Yukon who is who

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Frank Dunleavy
	
Frank Dunleavy was described by Mounted Police Superintendent Steele as a professional agitator from Australia. Dunleavy wrote to James Walsh to complain about the NWMP and accused the members at Tagish of taking bribes for quick service. He accused Constable William Richards of soliciting orders so Corporal Dixon would pilot boats through White Horse Rapids. He said that Constable Fyffe had fired shots across the bow of boats that did not stop at the NWMP post. He also reported that two men drowned at Big Salmon who would have been saved if the police had done their duty. None of these accusations were found to have any validity.((Jim Wallace, //Forty Mile to Bonanza: The North-West Mounted Police in the Klondike Gold Rush.// Calgary: Bunker to Bunker Publishing. 2000: 106.))
	
Dunleavy was a former South African miner. He organized a miner's meeting in Dawson on July 12th, 1898 complaining that a meeting on the 9th had been too mild and with no free discussion. A reported 3,000 people attended, and the organizers censured virtually all government regulations and called for a committee to carry the grievances to Commissioner Walsh and Fawcett. A fight broke out during the appointment of the committee and the meeting was dispersed by the NWMP.  The organizers of the original meeting persuaded Dunleavy to join them and they continued to stage mass gatherings through July and August. At Dunleavy's insistence, the committee charged with overseeing official behaviour in the district organized a permanent association for self-protection, and the Miner's Association was created on August 12th. It was decided that only those holding free miner's certificates could join, and 137 members were acquired by October. During the October meeting, the Miner's Association passed a resolution calling on Ottawa to provide the Yukon with representation in the House of Commons. It also resolved to request the addition of two elected members to the Yukon Council. Through the winter of 1898/99, the political climate cooled and the Association became more of a social club and was disbanded by the spring. The federal government did act on the requests in 1899, but when they were not implemented by February 1900 another mass meeting was held to try and force an election. A Citizen's Committee was chosen to deal with the Yukon Council.((Thomas Stone, //Miner's Justice: Migration, Law and order on the Alaska-Yukon Frontier, 1873-1902.// American University Studies Series XI, Vol. 34, New York: Peter Lang, 1988: 188.))