Yukon who is who

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Andrew "Andy" Johnson (1860 - 1936)
	
Andy Johnson was born in Sweden. He went to sea and jumped ship on Vancouver Island in the 1880s to work in the coal mines of Nanaimo, British Columbia. He prospected in the interior and on the Stewart River in the Yukon. By 1893, he had worked his way up the south branch of the McQuesten River to a point above the log jam. He prospected the Mayo area in 1896 and found galena on Lookout Mountain (Mount Haldane) in one of the steep gullies. He did not know what it was at the time, but this was the first discovery of the silver-lead mineral in the district. At the mouth of the Stewart River he met a party of people on their way to Forty-Mile on the Yukon River and they told him his specimens were galena and might contain silver, which had little value at the time.((Lyn Bleiler, January 20, 2020; Yukon Archives, John Scott, "A Life in the Yukon." Unpublished manuscript, 1992.))
	
In September 1893, Johnson poled a boat from Stewart up the Yukon to Hootalinqua, at the mouth of the Teslin River, and then he and a couple of pack dogs walked up the Teslin River, across to the Liard River, and then on to Cassiar, British Columbia. He joined the Klondike stampede in 1898 and then returned to the Mayo region where he found more galena at Bighorn Gulch on Mount Haldane. He optioned that property to Greenfield, Pickering, Cale, Forrest, Anderson, and Maclennan who formed the Yukon Silver Lead Company.((Lyn Bleiler, January 20, 2020; Yukon Archives, John Scott, "A Life in the Yukon." Unpublished manuscript, 1992.)) Johnson took out about three tons of ore.((Linda E.T. MacDonald and Lynette R. Bleiler, //Gold & Galena.// Mayo Historical Society, 1990: 393.))

The prospect on Lookout Mountain was developed by Greenfield and Pickering in l9l7-l918. That winter it was 74 degrees below zero in the area. In l9l9, Johnson staked Sourdough Hill, southeast of Keno Hill, and mined this ground in l925, making some good shipments of ore. Johnson spent his last years living in a log cabin at Minto Bridge.((Lyn Bleiler, January 20, 2020; Yukon Archives, John Scott, "A Life in the Yukon." Unpublished manuscript, 1992.)) Andy Johnson died in the Mayo hospital.((Linda E.T. MacDonald and Lynette R. Bleiler, //Gold & Galena.// Mayo Historical Society, 1990: 393.))