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 John David Murray (d. 1933)
-John Murray began piloting riverboats on the Stikine River when he was in his teens. He was the captain on the sternwheeler //Canadian// on the Yukon River and in 1899 he built Murray’s Roadhouse at the junction of the Ridge Road and a spur road to Grand Forks in the Bonanza Creek valley.((Need source)) J.H. Downing applied for a liquor license for the Murray Road House on the Ridge Road sometime between 1899 and 1901.((Indexes to Applications for Liquor Licenses, 1898-1901. Yukon Archives, YRG 1 Series 1. Vol. 75 Microfilm.))
+John Murray began piloting riverboats on the Stikine River when he was in his teens. Murray was the captain of the //Bonanza King// in 1906 when his son Phillip was killed in an explosion on the steamer //Columbian.//((No blame was assigned over the deaths.(("Verdict Given." //Weekly Star// (Whitehorse), 26 October 1906.)) He was the master of the //White Seal// in 1907 and captain of the sternwheeler //Keno// in 1933 when he died on board at Stewart River.((Jerry E. Green, //Yukon Riverboat Captains.// 2019 website: http://www.users.muohio.edu/greenje/))
-In July 1902, John C. Murray and Donald Ross bought five acres on the Ridge Road at the intersection of the new road from Hunker Creek to Green Gulch. The location may never have been surveyed, and the Gold Commissioner considered it abandoned in 1913. There is no evidence of occupation.((Yukon Archives, GOV 1633, f6397. Letter from the Gold Commissioner, 5 December 1913.))
-Murray was the captain of the //Bonanza King// in 1906 when his son Phillip was killed in an explosion on the steamer //Columbian.// (Check source:  Ida May Goulter, "History of Carmacks." September 1977. Heritage Branch files. 77/8))
-Murray was the master of the //White Seal// in 1907 and captain of the sternwheeler //Keno// in 1933 when he died on board at Stewart River.((Jerry E. Green, //Yukon Riverboat Captains.// 2019 website: http://www.users.muohio.edu/greenje/))