resulting in collections just a few dollars over the two hundred mark, the largest amount to date collected in one season. This was the first year for the new Rector of Christ Church to give these lectures, but with his previous four years experience in the Yukon and the unique collection of slides that have been got together, the task was not a difficult one.
• August 25, 1939: On August 11th, funeral services were held in St. Mary's church, Mayo, for the late Robert Fisher who would have reached his 73rd birthday next month. Born in Bonavista, Newfoundland, the veteran Sourdough entered the Yukon by way of the Chilkoot Pass during the gold rush of ‘98 and has not been outside the Territory since that time. For a time he mined on Dublin Gulch but when silver was discovered on Keno Hill he moved to Mayo and has been mining and prospecting in the Mayo district for the past twenty years.

September

• September 1, 1939: The Yukon Southern's new plane "Yukon Prince" arrived on floats August 30. It came from Edmonton in 6 hours and 25 minutes flying time.
• September 1, 1939: According to an announcement made by the Department of Mines in Victoria recently the B. C. Government proposes to grubstake between 200 and 300 specially trained men to come north and carry out exploratory work of the mineral possibilities along the route of the proposed British Columbia-Yukon Highway.
• September 1, 1939: The Japanese plane which landed at the local airport Wednesday afternoon arrived safely in Seatlle last night according to radio reports.

  

• September 8, 1939: A fire broke out in the beer parlour of the White Pass Hotel but the fire brigade contained it to the beer parlour and adjoining barber shop.
• September 8, 1939: War was declared in Europe on Sunday. Great Britain and France formally declare war on German - Canada will co-operate with them to the greatest extent. In the United States, President Roosevelt invoked the Neutrality Act.
• September 8, 1939: Mr. F. G. Berton, who has been mining recorder in the Administration Building at Dawson for the past few years, arrived in town by White Pass plane Saturday afternoon with his son Pierre and daughter Lucy. They are en route to their home in Victoria, B.C.

• September 15, 1939: On Sunday, September 10th, 1939, at 7 a. m., Canada formally declared war on Germany. A few hours afterwards it was announced that the U. S.A. Neutrality Act applied to Canada.
• September 15, 1939: The Governor of Alaska, John W. Troy, is resigning as of October 15 due to ill health. Dr. Ernest H. Gruening will assume his position.
• September 15, 1939: On Monday morning John Sipkus, a pioneer wood dealer and highly respected resident of Dawson for many years, was shot and instantly killed on the river front at Dawson by D. J. McPhee, who then turned the gun on himself. It all happened over an argument about wages and at that only over a trivial matter of three or four dollars.

• September 22, 1939: The tragedy of the present war was vividly brought close to home when our respected citizen, Mr. J. L. Sansom, was notified by wire Wednesday that his son, Godfrey, Corporal Photographer in the R. A. F. in England, was among the six hundred odd survivors who were rescued when the Courageous was torpedoed and sunk with the loss of several hundred lives.
• September 22, 1939: A telegram discussion initiated by George Black was published regarding men in the Yukon wanting to register for military service.
• September 22, 1939: The first flurry of snow this season appeared here Tuesday afternoon, but not enough to cover the ground. Down in Los Angeles it registered 103 degrees Monday. The vagaries of the weather man are certainly startling at times.

• September 29, 1939: Word was received on Monday by Frank Nakagawa from the officers and crew of the Japanese plane "Nippon" which was here on a good-will round-the-world flight the beginning of this month, requesting him to express to the residents of Whitehorse their great appreciation of the kindness bestowed upon them during their stay in Whitehorse.
• September 29, 1939: In MacLean's Magazine of September 15th is an illustrated article by Wr. D. M. LeBourdais which shows Whitehorse as a strategie point on the air route to the Orient. Mr. Le Bourdais was in Whitehorse a short time ago with Captain Bell, Manager of the Edmonton airport.
• September 29, 1939: The F. & F. Cafe in Dawson, owned and operated by that genial well-known caterer of good things to eat, Gustave Martin, is the gathering place nightly of interested war news listeners as the Cafe's 10-tube RCA Battery Set brings the latest news flashes from all parts of the world.

October

• October 6, 1939: Jim Cook, brother of Pilot Les Cook of Northern Airways, was killed on September 16th while making a rifle set to capture a bear which had been robbing his meat cache, when the gun went off. Mrs. Cook made a 300-mile hiking and boat trip from the head of Ross river, where the Cooks operate a trading post, to Selkirk to send a wire to Les at Atlin.
• October 6, 1939: Two pioneer Dawson men were found dead in their homes - cobbler and shoe merchant George F. Craig, at his home on 3rd Avenue, and Frank Wagner, at his cabin at Twenty Mile on the 60 Mile River.
• October 6, 1939: When the Casca left Dawson September 23rd on her sixteenth southbound and last trip of the season she had on board fourteen passengers all of whom were for up-river points excepting Adam Mrmus who came on through to Whitehorse.

