Yukon who is who

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Eldon Wellington “Al” Jenkins (1873 – 1946) >
	
Constable Eldon Jenkins was in the first Yukon detachment of North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) officers to arrive at Forty Mile in 1895.((Helene Dobrowolsky, //Law of the Yukon: A Pictorial History of the Mounted Police in the Yukon.// Whitehorse: Lost Moose, 1995: 18.)) Inspector Constantine allowed his NWMP officers to take time off to stake claims during the early days of the Klondike gold rush. Jenkins was among those who reported finding “good money.”((//Seattle Daily Times// (Seattle), 11 September 1897; //San Francisco Examiner// (San Francisco), 15 July 1897; //Victoria Daily Colonist// (Victoria), 18 July 1897 in Ed and Star Jones, //All That Glitters.// Whitehorse: Wolf Creek Books. 2005: 292, footnote 497.)) Ex-Sergeant Phillip Engel was quoted by the //Calgary Herald// as saying that ex-Constable Eldon Jenkins made $40,000 "without turning a shovel". He left the post one Sunday and staked a claim and he was back in time for duty on Monday morning. He gave half of the claim to a working partner and shortly after sold out for $40,000 cash. Jenkins was on the //Portland// when it docked in Seattle on July 17, 1897 along with other NWMP officers who had staked claims.((Jim Wallace, //Forty Mile to Bonanza: The North-West Mounted Police in the Klondike Gold Rush.// Calgary: Bunker to Bunker Publishing. 2000: 46-7.)) Jenkins returned to Ontario to live in Magnetawan. He built the Klondyke Hotel there with gold he brought back from the Yukon. The hotel burned in 1936.((“Burning of Klondyke Hotel in Magnetawan, 1936.” Almaguin Highlands Digital Collection, 2019 website: http://images.ourontario.ca/almaguin/80062/data)) Jenkins is buried in the Chapman Community Cemetery in Magnetawan.((Sandra Reece, “Chapman Community Cemetery. Chapman Township, Perry Sound District, Ontario.” 2019 website: http://www.interment.net/data/canada/ontario/parry/chapman/chapman/chapman.htm))