Yukon who is who

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Thomas Whelan
	
Thomas Whelan was born in London, England. Captain Whelan was the master of the steamer //Anglian// in 1899.((Jerry E. Green, //Yukon Riverboat Captains.// 2019 website: http://www.users.miamioh.edu/greenje/#W)) In 1902, Edward Menard and Captain Thomas Whelan obtained acreages on the right limit of the Pelly River, across from the large White Pass & Yukon Route roadhouse operated by Alex Shaver.((Mike Rourke, //Rivers of the Yukon Territory: Pelly River. // Houston, BC: Rivers North Publications. 1995: 28.)) [The Menard acreage became the Pelly River Ranch.] Captain Whalen's roadhouse is listed among those operating in January 1901. It was 159 miles from Dawson on the Winter Trail. In 1902, Thomas Whelan petitioned the government to put in a cable ferry at Pelly Crossing by his roadhouse.((Need source.))  
	
In 1907 Whelan was the captain of the sternwheeler //Victorian.//((Jerry E. Green, //Yukon Riverboat Captains.// 2019 website: http://www.users.miamioh.edu/greenje/#W)) That summer the material and machinery for a large dredge was assembled in Whitehorse for delivery to the mouth of the Forty Mile River. The //Victorian// was to drop off the 500 tons on her trip back down the river. It was good load for the boat and a barge. It was the close of the season and the only pilot was too ill to work. Captain Whelan decided to make the trip alone and that involved forty-eight hours on watch. Progress was slow because of the lateness of the year and the low water.((S.H. Graves, //On the White Pass Pay-Roll.// Chicago: Paladin Press, 1908.))