• October 13, 1939: The White Pass staff at Dawson gathered together last Friday evening at the Arcade Cafe to do homage to Charlie Phillips, who retires from the Company's employ after 37 years, during which time he acted as purser on the boats, agent at Holy Cross and at Atlin, BC, and lately as assistant cashier and express agent in the Dawson office. He is retiring to his home in Victoria.
• October 13, 1939: 9,046¼ tons of concentrates were shipped out of Mayo this year. This is about 900 tons less than last season. The s.s. Keno made twenty trips out of Mayo this season.
• October 13, 1939: The ten dredges of the Yukon Consolidated Gold Corporation are still operating full time. The latest addition to the company's fleet of dredges started operating several weeks ago and is located near 54 B Hunker.

• October 20, 1939: The Whitehorse was the last of the river steamers to arrive at her home port. She left Dawson with 79 passengers for the outside and various up-river points and now she is high and dry on the ways along with the rest of the fleet.
• October 20, 1939: After being a patient at the Whitehorse General Hospital for the past month or so Mr. Adam Dickson passed away in that institution on Saturday last, October 14th, in his 77th year. The remains were later shipped to Carcross for burial.
• October 20, 1939: Thos McKay, silver operator of Keno, drove into Mayo last week with his fine new Chevrolet truck.

• October 27, 1939: During the past five days radio reception at Dawson has been a total blank on account of atmospheric conditions and the war watching public have to rely on the Dawson News for their war news.
• October 27, 1939: An unusual sight was witnessed on Sunday last when two caribou cows and two calves floated down the Yukon river past Dawson on a cake of ice. One of the animals fell into the water but managed to reach the west shore opposite the town.
• October 27, 1939: Mr. and Mrs. White have recently opened a high-class beauty parlor and barber shop, furnished with the latest equipment, where the residents of this town and district maybe sure of securing the very best of service.

November

• November 3, 1939: Mr. T. C. Richards arrived back from the Laforma Gold Mines by White Pass plane last Saturday. He informed us that everything is progressing saisfactorily and that they hope to start producing this week. The R. D. 6 Diesel ca bringing out concentrates, the accumulation of summer operations. A crew of 14 or 15 men will be employed at the mine all the winter.
• November 3, 1939: His Honor Judge Wickersham, one of the best beloved men in Alaska, died suddenly in Juneau on October 24th, at the age of 82 years.
• November 3, 1939: Godfrey Samson, Corporal Photographer in the R. A. F., was aboard H. M. S. Courageous when she was torpedoed, and his story of the event was published. He is the son of Mr. J. L. Sansom, W. P. & Y. R. agent at Whitehorse.

• November 10, 1939: William A. Moore passed away at Winnipeg on October 25th last. The late Mr. Moore was for years dredge master on one of the company's dredges operating on Upper Dominion. Failing health a few years ago compelled him to retire and he left for St. James, Manitoba, where he resided with his sister.
• November 10, 1939: FLASH! A radio message Tuesday announced the good news that "Slim" Williams and John Logan had been located about forty miles from Hazelton, B. C.
• November 10, 1939: We are sorry to hear that Mr. Crossley, the surveyor who has been in charge of the work recentiy carried out at the local airport, had the misfortune to put a buliet in his left foot whilst handling a pistol. Fortunately he only broke one bone.

• November 17, 1939: One of the saddest fatalities in the history of Whitehorse occurred on Thursday last. The WP&YR Fairchild plane, piloted by Jesse W. Rice, with two passengers and a load of mail, left Whitehorse bound for Dawson. It is thought the pilot descended through a layer of fog over Lake Laberge, expected clear air below. However, he dove into the water, and no sign of the aircraft except one bag of mail has been found so far. The passengers killed were Mike McCallion, on his way in to operate the mail service between Dawson and Coffee Creek, and D. H. Anderson, a placer miner on a Dawson-area creek. Read the entire article here.
• November 17, 1939: One evening about three weeks ago, Charley Taylor and his wife were out for a drive in their Chevy near Mayo when Charley Taylor spotted a coyote ahead. He was able to run the animal down, but it turned out to be a fox. "It was a fair size", Charley related "and the pelt should be worth around $7 or $8." Now if that isn't trapping in the modern manner - well, we ask you!
• November 17, 1939: J. E. Porter who has the contract for carrying the Livingstone-Whitehorse winter mail arrived from the former place last Saturday with the first over-land mail of the winter. He had four dogs with him not in harness but packed.

