Yukon who is who

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Ellen Lenez, nee Chisolson (1866 – 1918)
	
Ellen Lenez as born in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. She arrived in Dawson from Seattle in June 1902. She was a cousin of Alex MacDonald, a Klondike King. She married well known Dawson pioneer Peter Lenez in 1904 in Dawson.((The Maritime Museum of British Columbia, //SS Princess Sophia: Those Who Perished.// 2018: 73-74.)) Peter worked on mining claims and on the Dawson docks.((Ken Coates and Bill Morrison, //The Sinking of the Princess Sophia: Taking the North Down with Her.// Toronto: Oxford University Press. 1990: 19.))

Ellen was crippled with rheumatoid arthritis in 1918 and had been in an invalid's chair for several years. She left the Yukon in the fall for medical treatment at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota and drowned when the //Princess Sophia// sank in the Lynn Canal.((The Maritime Museum of British Columbia, //SS Princess Sophia: Those Who Perished.// 2018: 74.))