Yukon Blackwoods
Hello Folks:
I'm currently researching Blackwoods who took part in the Klondike Gold Rush of 1897-98. I've found a few, but the details I've come up with to date are fairly skimpy. The main player appears to be one F.E. Blackwood of London, England, who registered with Canadian authorities at the summit of the Chilkoot Pass on Dec. 31, 1898, probably while packing the required supplies over the pass and into Canadian territory for the run down the Yukon River at spring breakup from Lake Bennett, British Columbia to Dawson City, Yukon, just below the arctic circle.If you can add anything to the following, I'd love to hear from you. Thanks in advance,
Dennis Bell Burnaby B.C.
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Yukon Strays
F. E. Blackwood - (born ? London, England died ?).F.E. Blackwood registered at the Royal North West Mounted Police post at the summit of the Chilkoot Pass between Dyea, Alaska and Bennett, B.C. on Dec. 31, 1898, and gave his hometown as London, England. He may have been accompanied by another man named G. Edmunds, also of London,who registered the same day and was still living in Dawson City in 1901. F.E. Blackwood sailed out of Bennett, B.C. bound for Dawson City, Y.T., as a passenger aboard the sternwheeler Clifford Sifton Aug. 24, 1899. The Clifford Sifton, a 120-foot-long sternwheeler, was built at Bennett in 1898-1899. On July 24, 1900, she ran through Miles Canyon, and worked between Whitehorse and Dawson City until 1904, when she was destroyed by ice during spring breakup at Dawson City. Blackwood was a miner with registered placer claims in the Klondike in 1902 and 1903. An F. Blackwood was also living in Dawson City in 1901, according to the census of that year, and said he had been there since 1898.
J. Blackwood - (born ? died ?). He or she also sailed out of Bennett, B.C. bound for Dawson City, Y.T., as a passenger aboard the sternwheeler Clifford Sifton Aug. 24, 1899 with F. Blackwood.
Marie J. Blackwood - (born ? died ?). She was listed as Mrs. Marie J. Blackwood in Polks 1903 Gazetteer andhad a placer mining claim registered in Dawson City, and was also a stenographer at the Land Titles office in Dawson, according to the 1901 census, working for Joseph E. Girouard, who went on to become a Dawson City councillor.This may be the wife of F.E. Blackwood above using the given name that āJā represented.
Guy Blackwood - (born ? died ?). He shows as a passenger who entered the Yukon aboard a boat, the Cascade Locks, of Oregon, details not known. Cascade Locks, Oregon, may also have been the name of his hometown.
Donald M. Blackwood - (born ? died ?). In 1903 he was living at 7th Avenue South, 4 n in Dawson City, according to Polks Gazetteer of that year.
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