Yukon who is who

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Scammel McMaster
	
Scammel McMaster took the sternwheeler //Bailey// through Miles Canyon in May 1898.(Knutson, //Can We Do It// (page 5) in Jerry Green, //Yukon Riverboat Captains,// 2020 website: http://www.users.muohio.edu/greenje/)) Jeremiah Lynch listed McMaster as captain of the sternwheeler //Canadian// in 1899 and 1900.((Jeremiah Lynch, //Three Years in the Klondike.// Chicago: The Lake side Press. 1967: 219, 222, 342.))
	
The //Bonanza King// struck the reef in Rink Rapids on May 29th, 1907 and sunk. It had 100 tons of coal on board and the barge had 200 tons of commercial coal for Dawson. Capt. McMaster got the //Whitehorse// halfway through Lake Laberge and the crew under Capt. Bloomquist took canoes from there. They arrived at the wreck on June 1. When the //Whitehorse// returned, Capt. McMaster advised that it was possible to get a boat through and the //Victorian// was commissioned and loaded with a wrecking outfit.((Yukon Archives, Cor 722 (1907) WP&YR. RGI  II-I))
                 
Captain McMaster, an old timer with the British Yukon Navigation (BYN) Co., retired in the spring of 1920.((Yukon Archives, Cor 722 (1920) WP&YR. RGI  II-I))