Yukon who is who

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Joseph Omer Lachapelle (1867 - 1927)
	
Joseph Lachapelle was born in L’Assomption, Quebec.((“Joy Angela Lachapelle.” Ancestry 2024 website: Joy Angela Lachapelle, b.1919 d.1976 - Ancestry®)) Dr. Chapelle was a surgeon in Dawson in the early 1900s. Around 1909 he donated a statue to the Sisters of St. Ann to recognise the result of a successful operation. The statue was later taken to Victoria.((Sister Margaret Cantwell, //North to Share: The Sisters of Saint Ann in Alaska and the Yukon Territory.// Victoria: Sisters of Saint Ann, 1997: 89, 252.)) St. Mary’s hospital was built in Dawson in 1906. A photo from that year, showing a statue and the hospital garden is held at the Dawson City Museum. The museum also has a photo of the interior of the hospital chapel showing the alter and statuary. The Sisters of St. Ann nurses lived on the main floor under the chapel.((Dawson City Museum Acc #1996.39.126-PER and #1996.39.2PER))
	
In September 1927, Dr. Lachapelle petitioned the Dawson courts for a divorce and the case was heard by Justice Macaulay and a jury.((//Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 7 October 1927.)) In October 1927, Dr. Lachapelle and two others, Mrs. Bessie Ray and John Timson, were drowned after their canoe left Stewart for Dawson.((//Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 14 October 1927.)) Lachapelle’s spaniel was found in a famished condition in Henderson Slough, four miles below Stewart City.((//Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 21 October 1927.))