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Grant Kirkman
	
Grant and John Albert Kirkman found gold on Toulare Creek, a tributary of the Yukon River, in the summer of 1898. They named the creek after their hometown of Tulare, California.((“New Strikes in Klondike.” //San Francisco Chronicle// (San Francisco), 17 August 1899.)) The brothers discovered the first gold on Kirkman Creek later that year. The creek was formally named by J.B. Tyrrell after Prof. R. Ramsay Wright of the University of Toronto.((R. Coutts, //Yukon: Places & Names.// Sidney, B.C.: Gray’s Publishing Ltd. 1980: 147-48.)) Grant Kirkman located the upper half of Discovery claim on the re-named Kirkman Creek on 13 October 1898.((D.D. Cairnes, //Scroggie, Barker, Thistle, and Kirkman Creeks, Yukon Territory.// Canadian Department of Mines, Memoir 97: 31.)) The creek did not pay for the Kirkmans and they abandoned it. The creek was worked successfully in 1914 by Joseph C. Britton and William Heas, and a small settlement grew up at the mouth.((R. Coutts, //Yukon: Places & Names.// Sidney, B.C.: Gray’s Publishing Ltd. 1980: 147-48.))