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| In June 1924, Fox left the Yukon for a year to travel and find a publisher for his book //The People on Other Planets.//((“Well-known people leave for outside.” //Dawson Daily News// (Dawson), 21 June 1924.)) It was difficult to find one willing to print it for his few thousand dollars but it helped that he had advance orders.((“R.A. Fox tells of his troubles with publisher.” //Dawson Daily News// (Dawson), 4 March 1925.)) Fox returned to Canada in 1925 and started a lecture tour with “The Fulfilment of the Prophecy of the World’s Tribulations.”((“The Universal Spiritualist.” //The Province// (Vancouver), 7 March 1925.)) He was back in Dawson in July with a promised movie contract for $500,000 to be completed in 1926.((“Old timer relates incidents.” //The Dawson News// (Dawson), 28 July 1925.)) | In June 1924, Fox left the Yukon for a year to travel and find a publisher for his book //The People on Other Planets.//((“Well-known people leave for outside.” //Dawson Daily News// (Dawson), 21 June 1924.)) It was difficult to find one willing to print it for his few thousand dollars but it helped that he had advance orders.((“R.A. Fox tells of his troubles with publisher.” //Dawson Daily News// (Dawson), 4 March 1925.)) Fox returned to Canada in 1925 and started a lecture tour with “The Fulfilment of the Prophecy of the World’s Tribulations.”((“The Universal Spiritualist.” //The Province// (Vancouver), 7 March 1925.)) He was back in Dawson in July with a promised movie contract for $500,000 to be completed in 1926.((“Old timer relates incidents.” //The Dawson News// (Dawson), 28 July 1925.)) |
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| Richard Fox was accepted as a member of the Yukon Order of Pioneers in 1919.((“Are added to the pioneer membership.” //The Dawson Daily News// (Dawson), 20 August 1919.)) In 1926, he presented the Yukon Order of Pioneers with one of his fine mammoth ivory gavels.((“Pioneers have busy time at regular session.” //The Dawson News// (Dawson), 6 February 1926.)) Fox was stilling living in Dawson 1930 and was a member of the International Highway Association.((“International Highway Association of Yukon.” //The Dawson News// (Dawson), 20 May 1930.)) In 1931, a Vancouver newspaper printed Fox’s directions for safe northern travel in the skies and on the ground.((“Dawson Old-timer points out faults in Burke party program.” //Vancouver Sun// (Vancouver), 8 January 1931.)) In 1934, Fox was again writing to the Dawson newspaper about a trip he took to Europe and Russia.((“Impressions of Russia as gleaned from letters from R.A. Fox.” //The Dawson News// (Dawson), 10 February 1934.)) This time he may have really travelled in body as well as mind as he was seen coming back north through Whitehorse.((//Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 18 May 1934.)) | Richard Fox was accepted as a member of the Yukon Order of Pioneers in 1919.((“Are added to the pioneer membership.” //The Dawson Daily News// (Dawson), 20 August 1919.)) In 1926, he presented the Yukon Order of Pioneers with one of his fine mammoth ivory gavels.((“Pioneers have busy time at regular session.” //The Dawson News// (Dawson), 6 February 1926.)) Fox was still living in Dawson 1930 and was a member of the International Highway Association.((“International Highway Association of Yukon.” //The Dawson News// (Dawson), 20 May 1930.)) In 1931, a Vancouver newspaper printed Fox’s directions for safe northern travel in the skies and on the ground.((“Dawson Old-timer points out faults in Burke party program.” //Vancouver Sun// (Vancouver), 8 January 1931.)) In 1934, Fox was again writing to the Dawson newspaper about a trip he took to Europe and Russia.((“Impressions of Russia as gleaned from letters from R.A. Fox.” //The Dawson News// (Dawson), 10 February 1934.)) This time he may have really travelled in body as well as mind as he was seen coming back north through Whitehorse.((//Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 18 May 1934.)) |
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| In 1937, Fox was still behaving in a quirky manner, such as panning for gold on the main street in Dawson, and making useful objects out of mammoth ivory.(“Dawson Proves to be no ghost city.” //The Lethbridge Herald// (Lethbridge), 18 September 1937.)) He remained outspoken on several topics including agriculture and graft in the government, and in the 1930s added opinions on the benefits of a highway connecting the Yukon to southern transportation routes. In November 1938 and January 1944, he connected several of his favourite topics stating drought-stricken farmers would do well to relocate along a northern highway.((‘Government officials only obstacle to Alaska Highway.’” //The Vancouver Sun// (Vancouver), 12 November 1938; “The Alaska Road.” //The Vancouver Sun// (Vancouver), 4 January 1944.)) Just when you think the man is making sense, he veers away from science. Fox’s 1925 book, //The People on Other Planets,// is dedicated to people of advanced thought and to scientists and inventors not hampered by prejudice or so-called impossibilities.((Thanks to Kathy Jones Gates for collecting and sharing newspaper clippings and other information about the fascinating life of Richard A. Fox. Kathy intends to donate the primary material to the Yukon Archives.)) | In 1937, Fox was still behaving in a quirky manner, such as panning for gold on the main street in Dawson, and making useful objects out of mammoth ivory.(“Dawson Proves to be no ghost city.” //The Lethbridge Herald// (Lethbridge), 18 September 1937.)) He remained outspoken on several topics including agriculture and graft in the government, and in the 1930s added opinions on the benefits of a highway connecting the Yukon to southern transportation routes. In November 1938 and January 1944, he connected several of his favourite topics stating drought-stricken farmers would do well to relocate along a northern highway.((‘Government officials only obstacle to Alaska Highway.’” //The Vancouver Sun// (Vancouver), 12 November 1938; “The Alaska Road.” //The Vancouver Sun// (Vancouver), 4 January 1944.)) Just when you think the man is making sense, he veers away from science. Fox’s 1925 book, //The People on Other Planets,// is dedicated to people of advanced thought and to scientists and inventors not hampered by prejudice or so-called impossibilities.((Thanks to Kathy Jones Gates for collecting and sharing newspaper clippings and other information about the fascinating life of Richard A. Fox. Kathy intends to donate the primary material to the Yukon Archives.)) |
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