Yukon who is who

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Edward Miller Telford (d. 1935)
	
Edward Teller Joined the North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) in June 1891 and was in Depot Division.((William Joseph Hulgaard and John Wesley White, //Honoured in Places: Remembered Mounties Across Canada.// Heritage House Publishing Co., 2002: 169.)) Constable Telford was in the first Yukon detachment of NWMP officers to arrive at Forty Mile in 1895.((Helene Dobrowolsky, //Law of the Yukon: A Pictorial History of the Mounted Police in the Yukon.// Whitehorse: Lost Moose, 1995: 18.)) 

Inspector Constantine allowed his NWMP officers to take time off to stake claims during the early days of the Klondike gold rush. Among those who reported finding “good money” was Sergeant P. C. Engel, Sergeant Murray, Henry Edward Hayne, Constable H. N. Jenkins, Constable Telford, and Corporal E. Newbrook.((//Seattle Daily Times// (Seattle), September 11, 1897; //San Francisco Examiner// (San Francisco), July 15, 1897; //Victoria Daily Colonist// (Victoria), July 18, 1897 in Ed and Star Jones, //All That Glitters.// Whitehorse: Wolf Creek Books, 2005: 292, 497fn.)) 

Edward Telford re-engaged as a constable in the NWMP in Dawson in August 1900. He was promoted to sergeant in May 1901, and staff sergeant in August 1901. He went on to become a sergeant major in 1908, an inspector in 1910, and a superintendent in 1926.((Jim Wallace, //Forty Mile to Bonanza: The North-West Mounted Police in the Klondike Gold Rush.// Calgary: Bunker to Bunker Publishing. 2000: 158.)) He was the RNWMP's Officer in Charge in Mayo in 1917. He was later appointed Yukon's acting Gold Commissioner from 1922-1926.((Linda E.T. MacDonald and Lynette R. Bleiler, //Gold & Galena.//  Mayo Historical Society, 1990: 460.)) 

A Claude Tidd photograph shows the Telford family leaving Dawson where he was the RCMP commander in 1926.((Yukon Archives, Claude and Mary Tidd fonds, photo #7871.)) Telford retired from the Force in January 1927 as the commanding officer of “E” Division. He died in Victoria, British Columbia. Telford Creek, flowing into the Stewart River was likely named for Superintendent Telford.((William Joseph Hulgaard and John Wesley White, //Honoured in Places: Remembered Mounties Across Canada.// Heritage House Publishing Co., 2002: 169.))