Yukon who is who

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Robert S. "Bob" Gould
	
Bob Gould arrived in Dawson City in 1901 from the Musquodoboit Valley in Nova Scotia, an area that had its own gold rush.((Dan Davidson, "Adventures in Frozen Gold." //The Klondike Sun// (Dawson), 5 June 2001.)) He worked in the coal mines in Washington to get enough money to come to the Yukon. He travelled with three men from Nova Scotia on the train over the pass and arrived in Dawson in the spring of 1901. He went to Adams Hill in the Bonanza valley, where school buddy Frank Redmond and his brother Charles were mining. Bob worked there for a short time and then went to Paradise Hill on Hunker Creek, another Redmond claim. Bob staked his first claim on Paradise Hill and then prospected and staked on Nugget Hill where he worked for the rest of his mining days.((John Gould, “The Story of Nugget Hill.” //Klondike Gold// (Dawson), Vol. 1 No. 1, 1998.))

For the first few years Bob Gould had partners James W. Murphy, his wife Mary Jane, and Charles Reed. The Murphy family moved to a cabin near Bob’s on Nugget Hill in 1905. In 1917, Bob met Mabel Whitehead, from Boston, who was on Hunker Creek visiting her sister. They were married in 1918 and lived on Nugget Hill where they raised six children.((John Gould, “The Story of Nugget Hill.” //Klondike Gold// (Dawson), Vol. 1 No. 1, 1998.))
Gould and Murphy built two and a half miles of ditch to bring water from a nearby stream, and they used hydraulic monitors to wash the gravel banks down through the sluice boxes. Eventually Murphy moved to Dawson where he and Gould opened the Third Ave. Blacksmith shop. Mary Jane died in 1913 and James Murphy took the family back to Nova Scotia. Gould bought out his share in the partnership in 1918.((John Gould, “The Story of Nugget Hill.” //Klondike Gold// (Dawson), Vol. 1 No. 1, 1998.))

The Goulds moved to Burnaby, British Columbia in 1933. Bob and son John returned to the Yukon every summer to mine until the start of the Second World War. After the war, John returned with his wife in 1946 to help mine on Nugget Hill.((John Gould, “The Story of Nugget Hill.” //Klondike Gold// (Dawson), Vol. 1 No. 1, 1998.)) In 1950, Gould was operating a hydraulic operation on several hillside claims on Hunker Creek where he had been mining for thirty years. His son, J.A. Gould was helping him with a bulldozer. They started 1 April and finished on 1 November, recovering 250 ounces of gold.((R.L. Debicki, ed. “Yukon Mineral Industry, 1941 to 1959.” DIAND, Whitehorse, 1982: 71.)) Bob retired from the mine at age eighty.((John Gould, “The Story of Nugget Hill.” //Klondike Gold// (Dawson), Vol. 1 No. 1, 1998.))