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| Percy deWolfe (1877 - 1951) | Percy deWolfe (1877 - 1951) | ||
| - | Percy deWolfe was born in Wolfville Nova Scotia and he worked his way west as a young man. He followed a King's County tradition of going out west for the harvest, but he never returned. He worked on a farm in Saskatchewan, | + | Percy deWolfe was born in Wolfville Nova Scotia and he worked his way west as a young man. He followed a King's County tradition of going out west for the harvest, but he never returned. He worked on a farm in Saskatchewan, |
| DeWolfe and his partner, Pete Anderson, arrived in Dawson on 28 June 1898 via the Pelly River. Anderson had been a fisherman on the coast and the partners were able to buy a fishnet on credit. They set up ten miles below Dawson and brought in the first fresh salmon to the town.((John Gould, "Percy deWolfe: The Iron Man and the Race." //The Klondike Sun// (Dawson), 14 March 2000.)) They established a fishing business in the summer and a freighting business to the Fortymile mines in the winter. They built a roadhouse at Sixteenmile River and two years later they constructed Halfway House, halfway between Dawson and Forty Mile, where Percy lived for many years. They stampeded to Fairbanks in 1903 but returned to Dawson in 1904 and resumed their fishing, freighting, hunting, and woodcutting business.((Carol Livermore, “Percy DeWolfe ‘Iron Man of the Yukon’.” //The Beaver,// Autumn 1977: 16 – 20; Elva Scott, //Historic Eagle and it’s People.// Eagle City, Alaska. June 1992: 105-106.)) | DeWolfe and his partner, Pete Anderson, arrived in Dawson on 28 June 1898 via the Pelly River. Anderson had been a fisherman on the coast and the partners were able to buy a fishnet on credit. They set up ten miles below Dawson and brought in the first fresh salmon to the town.((John Gould, "Percy deWolfe: The Iron Man and the Race." //The Klondike Sun// (Dawson), 14 March 2000.)) They established a fishing business in the summer and a freighting business to the Fortymile mines in the winter. They built a roadhouse at Sixteenmile River and two years later they constructed Halfway House, halfway between Dawson and Forty Mile, where Percy lived for many years. They stampeded to Fairbanks in 1903 but returned to Dawson in 1904 and resumed their fishing, freighting, hunting, and woodcutting business.((Carol Livermore, “Percy DeWolfe ‘Iron Man of the Yukon’.” //The Beaver,// Autumn 1977: 16 – 20; Elva Scott, //Historic Eagle and it’s People.// Eagle City, Alaska. June 1992: 105-106.)) | ||
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