Yukon who is who

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W. J. Lyon (d. 1898)
	
Reverend W.J. Lyon was an Episcopal minister in Gloucester, England. He was known and well-liked in his NWT parish at Moosomin [southern Saskatchewan].(("Death on the route." //Klondike Nugget// (Dawson). 9 July 1898.)) When Lyon heard about the Klondike strike, he made an application to the Anglican Church Missionary Society to labour among the Yukon miners. The Society at once made a grant of £200 for the purpose, and Mr. Lyon was sent out. He climbed the Chilkoot Pass and ministered to the people at Lake Bennett. Upon the opening of navigation in 1898, Lyon started down to Dawson with a servant, Montegazza. They met disaster in Lake Laberge.((H. A. Cody, //An Apostle of the North.// London: Seeley, 1908. Project Canterbury, 2019 website: http://anglicanhistory.org/canada/bompas/cody1908/16.html ))\\
	
Lyon and his Japanese cook were driven ashore by a gale and had to lighten their load. They decided to take their Peterborough canoe and save some of their floating supplies. The canoe overturned and both men drowned.(("Death on the route." //Klondike Nugget// (Dawson). 9 July 1898.)) The bodies were recovered by the North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) and buried on the shore of the lake.((H. A. Cody, //An Apostle of the North.// London: Seeley, 1908. Project Canterbury, 2019 website: http://anglicanhistory.org/canada/bompas/cody1908/16.html )) 

Lyons grave is on a trail behind the NWMP building at Lower Laberge. The marker was placed on the grave in 1944 by the resident telegraph operator and the marker was made by carver Jack Elliot, chief engineer on the //S.S. Whitehorse.// The marker incorrectly marks the date of death as 1902.((Gus Karpes, //Exploring the Upper Yukon River.// Whitehorse: Kugh Enterprises, 1993: 46.))