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 William T. Bragg
-Captain William Bragg, out of Victoria, was an experienced master of a sealing schooner in the Bering Strait before he was hired by Francis Rattenbury in 1898 for the Bennett Lake and Klondyke Navigation Co. (BLKN) fleet of small river sternwheelers.((John L. Motherwell, //Gold Rush Steamboats: Francis Rattenbury's Yukon Adventure.// John Motherwell, 2012: 23.)) In 1898, Captain Bragg was the captain of the BLKN sternwheeler //Ora.//((Jerry E. Green, //Yukon Riverboat Captains.// 2019 website: http://www.users.miamioh.edu/greenje/#B))
+Captain William Bragg, out of Victoria, was an experienced master of a sealing schooner in the Bering Strait before he was hired by Francis Rattenbury in 1898 for the Bennett Lake and Klondyke Navigation Co. (BLKN) fleet of small river sternwheelers.((John L. Motherwell, //Gold Rush Steamboats: Francis Rattenbury's Yukon Adventure.// John Motherwell, 2012: 23.)) Captain Bragg was the captain of the BLKN sternwheeler //Ora// in 1898.((Jerry E. Green, //Yukon Riverboat Captains.// 2019 website: http://www.users.miamioh.edu/greenje/#B; "A Pleasant Trip on the Ora." //Klondike Nugget// (Dawson), 3 September 1898.)) The //Ora// was the first riverboat to ascend the Yukon River through the turbulent Five Finger Rapid to White Horse Rapids.(("At the Dawson City Wharves." //Klondike Nugget// (Dawson), 12 July 1898.)) The Victoria merchants were happy with the //Ora’//s success as she was the first boat out and back to Dawson with provisions.((//Victoria Daily Colonist// (Victoria), 17 July 1898.))
-The //Ora// was the first riverboat to ascend the Yukon River through the turbulent Five Finger Rapid to White Horse Rapids.(("At the Dawson City Wharves." //Klondike Nugget// (Dawson), 12 July 1898.)) The Victoria merchants were happy with the //Ora’//s success as she was the first boat out and back to Dawson with provisions.((//Victoria Daily Colonist// (Victoria), 17 July 1898.)) Captain Ritchie was the master of the //Ora// in September 1898.(("A Pleasant Trip on the Ora." //Klondike Nugget// (Dawson), 3 September 1898.))
 In 1901, Captain Bragg was master of the sternwheeler //Bailey// owned by the Canadian Development Company. The //Bailey// was assigned to the Big Salmon River run and was tied up at Whitehorse most of the 1902 season. It may have been owned by the British Yukon Navigation Co. (YP&YR) by that time.((Jerry E. Green, //Yukon Riverboat Captains.// 2019 website: http://www.users.miamioh.edu/greenje/#B; Yukon Archives, Cor 722 (1902) WP&YR. RGI  II-I)) In 1902, Captain Bragg was master of the //Sybil// and in 1909 he was master of the //Casca.//((Jerry E. Green, //Yukon Riverboat Captains.// 2019 website: http://www.users.miamioh.edu/greenje/#B)) The //Casca// was a British Yukon Navigation Co. (WP&YR) boat. In 1913, Captain Bragg was working for the Barrington Transportation Co. as master of the //Vidette.//( (Jerry E. Green, //Yukon Riverboat Captains.// 2019 website: http://www.users.miamioh.edu/greenje/#B))