Edward Weston Burnell (1888 – 1942)
	
Ed Burnell was born in Ireland.((Library and Archives Canada, Attestation Paper, WWI Reg # 172439. 7 February 1916.)) He was a member of the Royal North-West Mounted Police in Mayo.((Linda E.T. MacDonald and Lynette R. Bleiler, //Gold & Galena.// Mayo Historical Society, 1990: 351.)) 

Burnell was mining in the Mayo area in February 1916 when he enlisted to serve in the First World War. He was a private in the 83rd Overseas Battalion when he applied to have his claims held free of cancellation during the war. His certificate of enlistment was filed against the Horse-shoe Fractional Mineral Claim #2281 and the All In Mineral Claim No 2379 and against creek claims No 2 below on Johnson, No 7 below on Sabbath and 8 below on Coronation creeks.((Yukon Archives, GOV 1654, f.29600-B 2(7).)) 

Burnell returned to the Yukon in July 1919.((Yukon Archives, GOV 1654.)) The Department of Soldiers’ Civil Re-Establishment helped E.W. Burnell in June 1920 with a statutory declaration repayment of travelling expenses to point of enlistment.((June 1920 Report, Department of Soldiers’ Civil Re-Enlistment. Yukon Archives, GOV 1654, f.29600-G.)) After the war, Burnell trapped on the Stewart River. He had cabins across the river from the White Pass sheds, at 17-Mile and at 26-Mile. He often travelled down the Stewart on his raft //Nogo Verifast.// Ed Burnell died in Mayo.((Linda E.T. MacDonald and Lynette R. Bleiler, //Gold & Galena.// Mayo Historical Society, 1990: 351.))