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Frederick Fairweather Flewelling (1872 – 1914)
	
Frederick Flewelling was born in Rothsay, Kings, New Brunswick to parents Robert and Caroline A. Dickson Flewelling.((“Rev Frederick Fairweather Flewelling.” //Find A Grave,// 2020 website: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/106323010/frederick-fairweather-flewelling)) He taught school before he went to work with the Canadian National Railroad as a telegraph operator. When his sister moved to the Boston area, he joined her and worked with the New York, New Haven and Hartford Rail Road. He trained as a missionary between 1889 and [1896] when he was recruited to work in the Yukon.((Reverend Frederick Fairweather Flewelling,” 2018 website: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/106323010/frederick-fairweather-flewelling.)) Flewelling was recruited by Isaac Stringer who met Flewelling in Toronto while Stringer was on a missionary tour in the east. Stringer was a missionary working with the Inuit in northern Canada but he was commissioned by Bishop Bompas to secure more volunteers for work in the Diocese of Selkirk.((F. A. Peake, //The Bishop Who Ate His Boots: The Biography of Isaac O. Stringer.// Yukon Church Heritage Society, 2001:45.)) 

Flewelling taught and preached to the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in at Tr’ochëk and Moosehide for three years. He was ordained as a deacon during that time.((Reverend Frederick Fairweather Flewelling,” 2018 website: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/106323010/frederick-fairweather-flewelling.)) He kept a diary from May 8, 1896 to June 21, 1897. It describes his journey to St. Michael and up the Yukon River to the mission at Forty Mile, and his experience and emotions while establishing the mission at the mouth of the Klondike River. A typed transcription of the diary is held at Yukon Archives.((Yukon Archives, Frederick Flewelling collection description, MSS 13 (82/176.)) 
	
Flewelling arrived at Tr’ochëk in 1896, the same year that gold was discovered on Bonanza Creek. After a trip, he returned to Tr’ochëk on 29 May 1897 to find Dawson overrun with gold seekers. The nearest unclaimed land was about two miles downriver, so Flewelling wrote in his diary that he purchased a tract of forty acres and determined to build mission buildings at one end. This became the community of Moosehide.((Ven. Laurie Munro, “A Visitor with Past Connections.” //Northern Lights,// # 179, Winter 2017: 8.)) 

Chief Isaac corresponded with officials in Ottawa with the assistance of Flewelling, to determine a place to settle and to protect the salmon fishery from non-native use. A full year past before a reply was heard from Ottawa. In the meantime, the Church, the NWMP who had commandeered a Hän campsite, and the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in, agreed that the First Nation would relocate to land 5km down river to another traditional place near Moosehide Creek.((Jody Beaumont and Michael Edwards, “An Introduction to First Nations Heritage Along the Yukon River.” 2018: 131. Pdf on a 2018 web site: Iss.yukonschools.ca.)) Flewelling was the rector at St. Paul’s in Dawson from September 1903 to July 1905.((Ken Spotswood, //The Rush for Souls.// St. Paul’s Anglican Pro-Cathedral, Summer 2002: 36.))
	
Flewelling returned to New Brunswick after three years in the Yukon and served one year at St. Luke’s in St. John. He then went to Bedford, MA and Providence, RI. He served for a year in Puerto Rico before going to Pittsburgh, McKees Rocks, and Johnstown, PA. He delivered a sermon in New York City and was offered a church of his own in Barrytown in 1912. Flewelling died in 1914 of a ruptured appendix.((“Rev Frederick Fairweather Flewelling.” //Find A Grave,// 2020 website: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/106323010/frederick-fairweather-flewelling))