Henry Breaden
	
Henry Breaden came to the Klondike in July 1898, crewing on a flotilla of riverboats destined for Yukon River trade runs. In 1899, he joined his wife Elizabeth and their two-year-old son James at Bennett, and they floated down the Yukon River to Fort Selkirk. They travelled up the Pelly River and built a cabin at a place later named for him, but misspelled, Braden’s Canyon. The family lived there and at Fort Selkirk over the next twelve years. In 1909, Henry was running a bakery and laundry at Selkirk. Henry and Elizabeth had four daughters and two more sons, but the sons, Ernest and Harold, died in a diphtheria epidemic at Selkirk in 1907.((Michael Gates, “Breaden family had deep roots in the Yukon.” //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 31 July 2015.)) 

Henry Breaden and Ernie Somerton were drivers on the overland stagecoach from 1923 to 1928, and both 2 ton "Holt" cats and Model "T" Ford trucks were used on the route. Greenfield and Pickering had the mail contract during those years. After the river boats were wintered, they used Model "Ts" between rivers and canoes to cross the rivers. When there was sufficient ice on the rivers, they started using the cats.((Conversation Lyn Bleiler had with Henry Breaden in March 2002. From email to Sally Robinson in the same month.)) Harry and Elizabeth split up after the birth of a last daughter, and Harry left the Yukon.((Michael Gates, “Breaden family had deep roots in the Yukon.” //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 31 July 2015.))