Yukon who is who

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Daniel Gerald Snure (1863 – 1940)
	
Dan Snure was born at Jordan, Ontario.(("Pioneer of the Yukon Passes away in Whitehorse Hospital." //The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 5 July 1940.)) He boarded a ship from Portland, Oregon to Alaska in August 1897 to join the Klondike gold rush with his partner Ned Dycer.((Yukon Archives, search files.)) Snure, with partners Dycer and Arthur Manners, first settled at Hootalinqua where they operated a roadhouse for the early stampeders. After the traffic moved to the overland trail, Snure left for Livingstone Creek [in 1899] where he mined and operated a hotel.(("Pioneer of the Yukon Passes away in Whitehorse Hospital." //The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 5 July 1940; Margaret Crook, Norma L. Felker, and Helen Horback, //Lost Graves.// Whitehorse: City of Whitehorse, 1989: 38.)) 

Snure's Livingstone roadhouse was built around 1905. It had a bar that offered whiskey.((Yukon Historic Sites interview with Stan Clethero and Doug Olynyk, 1 June 1993.))  In 1910, the Whitehorse newspaper described Snure as a miner, merchant, and hotelman from Livingstone. He was in Whitehorse on one of his semi-annual trips.((//Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 7 October 1910.)) Snure ran the Livingstone roadhouse from 1899 to 1912.((H.S. Bostock, //Pack Horse Tracks.// Geological Survey of Canada, 1974: 71.)) He was a general merchandiser for a mining supplies office, an agent for Dominion Telegraph, and Livingstone’s postmaster.((Yukon Archives, search files.)) He was also a miner and, in 1914, was driving an adit into the hillside on Livingstone Creek below the A.C. claims to tap a bench pay streak.((//Mining and Scientific Press,// 17 October 1914.))
 
Snure left Livingstone for Carmacks where he managed the Taylor and Drury store. He had started for the Klondike in 1898 but did not arrived until 1936 when he went down to have his teeth fixed.((H.S. Bostock, //Pack Horse Tracks.// Geological Survey of Canada, 1974: 71, 73.)) Dan Snure stayed in Carmacks until a terminal illness brought him to Whitehorse.(("Pioneer of the Yukon Passes away in Whitehorse Hospital." //The Whitehorse Star,// July 5, 1940.)) For a time, he operated a black fox farm on the Yukon River just below the Whitehorse General Hospital.((Gus Karpes, //The Teslin River: Johnson's Crossing to Hootalinqua Yukon, Canada.// Whitehorse: Kugh Enterprises, 1995: 34-5.)) Snure was a Mason and is buried in the Whitehorse Mason’s plot. He left relatives in Vancouver and Eastern Canada.(("Pioneer of the Yukon Passes away in Whitehorse Hospital." //The Whitehorse Star,// July 5, 1940.))