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Henry Joseph Woodside (1858 - 1929)
	
Henry Woodside was born at Awkwright, Ontario and was educated in Owen Sound and Prince Arthur's Landing in Thunder Bay. In 1878, Woodside joined the Canadian Pacific Railway and worked on telegraph and railway construction. He served in the Northwest Rebellion and remained active in the Canadian Militia for the rest of his life. From 1880 to 1898 Woodside managed a series of enterprises at Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, including a jewellery business, the newspaper //Manitoba Liberal,// and a general insurance agency.((Yukon Archives manuscript listing.))
	
Woodside accompanied the Yukon Field Force to the Klondike as a militia officer in 1898. He had been taking photographs since 1891 using a box camera with magazines of dry plates.((Robert G. Wilson, "Canada Through the Stereoscope: Gold Rush to the Klondike." //Photographic Canadiana,// Vol. 10, No. 1. May/June 1984: 17-21.)) His photographs provide important documentation of the Klondike gold rush.

Woodside became a staunch Orangeman and ultra conservative. He arrived in Dawson as a correspondent for the //Manitoba Free Press// and the //Montreal Star// and in May 1899, he became managing editor of the //Yukon Sun// newspaper in Dawson. His editorial column over the next two years was a tirade against American residents.((Edward F. Bush, “The Dawson Daily News: Journalism in the Klondike.” Canadian Historic Sites No. 21 in //Canadian Historic Sites,// Occasional Papers in Archaeology and History, Ottawa 1979: 88.))

Woodside used the newspaper and his government contacts to promote Canadian Robert Henderson as the authentic discoverer of Klondike Gold over American George Carmack.((“Henry Joseph Woodside.” //Wikipedia,// 2019 website:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Joseph_Woodside)) His opinions eventually cost him his job. In 1900, he was sued by Joseph A. Clarke who he accused of taking bribes while he was employed in the gold commissioner’s office. The court ruled against Woodside in 1901. Woodside left the editorial desk between the spring and November 1900 to volunteer for service in South Africa.  In February 1901, he offended the manager of the Alaska Commercial Company who withdrew its patronage of the paper. The //Sun’s// owner [W.F. Thompson?] asked Woodside to resign and he wrote his last editorial on 9 February 1901. Parks Canada historian Edward Bush wrote that his dismissal was understandable but regrettable, as his wartime editorials were knowledgeable and interesting.((Edward F. Bush, “The Dawson Daily News: Journalism in the Klondike.” Canadian Historic Sites No. 21 in Canadian Historic Sites, Occasional Papers in Archaeology and History, Ottawa 1979: 88, 97-98.)) 

In 1906, Woodside was hired as city manager of the Imperial Guarantee and Accident Company in Ottawa.((“Henry Joseph Woodside.” //Wikipedia,// 2024 website:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Joseph_Woodside)) He continued to keep in touch with influential Yukoners and his opinions affected Prime Minister Laurier’s confidence in Yukon Commissioner Frederick Congdon in 1906.((Edward F. Bush, “The Dawson Daily News: Journalism in the Klondike.” Canadian Historic Sites No. 21 in Canadian Historic Sites, Occasional Papers in Archaeology and History, Ottawa 1979: 116.))

Henry Woodside served in the Second World War in the 5th Regiment, Canadian Mounted Rifles and was wounded in France in 1916.((“Henry Joseph Woodside.” //Wikipedia,// 2024 website:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Joseph_Woodside))