Yukon who is who

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Thomas George Bragg
	
George Bragg was a graduate in Classics and Moderns from the University of Toronto. He had six years’ experience teaching in Ontario before he was appointed principal of the Dawson Public School in 1903. There were 261 students with five students at the first-year high school level. The Ontario course of study was followed at the high school level so students could continue at the University of Toronto.((Marjorie E. Almstrom, //A Century of Schooling: Education in the Yukon 1861 – 1961.// Whitehorse, 1991: 87, footnote 39.)) 

Bragg became the Superintendent of Schools in 1906 and was the mainstay of Yukon’s early education system. The education provided in Dawson was very good, and many students went on to Toronto, Harvard, or Stanford. Bragg was a full-time teacher for all of that time as well. He resigned in 1919 to take a less complex position outside the territory.((Marjorie E. Almstrom, //A Century of Schooling: Education in the Yukon 1861 – 1961.// Whitehorse, 1991: 87, footnote 39, 104, 109.))