Yukon who is who

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George Baker (d. 1918)
	
George Baker arrived in the Yukon in 1898.((The Maritime Museum of British Columbia, //SS Princess Sophia: Those Who Perished.// 2018: 39.)) He was temporarily in charge of Jack McQuesten’s Forty Mile store when Antone Stander went downriver from Dawson to get food and tools.((Yukon Archives, William Douglas Johns Journal, page 166. Coutts 78/69, Box F-89, Folder #20.)) Stander was an original staker of Claim No. 6 on Eldorado Creek.((Original Locators Bonanza & Eldorado.” Yukon Archives, D. E. Griffith, “Forty-Milers on Parade.” Coutts coll. 78/69 MSS 087 f.5.)) Jack McQuesten would have given Stander the supplies as a grubstake, but Baker did not trust that Stander would re-pay his debt.((Yukon Archives, William Douglas Johns Journal, page 166. Coutts 78/69, Box F-89, Folder #20.)) Author Tappan Adney commented that both stores at Forty Mile attempted to get rid of the credit system after 1892, but neither company strictly enforced the rule.((Tappan Adney, The Klondike Stampede. UBC Press, 1994: 273.)) Baker refused Stander his outfit unless Clarence Berry, a friend of Baker’s and a gambler at Bill McFee’s saloon, guaranteed it. Berry agreed to do this for half an interest in the claim.((Yukon Archives, William Douglas Johns Journal, page 166. Coutts 78/69, Box F-89, Folder #20.)) The claim turned out to be very rich.
	
Baker ran the Broadway Restaurant in Dawson starting about 1915. He was a member of the Yukon Order of Pioneers and was once a prominent member of the Moose Lodge and in charge of the club rooms. He purchased a ticket for Vancouver on the //Princess Sophia// and drowned when the ship sank in the Lynn Canal. He was survived by family in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.((The Maritime Museum of British Columbia, //SS Princess Sophia: Those Who Perished.// 2018: 39.))