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| John Pringle was over six-foot-tall and had a commanding personality. He volunteered as a Presbyterian missionary in 1897 and crossed the Glenora Trail from Fort Wrangel to Atlin where he arrived in the winter of 1898-99. He met Katherine Ryan in Glenora in 1898 and persuaded her to go sixty miles up the Stikine where her nursing skills were needed at the Atlin Camp. She spent a horrible winter with Pringle and others before continuing her trip to the Klondike.((J. Clinton Morrison, //Chasing a Dream: Prince Edward Islanders in the Klondike.// Summerside, PEI: Crescent Isle Publishers, 2004: 138-142.)) | John Pringle was over six-foot-tall and had a commanding personality. He volunteered as a Presbyterian missionary in 1897 and crossed the Glenora Trail from Fort Wrangel to Atlin where he arrived in the winter of 1898-99. He met Katherine Ryan in Glenora in 1898 and persuaded her to go sixty miles up the Stikine where her nursing skills were needed at the Atlin Camp. She spent a horrible winter with Pringle and others before continuing her trip to the Klondike.((J. Clinton Morrison, //Chasing a Dream: Prince Edward Islanders in the Klondike.// Summerside, PEI: Crescent Isle Publishers, 2004: 138-142.)) | ||
| - | John stayed in Atlin for two years and established | + | John stayed in Atlin for two years and established St. Andrew’s Hospital. He made a gruelling winter trip to Wrangel and had to eat the webbing on his snowshoes. He achieved tremendous popularity in the Stikine River and Teslin Lake areas but headed to the Klondike in 1901. On the trip, he was in a fight with a teamster who was abusing his animal and his reputation preceded him to Dawson. Kensington’s James “Big Jim” Pendergast first met John Pringle when Jim arrived in Dawson in 1906 and they became fast friends. Jim referred to Pringle as an example of militant Christianity and Pringle became known as the Hobo Preacher because of his shabby attire.((J. Clinton Morrison, //Chasing a Dream: Prince Edward Islanders in the Klondike.// Summerside, PEI: Crescent Isle Publishers, 2004: 138-142.)) |
| Pringle was elected to the territorial council in 1903. He complained to Laurier in private letters about dancehalls and prostitutes in Dawson. Not daunted by his lack of success he began talking to the eastern Canadian press about Dawson immorality and charged that local authorities had an interest in laxity. In response, the sale of liquor in dancehalls was prohibited and the last one closed in 1908. The Presbyterian church approved of Pringle' | Pringle was elected to the territorial council in 1903. He complained to Laurier in private letters about dancehalls and prostitutes in Dawson. Not daunted by his lack of success he began talking to the eastern Canadian press about Dawson immorality and charged that local authorities had an interest in laxity. In response, the sale of liquor in dancehalls was prohibited and the last one closed in 1908. The Presbyterian church approved of Pringle' | ||
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