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 William Scouse (1862 – 1918)
-William Scouse was born in Scotland. He was a coal miner there before moving to America in 1880 and working in the Pennsylvania coal mines. He made his way across the continent and worked in Kansas, Washington, Nanaimo, and the Queen Charlotte Islands [Haida Gwaii]. In 1896, he and three partners were in the central Yukon when they heard about the gold strike on Bonanza Creek.((Ken Coates & Bill Morrison, //The Sinking of the Princess Sophia.// Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1990: 10-11.))
+William Scouse was a Scottish coal miner. He came to America in 1880 and worked in the Pennsylvania coal mines. He spent time in Kansas, Washington, Nanaimo and the Queen Charlette Islands [Haida Gwaii]. In 1896, he and three partners arrived in the Yukon River valley and were in central Yukon when gold was found on Bonanza Creek.((Ken Coates and Bill Morrison, //The Sinking of the Princess Sophia: Taking the North Down with Her.// Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1990: 11.))
+Four Scots coal miners from Nanaimo, British Columbia staked claim numbers 14, 15 ,16 and 17 on Eldorado. There were three brothers named Scouse and their partner John [Black Jack] Wilkinson. They abandoned claims 16 and 17, and they proved to be among the richest in the gold fields.((Pierre Berton, //Kings of the Klondike.// McClelland & Stewart Inc., 1993: 20-21.)) Scouse was the first miner to haul up a bucketful of gold-bearing gravel from his claim on Eldorado Creek. The pay dirt was worth $57, a month's wages for a southern worker.((Betty O'Keefe and Ian MacDonald, //The Final Voyage of the Princess Sophia: Did they all have to die?// Surrey BC: Heritage House, 1998: 58.))
+Scouse owned Claim No.14 Eldorado with Bill Young, Jim McNamee, and Alex McDonald. He also owned Claim No. 15 with William Sloan.((Walter R. Hamilton, //The Yukon Story.// Vancouver: Mitchell Press Ltd., 1964: 239.)) His diary tells of he and his partners sinking a shaft three metres down through black muck at minus 40 degrees. On 4 December, the weather was mild with a little snow, and Scouse records pans of pay dirt, some worth as much as $20. The next day there was pan worth $45. This would be almost $3,000 in 2016 dollars. On 6 December, twelve pans totaled $272.78 in gold ($17,000 in 2016), and on the next day the best pan was worth $122.18 (almost $8,000 in 2016).((Forrest D. Pass, “Unearthing Eldorado.”// Canada’s History,// 2019 website:   https://www.canadashistory.ca/explore/arts,-culture-society/unearthing-eldorado))
+William Sloan went on to become British Columbia’s Minister of Mines and Scouse acquired financial interests in Dawson and Seattle. After Scouse married in 1902, he spent summers in the north and winters with his wife [Zidania] in Washington state.((Betty O'Keefe and Ian MacDonald, //The Final Voyage of the Princess Sophia: Did they all have to die?// Surrey BC: Heritage House, 1998: 58.))
-Scouse’s companions in the north were from Nanaimo. Scouse, Big Jack Wilkinson, Thomas Flack, and William Sloan (who became the Minister of Mines) were among the first to stake claims on one of the richest creeks in the Klondike.((The Maritime Museum of British Columbia, //SS Princess Sophia: Those Who Perished.// 2018: 96.)) Scouse staked Claim Number 5 on Eldorado Creek and in 1918 was still making ten thousand dollars a year from his properties. After he married in 1902, he travelled south every year to spend the winter with his wife in Seattle.((Ken Coates & Bill Morrison, //The Sinking of the Princess Sophia.// Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1990: 10-11.))
+In 1918, Scouse was still making $10,000 a year from his properties. He went south on the //Princess Sophia// in the fall of 1918 and drowned when the ship sunk.((Ken Coates and Bill Morrison, //The Sinking of the Princess Sophia: Taking the North Down with Her.// Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1990: 11.)) In 2016 the Canadian Museum of History acquired Scouse’s diary, his personal and business papers, and a collection of jewelry with raw gold nuggets. Scouse’s diary ends in 1896.((Forrest D. Pass, “Unearthing Eldorado.”// Canada’s History,// 2019 website:   https://www.canadashistory.ca/explore/arts,-culture-society/unearthing-eldorado))
-Scouse had investments in Dawson and Seattle and was known as a man of integrity and geniality. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge in Seattle.((The Maritime Museum of British Columbia, //SS Princess Sophia: Those Who Perished.// 2018: 96.)) Scouse drowned when the //Princess Sophia// sank in the Lynn Canal.((Ken Coates & Bill Morrison, //The Sinking of the Princess Sophia.// Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1990: 10-11.))