| Frederick Langholtz and Nels Neilson operated a freighting and wood supply business at 106 Strickland Street in Whitehorse from 1912 to the early 1920s. A log structure on the property was used as a stable and blacksmith shop.((Yukon Historical & Museums Association, “Langholtz Cabin and Fox Pens.” Heritage Yukon 2019 website: https://www.heritageyukon.ca/attractions/historical-buildings/langholtz-cabin-fox-pens)) Fred Langholtz married [Edna (Bigger) Piper] when Langholtz had a dray business in the store later taken over by Mr. Sewell.((//The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), July 1965. Yukon Archives microfilm, Volume 56, Number 28.)) | Frederick Langholtz and Nels Neilson operated a freighting and wood supply business at 106 Strickland Street in Whitehorse from 1912 to the early 1920s. A log structure on the property was used as a stable and blacksmith shop.((Yukon Historical & Museums Association, “Langholtz Cabin and Fox Pens.” Heritage Yukon 2019 website: https://www.heritageyukon.ca/attractions/historical-buildings/langholtz-cabin-fox-pens)) Fred Langholtz married [Edna (Bigger) Piper] when Langholtz had a dray business in the store later taken over by Mr. Sewell.((//The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), July 1965. Yukon Archives microfilm, Volume 56, Number 28.)) They lived in a waterfront cabin across the Yukon River from Whitehorse.((Dianne Green, "The 'Unsinkable' Babe Richards" in Sam Holloway, editor, //The Yukon Reader,// Volume Two, 2024: 41-54.)) |
| Edna Bigger was the daughter of H.J. Bigger who was one of Whitehorse's first merchants. Edna had three daughters from a previous marriage to John Piper who died of tuberculosis in 1902. Edna's daughters were Bernadine Piper (married T.C. Richards 1918), Nellie Piper (married John Rosenberg 1912) and Mamie Piper (married A.R. McDougall 1917).((Posting in Facebook Yukon History and Abandoned Places from Ted Wiebe. Information may be from the Yukon Archives, Moccasin Telegraph, Fifty-Eighth Edition, April 18, 2004 created by Sherron Jones.)) When Bernadine married T.C. Richards he had been the manager of the Whitehorse branch of P. Burns Co. for three years. They were married by the Anglican minister Rev. A.C. Field of Carcross and lived in a house on Elliot Street between Second and Third recently vacated by R. H. and Mrs. Palmer. Nellie May Piper, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Langholtz, married John W. A. Rosenburg at the home of the officiating clergyman Rev. Father Rivet of Whitehorse. Their home was the Alguire house in the northern part of Whitehorse. Mamie Piper married A.R. McDougall and Rev. Father Chas Wolf performed the ceremony. The couple lived at Little Windy Arm in the Conrad district where Mr. McDougall was mining.((Posting in Facebook Yukon History and Abandoned Places from Ted Wiebe. Information from articles in the //Whitehorse Star.//)) | Edna Bigger was the daughter of H.J. Bigger who was one of Whitehorse's first merchants.((Posting in Facebook Yukon History and Abandoned Places from Ted Wiebe. Information may be from the Yukon Archives, Moccasin Telegraph, Fifty-Eighth Edition, April 18, 2004 created by Sherron Jones.)) Edna and two sisters attended the Lambert Street school. ((Dianne Green, "The 'Unsinkable' Babe Richards" in Sam Holloway, editor, //The Yukon Reader,// Volume Two, 2024: 41-54.)) Edna had three daughters from a previous marriage to John Piper who died of tuberculosis in 1902. Edna's daughters were Bernadine Piper (married T.C. Richards 1918), Nellie Piper (married John Rosenberg 1912) and Mamie Piper (married A.R. McDougall 1917).((Posting in Facebook Yukon History and Abandoned Places from Ted Wiebe. Information may be from the Yukon Archives, Moccasin Telegraph, Fifty-Eighth Edition, April 18, 2004 created by Sherron Jones.)) When Bernadine married T.C. Richards he had been the manager of the Whitehorse branch of P. Burns Co. for three years. They were married by the Anglican minister Rev. A.C. Field of Carcross and lived in a house on Elliot Street between Second and Third recently vacated by R. H. and Mrs. Palmer. Nellie May Piper, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Langholtz, married John W. A. Rosenburg at the home of the officiating clergyman Rev. Father Rivet of Whitehorse. Their home was the Alguire house in the northern part of Whitehorse. Mamie Piper married A.R. McDougall and Rev. Father Chas Wolf performed the ceremony. The couple lived at Little Windy Arm in the Conrad district where Mr. McDougall was mining.((Posting in Facebook Yukon History and Abandoned Places from Ted Wiebe. Information from articles in the //Whitehorse Star.//)) |
