George Beirnes
	
George Beirnes left Ontario for the Klondike stampede. He worked on the construction of both the White Pass & Yukon Route railway and the Yukon Telegraph. He arrived in Hazelton about 1916 and became a freighter as well as owning a large ranch in the Kispiox Valley where he kept his eighty pack animals. Beirnes took over the contract from Cataline to supply the Yukon Telegraph line cabins from Quesnel and Hazelton in 1913. Beirnes changed his letterhead to read "Packing contractor to the Canadian Government".((Bill Miller, //Wires in the Wilderness: The Story of the Yukon Telegraph.// Surrey BC: Heritage House. 2004: 151-2, 187-8.))