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| Totty may have remained at Forty Mile after his marriage. He was in charge, with the Bishop, in 1897. Children were in attendance at the school and a large number of First Nation congregants attended regular services.((“Letter from the Right Reverend Bishop Bompas.” Fort Yukon, 4 August 1897. Yukon Archives, PAM 1898-130.)) | Totty may have remained at Forty Mile after his marriage. He was in charge, with the Bishop, in 1897. Children were in attendance at the school and a large number of First Nation congregants attended regular services.((“Letter from the Right Reverend Bishop Bompas.” Fort Yukon, 4 August 1897. Yukon Archives, PAM 1898-130.)) |
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| In 1898, Totty succeeded Frederick Flewelling, who had been ministering at Moosehide from 1896 to 1898.((Manuscript "Summery of the Anglican Church in Yukon" by Archdeacon Allan Haldenby of Dawson in 1957 and updated by Lee Sax and Bishop Ronald Ferris in 1991.)) Bishop Bompas was concerned about the health of his congregation during the gold rush and he moved the seat of his diocese from Forty Mile to Moosehide and he stayed there for the winter of 1899/1900.((Heather Green, “The Tr’ondek Hwech’in and the Great Upheaval: Mining Colonialism, and Environmental Change in the Klondike, 1890-1940. Thesis for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy for the Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta, 2018: 145-146.)) Bompas was established in Carcross by 1900.((Craig Mishler and William E. Simone, //Han People of the River.// University of Alaska press, 2004: 11.)) | In 1898, Totty succeeded Frederick Flewelling at Moosehide. Flewelling had been ministering [in the Dawson area] from 1896 to 1898.((Manuscript "Summery of the Anglican Church in Yukon" by Archdeacon Allan Haldenby of Dawson in 1957 and updated by Lee Sax and Bishop Ronald Ferris in 1991.)) Bishop Bompas was concerned about the health of his congregation during the gold rush and he moved the seat of his diocese from Forty Mile to Moosehide and he stayed there for the winter of 1899/1900.((Heather Green, “The Tr’ondek Hwech’in and the Great Upheaval: Mining Colonialism, and Environmental Change in the Klondike, 1890-1940. Thesis for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy for the Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta, 2018: 145-146.)) Bompas was established in Carcross by 1900.((Craig Mishler and William E. Simone, //Han People of the River.// University of Alaska press, 2004: 11.)) |
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| In 1907, Totty requested whitewash and two brushes to disinfect the cabins of those in Moosehide who had contracted tuberculosis. Bishop Stringer visited the community in 1913, prepared to lecture on the benefits of cleanliness, and was surprised to find the community cleaner than Dawson.((Heather Green, “The Tr’ondek Hwech’in and the Great Upheaval: Mining Colonialism, and Environmental Change in the Klondike, 1890-1940. Thesis for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy for the Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta, 2018: 151-52.)) | In 1907, Totty requested whitewash and two brushes to disinfect the cabins of those in Moosehide who had contracted tuberculosis. Bishop Stringer visited the community in 1913, prepared to lecture on the benefits of cleanliness, and was surprised to find the community cleaner than Dawson.((Heather Green, “The Tr’ondek Hwech’in and the Great Upheaval: Mining Colonialism, and Environmental Change in the Klondike, 1890-1940. Thesis for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy for the Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta, 2018: 151-52.)) |
