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| John Douglas Moodie. (1848 - 1947) | John Douglas Moodie. (1848 - 1947) |
| John Moodie was born in Edinburgh, Scotland and lived in Ottawa and Rapid City, South Dakota, before joining the North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) in 1884. He served in the Riel Rebellion and was then stationed out of Calgary in 1886-1887.((Alberta Provincial Archives Collection Database)) Clifford Sifton ordered the NWMP to explore an all-Canadian route to the Klondike, as suggested by Inspector Constantine. Sifton wanted a route that could be opened as a pack trail/wagon road to the Yukon. Commissioner Lawrence Herchmer assigned the task to Inspector John Moodie and thought he could go and come back in one winter.((Jim Wallace, //Forty Mile to Bonanza: The North-West Mounted Police in the Klondike Gold Rush.// Calgary: Bunker to Bunker Publishing, 2000: 116-18.)) | |
| | John Moodie was born in Edinburgh, Scotland and lived in Ottawa and Rapid City, South Dakota, before joining the North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) in 1884. He served in the Riel Rebellion and was then stationed out of Calgary in 1886-1887.((Alberta Provincial Archives Collection Database)) Clifford Sifton ordered the NWMP to explore an all-Canadian route to the Klondike, as suggested by Inspector Constantine. Sifton wanted a route that could be opened as a pack trail/wagon road to the Yukon. Commissioner Lawrence Herchmer assigned the task to Inspector John Moodie and thought he could go and come back in one winter.((Jim Wallace, //Forty Mile to Bonanza: The North-West Mounted Police in the Klondike Gold Rush.// Calgary: Bunker to Bunker Publishing, 2000: 116-18.)) |
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| Inspector Moodie left Edmonton on 4 September 1897 with Constable Francis F. Fitzgerald and three special constables, Richard Hardisty, son of the Senator and former Hudson's Bay Company Chief Factor, Frank Lafferty, and Henry Tobin. The latter were both graduates of the Royal Military College. They had twenty-five pack animals and six riding horses under Metis packer Baptiste Pepin. Moodie did not consider Pepin to be competent. They reached the HBC post of Fort St. John on 1 November and Hardisty stayed there. Moodie hired a First Nation guide who knew the route to Fort Graham but he left after a month and returned to Fort St. John. Shortly after Christmas, the party ran out of food and they killed the horses for meat. They arrived at Fort Graham on 18 January 1898 and stayed there until the spring. The party left Fort Graham on 1 April and headed for Stuart Lake. They reached the Pelly River and purchased a leaky folding canoe which they replaced as soon as they could. They were stopped by solid ice on 22 October. They cached their supplies and proceeded on foot for another thirty miles to Fort Selkirk. Moodie sent Henry Tobin to Dawson on the last steamer of the season with a message reporting their safe arrival. Moodie submitted a report recommending that the Edmonton route not be used considering the ease and speed of the Chilkoot and White Pass.((Jim Wallace, //Forty Mile to Bonanza: The North-West Mounted Police in the Klondike Gold Rush.// Calgary: Bunker to Bunker Publishing, 2000: 116-18.)) | Inspector Moodie left Edmonton on 4 September 1897 with Constable Francis F. Fitzgerald and three special constables, Richard Hardisty, son of the Senator and former Hudson's Bay Company Chief Factor, Frank Lafferty, and Henry Tobin. The latter were both graduates of the Royal Military College. They had twenty-five pack animals and six riding horses under Metis packer Baptiste Pepin. Moodie did not consider Pepin to be competent. They reached the HBC post of Fort St. John on 1 November and Hardisty stayed there. Moodie hired a First Nation guide who knew the route to Fort Graham but he left after a month and returned to Fort St. John. Shortly after Christmas, the party ran out of food and they killed the horses for meat. They arrived at Fort Graham on 18 January 1898 and stayed there until the spring. The party left Fort Graham on 1 April and headed for Stuart Lake. They reached the Pelly River and purchased a leaky folding canoe which they replaced as soon as they could. They were stopped by solid ice on 22 October. They cached their supplies and proceeded on foot for another thirty miles to Fort Selkirk. Moodie sent Henry Tobin to Dawson on the last steamer of the season with a message reporting their safe arrival. Moodie submitted a report recommending that the Edmonton route not be used considering the ease and speed of the Chilkoot and White Pass.((Jim Wallace, //Forty Mile to Bonanza: The North-West Mounted Police in the Klondike Gold Rush.// Calgary: Bunker to Bunker Publishing, 2000: 116-18.)) |
