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 The firm of McLennan and McFeely held a mortgage on the steamers //Mona// and //Glenora// when they burned in July 1902. They had been warned by an anonymous letter that the vessels would be destroyed. The boats’ caretaker was taken into custody but in the end the owner, Joseph Genelle, was charged and sent to jail for ten years as he profited from the insurance. ((Jim Wallace, //Forty Mile to Bonanza: The North-West Mounted Police in the Klondike Gold Rush.// Calgary: Bunker to Bunker Publishing. 2000: 212-13.))
-Before Dawson’s second municipal election, McLennan received a petition with several hundred signatures asking him to run for mayor.((Hal J. Guest, “A History of the City of Dawson, Yukon Territory, 1896 – 1920.” Parks Canada Microfiche Report Series 7, 1980s: 83.)) McLennan was elected as the second mayor of Dawson in 1903 and served one term but did not seek re-election. He left Dawson in early 1904 and the company continued operating without him. ((Ronald Greene, “Robert Purves McLennan.” //Dictionary of Canadian Biography,// 2018 website: www.biographi.ca/en/bio/mclennan_robert_purves_15E.html))
+Before Dawson’s second municipal election, McLennan received a petition with several hundred signatures asking him to run for mayor.((Hal J. Guest, “A History of the City of Dawson, Yukon Territory, 1896 – 1920.” Parks Canada Microfiche Report Series 7, 1980s: 83.)) McLennan was elected as the second mayor of Dawson in 1903 and served one term but did not seek re-election. He left Dawson in early 1904 and the company continued operating without him. ((Ronald Greene, “Robert Purves McLennan.” //Dictionary of Canadian Biography,// 2018 website: www.biographi.ca/en/bio/mclennan_robert_purves_15E.html)) A //Dawson Daily News// article says that McLennan was the mayor of Dawson until it's charter was revoked. McLennan visited Dawson in June 1905 and stated that the few remining business industries in town were on a solid basis and yielding good returns. On his way back outside, Robert McLennan stayed in Whitehorse with his brother Fred, collector of customs.(("R.P. M'Lennan on Dawson." //Dawson Daily News// (Dawson), 28 June 1905.))
 McLennan and McFeely purchased land on Cordova Street in Vancouver and in 1928, after the partners’ deaths, the firm became known as McLennan, McFeely and Prior Ltd. The building remained a landmark for Vancouver residents into the 1960s.((Ronald Greene, “Robert Purves McLennan.” //Dictionary of Canadian Biography,// 2018 website: www.biographi.ca/en/bio/mclennan_robert_purves_15E.html))