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Frank C. Goulter Sr. (1877 - 1981)
	
Frank Goulter was born in England, the youngest of seven children. He joined the army when he was eighteen and served in Ireland with the 76th Field Battery. He was sent to India but became sick and was set home to spend four years with the 76th Battery at Athlone, Ireland. He went to South Africa in 1900 to serve eight years in active service during the Boer War. He used four years of reserve service as a North-West Mounted Police officer and came to Canada in 1903. He was in Regina and Calgary before choosing to come to the Yukon for higher pay. From 1904 to 1906, he served at the Whitehorse, old Takhini, Yukon Crossing, and Tantalus police posts.((“Frank C. Goulter.” Yukon Archives biographical sketch.)) 
	
Goulter’s first assignment was as Governor General Minto's escort. He went back to Whitehorse and was sent to Carmacks in 1905.((Joyce Yardley, //Yukon Riverboat Days.// Surry B.C.: Hancock House, 1996: 52-55.)) Goulter was the officer in charge of Tantalus Detachment at Carmacks.((Stuart W. Bates, "Minto Detachment, Yukon Territory." //RCMP Quarterly,// Winter 1991: 7-9.)) There were four policemen at Tantalus, including Scottie Hume, and they took turns patrolling the river.((Joyce Yardley, //Yukon Riverboat Days.// Surry B.C.: Hancock House, 1996: 52-55.)) Goulter retired in 1905.((Stuart W. Bates, "Minto Detachment, Yukon Territory." //RCMP Quarterly,// Winter 1991: 7-9.)) 
	
Goulter built a home near Carmacks in 1910. He partnered with Drury in raising foxes, but the partnership broke up. Before Goulter built the fox ranch in 1912, he trapped in the old Chico roadhouse country. That was the trail from the Twin Lakes country through to Lower Laberge, where they used to come over in the C.D. days to Montague. He also trapped where the Hutshi River comes in and at Montague itself. It used to be good fox country.((Robert G. McCandlass, //Yukon Wildlife: A Social History.// Edmonton: The University of Alberta Press, 1985: 165-66.)) 
	
Frank Goulter and Ida May Mack were married in 1914 and they raised two daughters, Anne (Stephanson) and Helen (Brooks), and a son, Courtland Frank.((Joyce Yardley, //Yukon Riverboat Days.// Surry B.C.: Hancock House, 1996: 44-55; “Frank C. Goulter.” Yukon Archives biographical sketch.)) In 1967, //The Whitehorse Star// heralded Frank Goulter’s 90th birthday and named him the oldest surviving member of the North-West Mounted Police. The Force changed its name to Royal North-West Mounted Police in 1904.((//Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 26 January 1967. 2021 website “Yukon Nuggets”: https://yukonnuggets.com/archived-news-headlines/the-whitehorse-star-reports-in-1967.)) He was still living in Carmacks at the age of 102 in 1978.((Stuart W. Bates, "Minto Detachment, Yukon Territory." //RCMP Quarterly,// Winter 1991: 7-9.)) Goulter Mountain is the highest mountain around Carmacks.((William Pohl, //Down North.// Thorndike Press, 1986: 56.))