| Frank Bigger and his family moved to Dyea in 1898, and Frank opened a store [trading post]. The Biggers moved to Whitehorse in 1901 after the railway was completed.((Shirley Culpin, “Generations Worked Here, There, Everywhere to Make Good Life.” //The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 18 June 1975.)) Frank built a store on First Avenue.(("The Fabulous TCs" in Sam Holloway, editor, //The Yukon Reader,// Volume Two, 2024: 54.)) Daughter Lillian married North-West Mounted Police officer Frank Harbottle in 1901.((Shirley Culpin, “Generations Worked Here, There, Everywhere to Make Good Life.” //The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 18 June 1975.)) Granddaughter Bernadine Piper's family moved to the Yukon in 1902 with the help of her grandfather Frank Bigger. Bernadine married TC Richards in 1918.(("The Fabulous TCs" in Sam Holloway, editor, //The Yukon Reader,// Volume Two, 2024: 54.)) | Frank Bigger and his family moved to Dyea in 1898, and Frank opened a store [trading post]. The Biggers moved to Whitehorse in 1901 after the railway was completed.((Shirley Culpin, “Generations Worked Here, There, Everywhere to Make Good Life.” //The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 18 June 1975.)) Frank built a store on First Avenue.(("The Fabulous TCs" in Sam Holloway, editor, //The Yukon Reader,// Volume Two, 2024: 54.)) Daughter Lillian married North-West Mounted Police officer Frank Harbottle in 1901.((Shirley Culpin, “Generations Worked Here, There, Everywhere to Make Good Life.” //The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 18 June 1975.)) Granddaughter Bernadine Piper's family moved to the Yukon in 1902 with the help of her grandfather Frank Bigger. Bernadine married TC Richards in 1918.(("The Fabulous TCs" in Sam Holloway, editor, //The Yukon Reader,// Volume Two, 2024: 54.)) |
| In 1902, Frank built a house, later called the Martha Louise Black House, on First Avenue [Front Street]. Babe Richards [Bernadine's mother] remembers the house was next to John Sewell’s Store.((Babe Richards writing to Jim Robb, “Whiter replies about the Martha Black house.” //The Colourful Fiver Per Cent, Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), May 1999.)) In 1917, the Biggers moved to Washington state where they operated a greenhouse business.(("The Fabulous TCs" in Sam Holloway, editor, //The Yukon Reader,// Volume Two, 2024: 54.)) T.C. Richards and his family moved into Frank Bigger's house in 1922 or 1923 and lived there until 1944 when they sold it to the Blacks.((Babe Richards writing to Jim Robb, “Whiter replies about the Martha Black house.” //The Colourful Fiver Per Cent, Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), May 1999.)) | In 1902, Frank built a house, later called the Martha Louise Black House, on First Avenue [Front Street]. Babe Richards [Bernadine's daughter] remembers the house was next to John Sewell’s Store.((Babe Richards writing to Jim Robb, “Whiter replies about the Martha Black house.” //The Colourful Fiver Per Cent, Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), May 1999.)) In 1917, the Biggers moved to Washington state where they operated a greenhouse business.(("The Fabulous TCs" in Sam Holloway, editor, //The Yukon Reader,// Volume Two, 2024: 54.)) T.C. Richards and his family moved into Frank Bigger's house in 1922 or 1923 and lived there until 1944 when they sold it to the Blacks.((Babe Richards writing to Jim Robb, “Whiter replies about the Martha Black house.” //The Colourful Fiver Per Cent, Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), May 1999.)) |
