Yukon who is who

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Jim Grew
	 
Jim Grew was about seventy years old when Stafford Tollemarche met him at Fort Selkirk sometime between 1898 and 1909. Grew had just completed a lively two months at Selkirk and was departing for his trap line up the Pelly River. The trappers up the Pelly and Macmillan rivers leave Selkirk for their trapping grounds about the middle of July and return about the middle of May. They are absent in the bush about ten months and have to obtain everything they will need before they leave. They also do not purchase more than they will need due to the expense and difficulties in transportation. After a certain amount of practice, they get good at estimating. A trapper will have a salmon net and about 300 traps. It will be quite a heavy load to pole and tow up the river against a swift current. When Grew left Selkirk, he mentioned that he might not live to return. He was located nearly three hundred miles up the Pelly but was not entirely alone. Another man had built a cabin in the vicinity and the two occasionally met. One day the neighbour came to call and found him dead.((Stratford Tollemache, //Reminiscences of the Yukon,// Toronto: William Brigg, 1912: 176-77, 191-92.))