Yukon who is who

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Joseph Roy
	
Joseph Roy was near the Masie May ranch on the Stewart River in 1917. He had 100 acres of fine land and was getting it ready to grow hay.((“Yukon Farmers.” //The Weekly Star// (Whitehorse), 23 May 1917.)) 
	
Roy became partners with Sam Henry at the already established Maisie May Ranch in 1918. Bill Stewart was working for them that year. They grew hay and sold it to White Pass as feed for the teams of horses on the Overland Trail.((Linda E.T. MacDonald and Lynette R. Bleiler, //Gold & Galena.// Mayo Historical Society, 1990: 386.)) Joe Ray [sic], the owner of the Maisie May Ranch, had drainage and irrigation ditches and a dam to control the water supply.((Heritage Branch files, A. Innes-Taylor, "A Comprehensive Inventory of Sites and Areas of Historic Significance in the Yukon Territory...".))

In 1918, Sam Henrys’ two oldest daughters were at school in New Westminster, British Columbia. Neither Sam nor Josephine had been out since 1900. They decided to leave forever and sold all their household furniture but then, changing their minds, they bought them all back again. Sam and Josephine Henry drowned in the fall of 1918 when they took passage south and their ship, the //Princess Sophia,// sank in the Lynn Canal.((Ken Coates and Bill Morrison, //The Sinking of the Princess Sophia: Taking the North Down with Her.// Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1990: 30.))