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George Brown (d. 1942)
	
George Brown and his wife Hazel, Courtland Mack’s daughter, operated the Carmacks Roadhouse, circa 1911-12.((Yukon Archives, Back and Bee family fonds 90/19 #85.)) The Mack brothers moved the old Model Roadhouse, on the Nordenskold River, about a mile upstream to Carmacks. George and his wife ran the roadhouse and lived in a small house near the bridge. She died young [in 1925].((Helen Brooks Coulter in conversation with Pat Ellis (MacBride Museum), 4 March 1992.))
	
Brown’s farm was on the Nordenskiold River.((Eva Billy interviewed by Kathy Sam and Vera Charlie. //Carmacks Oral Histories,// 8 June 1987.)) It was on the right side of the road across from the roadhouse and the Nordenskold River.((Yukon Archives, Clyde Motors Ltd fonds, George Brown photo. 82/562 #2.)) In 1919, Brown had ten acres under cultivation with two acres yielding fourteen tons of saleable potatoes. One acre of barley yielded two tons of green feed, one acre of oats yielded two tons of green feed, two acres of turnips yielded six tons, one acre of sundries including one and a half tons of carrots, a half ton of cabbage, and a few hundred beets, cauliflower and peas. He also had three acres of summer fallow.((GOV 1660 file 31171))

In 1924 Brown expanded his farm by adding about thirty head of cattle and expected the herd to grow, He has an abundance of hay to feed the animals, and her grows and sells potatoes and root crops.((//Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 5 September 1924.)) In April 1925, Brown’s herd of cattle increased by seven head.((//Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 24 April 1925.)) By 1927, he was willing to trade meat for vegetables.((Eva Billy interviewed by Kathy Sam and Vera Charlie. //Carmacks Oral Histories,// 8 June 1987.)) 

In 1931, Hugh Bostock stayed at the Nordenskiold Roadhouse, run by “old” George Brown and kept by Mrs. Waugh and her daughter. Across the road were some fallow farmland that had once yielded good crops but with ground that Bostock thought was too dry to cultivate.((H.S. Bostock, //Pack Horse Tracks – recollections of a geologists life in British Columbia and the Yukon 1924 – 1954.// Yukon Geoscience Forum, 1990: 68.)) Brown was still farming in 1934.((Yukon Archives, Back and Bee family fonds 90/19 #266.))