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-John Black left Livingstone for Dawson for the winter in 1901.(("Big Salmon Happenings." //Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 4 December 1904.)) In 1905, George Black went into partnership with his uncle John Black and soon after signed articles for his younger brother Charles who became a partner in the firm in 1908. In 1910, George and John also opened a law office in Vancouver. John Black later held various positions with the Yukon government including legal advisor and public administrator (1913-27), land registrar, clerk of the Territorial Court, and in the absence of Judge Macaulay, judge pro tempore of the Territorial Court.((Hamar Foster and John McLaren, ed., "The Yukon Legal Profession" in //The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History Essays in the History of Canadian Law: Vol. VI British Columbia and the Yukon.// Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 1995: 484-87, 503 (footnote #156), 504 (footnote #157).)) +John Black was presumably prospecting or mining at Livingstone with George Black when he left to spend the winter of 1901 in Dawson.(("Big Salmon Happenings." //Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 4 December 1904.)) In 1905, George Black went into partnership with his uncle John Black and soon after signed articles for his younger brother Charles who became a partner in the firm in 1908. In 1910, George and John also opened a law office in Vancouver. John Black later held various positions with the Yukon government including legal advisor and public administrator (1913-27), land registrar, clerk of the Territorial Court, and in the absence of Judge Macaulay, judge pro tempore of the Territorial Court.((Hamar Foster and John McLaren, ed., "The Yukon Legal Profession" in //The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History Essays in the History of Canadian Law: Vol. VI British Columbia and the Yukon.// Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 1995: 484-87, 503 (footnote #156), 504 (footnote #157).)) 
  
 Dredging leases along the Teslin River were applied for and traded frequently between 1898 and 1913.  Some of the participants were J. D. Black with R. F. Burgh, G. R. Greenleaf, G. R. Griggs, Sarah Howard, and Frank Voorman.((Gus Karpes, //The Teslin River: Johnson's Crossing to Hootalinqua Yukon, Canada.// Whitehorse: Kugh Enterprises. 1995: 5.)) Dredging leases along the Teslin River were applied for and traded frequently between 1898 and 1913.  Some of the participants were J. D. Black with R. F. Burgh, G. R. Greenleaf, G. R. Griggs, Sarah Howard, and Frank Voorman.((Gus Karpes, //The Teslin River: Johnson's Crossing to Hootalinqua Yukon, Canada.// Whitehorse: Kugh Enterprises. 1995: 5.))
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