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| Billy Cletheroe was born in the Falkland Islands and came to the Yukon during the gold rush. His grandfather had settled in the Falklands after he was shipwrecked at the Horn in 1848. He was on his way from England to the California gold rush. Billy finished grade 12 in 1898 and his father gave him money to travel. He went to the Canary Islands, London, England and then New York. He travelled across the continent by train to Seattle where he heard about the Klondike. He reached Dawson in 1900 and took various jobs including bull-cook and dishwasher. From 1903 to 1905 he cut and sold wood around Dawson. He went out to British Columbia to pick apples and then returned to the Yukon and settled in the mining community of Livingstone, | Billy Cletheroe was born in the Falkland Islands and came to the Yukon during the gold rush. His grandfather had settled in the Falklands after he was shipwrecked at the Horn in 1848. He was on his way from England to the California gold rush. Billy finished grade 12 in 1898 and his father gave him money to travel. He went to the Canary Islands, London, England and then New York. He travelled across the continent by train to Seattle where he heard about the Klondike. He reached Dawson in 1900 and took various jobs including bull-cook and dishwasher. From 1903 to 1905 he cut and sold wood around Dawson. He went out to British Columbia to pick apples and then returned to the Yukon and settled in the mining community of Livingstone, | ||
| - | One time Billy was hauling freight on the river from Carmacks to Winter Crossing. Winter Crossing is located where the rough road from Whitehorse to Livingstone crosses the Teslin River. He arrived to find that a girl [Amy Laberge] had fallen into the fire and was very badly burned. Her family had given her up for dead, but Billy took her to the Whitehorse hospital, and she survived.((Joyce Hayden, //Yukon’s Women of Power.// Windwalker Press, 1999: 247-249.)) Amy then attended the Chooutla Indian Residential School at Carcross for five years.((Leslie Hamson, “Livingstone Creek, Yukon: A Compendium History.” Prepared for Heritage Resources, Yukon Government, May 2006: 59.) Amy was thirty years younger than Billy when they married.((Joyce Hayden, //Yukon’s Women of Power.// Windwalker Press, 1999: 247-249.)) | + | One time Billy was hauling freight on the river from Carmacks to Winter Crossing. Winter Crossing is located where the rough road from Whitehorse to Livingstone crosses the Teslin River. He arrived to find that a girl [Amy Laberge] had fallen into the fire and was very badly burned. Her family had given her up for dead, but Billy took her to the Whitehorse hospital, and she survived.((Joyce Hayden, //Yukon’s Women of Power.// Windwalker Press, 1999: 247-249.)) Amy then attended the Chooutla Indian Residential School at Carcross for five years.((Leslie Hamson, “Livingstone Creek, Yukon: A Compendium History.” Prepared for Heritage Resources, Yukon Government, May 2006: 59.)) Amy was thirty years younger than Billy when they married.((Joyce Hayden, //Yukon’s Women of Power.// Windwalker Press, 1999: 247-249.)) |
| In 1925 or 1926, Billy Cletheroe was the manager of the Taylor and Drury store in Champagne. He hauled freight from Whitehorse by horse and sleigh until he bought the first vehicle to be seen in that area. Cletheroe left Champagne after five years. His second vehicle is on display at MacBride Museum and is known as the John Sewell truck.((Joyce Hayden, //Yukon’s Women of Power.// Windwalker Press, 1999: 252.)) | In 1925 or 1926, Billy Cletheroe was the manager of the Taylor and Drury store in Champagne. He hauled freight from Whitehorse by horse and sleigh until he bought the first vehicle to be seen in that area. Cletheroe left Champagne after five years. His second vehicle is on display at MacBride Museum and is known as the John Sewell truck.((Joyce Hayden, //Yukon’s Women of Power.// Windwalker Press, 1999: 252.)) | ||
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