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C. J. Lelievre
	
J. Lelievre was an early prospector in the new gold discovery in the Mayo mining district. In early December 1901 Lelievre, F. Williams, Frank Cantin, D. Parent, and Oscar Letourneau staked Williams Creek, a tributary of Duncan Creek.((//Empreinte: La Presence francophone au Yukon.// Tome 2. Whitehorse: Association franco-yukonnaise, 1997: 93-94.)) In early March, the miners on Duncan and Williams creeks contested a baseline survey completed by Dominion Land Surveyor Raoul Rinfret. The miners complained that the survey threw many of them off ground they had legitimately staked. A.J. McPherson came in to redo the survey and wrote a three-page report to outline the deficiencies.((Linda E.T. MacDonald and Lynette R. Bleiler, //Gold & Galena.// Mayo Historical Society, 1990: 43.))
	
C.J. Lelievre represented the Dawson Miners Union in a meeting held at Whitehorse in the fall of 1940. Lelievre and representatives from the International Union of Mine and Smelter Workers, the Hotel & Restaurant Employees Union, and the International Woodworkers of America formed a Yukon-wide Trade Union Committee to link the AFL and CIO unions. The Committee sent four resolutions to the Yukon Council to reduce the regular work week from 56 to 48 hours, establish a Yukon branch of the federal Department of Labour, enact workers’ compensation legislation similar to British Columbia’s, and enact new legislation to allow cooperative to function in the Yukon. The Yukon Council passed bills to amend the Hours of Labour Ordinance and to allow cooperatives.((Doug Bell, //History of the Yukon Workers’ Compensation Board.// Yukon Workers’ Compensation Health and Safety Board, 1996: 26.))