• November 24, 1939: Dredges Nos, 2, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11 of the Yukon Cons. Gold fleet have closed down for the season and the crews are in Dawson. Many plan on leaving for the outside where they will spend the winter, returning in the spring to assume their various duties. The annual trek south is on the increase.
• November 24, 1939: Miss Helen Baulter, "Miss Yukon for 1939", who has been in Mayo on a visit, has left by White Pass plane for her home at Carmacks.
• November 24, 1939: Mr. C. P. Mack, who came over the Chilkoot Pass in '98 and has been located at Carmacks for many years, arrived in town by White Pass plane to secure medical treatment. He paid a visit to the Star office before making his return trip on Tuesday via the Klondike Airways Co.'s stage.

December

• December 1, 1939: Captain J. McCann, formerly master of the B. Y. N. Co.'s steamboat Yukon for many years and one of the most widely known navigators on the Yukon river, died in Seattle on November 8th.
• December 1, 1939: About eight Indians left Mayo with their dog teams on a fishing trip to Ethel Lake and are expected to return shortly.
• December 1, 1939: The worst earthquake shocks in the history of the northwest visited the coast area recently and did considerable damage in Seattle estimated at over a million dollars. The area between Vancouver and Nanaimo was also affected by the tremors, which lasted twenty minutes, but no serious damage was suffered.

• December 8, 1939: Mr. T. C. Richards arrived back in town Monday from the Laforma Gold Mines bringing with him another gold brick and five tons of concentrates. The management are of the opinion that commencing the first of the year a small dividend will be paid.
• December 8, 1939: Surveyor Moncton of Victoria, in charge of the party doing survey work the past season between Hazelton and Telegraph Creek for the proposed international highway, has discovered a new pass south of Telegraph Creek which would mean a large saving in cost charges if the proposed highway is run through it.
• December 8, 1939: A slide occurred on the W. P. & Y. R. railroad Monday night which disrupted rail service for a short time. It is stated to have occurred near Glacier and to have covered the track for about a mile. Passengers for the Norah were taken from here by plane.

• December 15, 1939: Early in the New Year a Boys' Club is to be started in Whitehorse. Boys from the ages of 8 to 15 will be eligible. The I. O. D. E. have graciously placed their Rooms, free of charge, at the disposal of the Club, and the Rev. Alex. Anderson has consented to act as leader. The programme will include part of both Wolf Cub and Boy Scout work.
• December 15, 1939: The opening bonspiel of the Whitehorse Curling Club opened at the local rink on Monday night with fourteen rinks in play.
• December 15, 1939: From Juneau, Alaska, it is reported that more than 60,000 seals were killed on the Pribilof Islands during the past season. This constitutes an all time high record.

• December 22, 1939: The Hon. W. J. Asselstine, Minister of Mines and of Industry and Resources, Ses announced that the British Columbia government will undertake an intensive search for oil in the Peace River district in the immediate future. A six to seven thousand foot well will be drilled on Commotion Creek, thirty-five miles beyond Pine River.
• December 22, 1939: Instructions have been received from the general manager of the Treadwell-Yukon Corporation to shut down on the company's operations until next May. The order goes into effect December 24th.
• December 22, 1939: Dr. J. L. Curry, the well-known Chiropractor who practised in Atlin for a time and then passed through here on his way to Dawson six weeks ago, arrived here Sunday by White Pass plane en route to Vancouver by the Y. S. A. T. plane. He expects to return to Dawson in about a month's time to resume his practice.

• December 29, 1939: Between 80 and 90 of our Indian people, men, women, children and babies gathered into Christ Church on Wednesday last for the Indian Christmas Tree. Through the generosity of local merchants and residents as well as a personal gift from the Bishop of Yukon, Doctor Geddes, every one present as well as those unable to attend, received a gift, candy and apple, and in the case of the children, an orange also.
• December 29, 1939: At eight o'clock Christmas morning, Don Murray and Cecil Richards arrived in Whitehorse with the largest shipment of concentrates so far to come from the Laforma Gold Mines at Mt. Freegold near Carmacks. It comprised twenty-one thousand pounds. Owing to a slight breakdown to the diesel "cat" this load was hauled in by the old five-ton gas "cat" which was considered obsolete. However, all it needed was lots of gasoline to drink and patience on the part of its drivers.
• December 29, 1939: Charlie Taylor of Mayo is quite a hunter. After running down a fox with his car last week, on Tuesday, Charlie spotted a huge golden eagle poised atop the Fire Hall Tower, and nicked the big monarch of the air in the neck. The eagle had a 7-foot wing spread while its talons had a spread of from 7 to 8 inches.

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