Yukon who is who

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Andrew S. Grant
	
Andrew Grant was born in Toronto, Ontario.((//The Canadian Architect and Builder,// Vol. 12, Issue 6, 1899: 114.)) He became a missionary and a doctor.((Morris Zaslow, //The Opening of the Canadian North, 1870 - 1914.// Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Ltd., 1971: 127.)) Reverend Grant and Reverend A.J. Sinclair arrived in Skagway together in 1898 just before Soapy Smith and Frank Reid were killed. Sinclair waited and conducted the funeral before going to Bennett to erect the church there. Grant and Reverend W.R. Dicky, a graduate of Manitoba College in Winnipeg, went on to Dawson.((W. R. Hamilton, //The Yukon Story: A Sourdough’s Record of Goldrush Days and Yukon Progress from the Earliest Times to Present Day.// Vancouver: Mitchell Press Ltd., 1964: 163-5.)) 
Grant built the first Presbyterian Church in Dawson and could be found twenty-two hours a day sawing logs and packing moss until the church was finished. The log building had a thatched roof topped with moss. The interior was the same logs with the bark removed. The glass windows and comfortable benches were a luxury. There was a painted floor, a table for an altar, a large stove, and the interior was lit by coal oil lamps.((//The Canadian Architect and Builder,// Vol. 12, Issue 6, 1899: 114.)) The log church, now known as St. Andrew's Church Hall, was erected with a large room in the rear that served as a manse.((F.A. Acland, //The Yukon Territory 1926.// Department of the Interior. Ottawa: Kings Printer. 1926: 84.)) 

Grant also built the Good Samaritan Hospital soon after he arrived.((“Adios to Dr. Grant.” //Dawson Daily News,// (Dawson), 16 September 1905.)) It was financed by fees and donations plus a per-diem allowance from the territorial council for indigent patients.((Morris Zaslow, //The Opening of the Canadian North, 1870 - 1914.// Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Ltd., 1971: 127.)) 

After seven years in the Yukon, Doctor and Mrs. Grant left for the winter in September 1905. Reverend John Pringle took his place during Grant’s absence.((“Adios to Dr. Grant.” //Dawson Daily News,// (Dawson), 16 September 1905.)) Grant left the Yukon permanently in the summer of 1908. Under his leadership, a fine church with a pipe organ was built to seat six hundred people.((F.A. Acland, //The Yukon Territory 1926.// Department of the Interior. Ottawa: Kings Printer. 1926: 84.)) St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church was built in 1901 by architect Robert Moncrieff under Grant’s direction.((2019 website: HistoricPlaces.ca))
	
Rev. Dr. Grant continued to have large property interests in Dawson and he visited the territory from Toronto in July 1939. The Whitehorse newspaper called him one of Yukon’s heaviest capitalists.((//The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 14 July 1939.))