Yukon who is who

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Charlie Rivers (1894 - 1977)
	
Charlie River was a Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in man born at Forty Mile. He was appointed a Special Constable with the North-West Mounted Police and was a member of Corporal Dempster’s party in search of the lost Fitzgerald Patrol in 1911.((Dawson City Museum. 2018 website: 
https://tc.beta.gov.yk.ca/sites/default/files/dawson-cemeteries-walking-tour.pdf) )) Mary Roberts and Charlie Rivers raised seven children. Mary was the daughter of Chief Charlie and Sarah Jane James, and the sister of Chief Robert Charles (aka Robert Nootlah).((Craig Mishler and William E. Simone, //Han Hwech'in: people of the river.// Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press. 2004: 257.)) Charlie Rivers and his family are buried in Dawson’s Hillside Cemetery.((Dawson City Museum. 2018 website:
https://tc.beta.gov.yk.ca/sites/default/files/dawson-cemeteries-walking-tour.pdf))