Frank Armstrong

Frank Armstrong was a Columbia River captain. He built the first steamboat to run the upper Columbia at Golden, British Columbia and was still building boats at Golden in 1887.((Jerry E. Green, //Yukon Riverboat Captains.// 2019 website: http://www.users.miamioh.edu/greenje/)) Armstrong came north in 1897 to build the sternwheeler //Anglian// with Captain Charles Edward MacDonald and James Gaudin of F.N. York & Company.((Edward L. Affleck, //A Century of Paddlewheelers in the Pacific Northwest, the Yukon and Alaska.// Vancouver: Alexander Nicolls Press. 2000: 71.)) The Teslin & Yukon Transportation Company (T&YT) was building the sternwheeler in anticipation of the construction of a railway from Telegraph Creek, British Columbia.((“List of steamboats on the Yukon River,” //Wikipedia,// 2018 website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_steamboats_on_the_Yukon_River)) The railway was never built, and Armstrong joined the John Irving Navigation Co in 1898 and ran boats on Tagish Lake and on the Lake Bennett-Atlin run for two seasons.((Jerry E. Green, //Yukon Riverboat Captains.// 2019 website: http://www.users.miamioh.edu/greenje/))