James Langlois Bell (~1856 – 1940)
	
James Bell came to Dawson as Assistant Gold Commissioner in January 1900. He was accompanied by Sheriff R.J. Eibeck, and they made the trip from Bennett to Dawson with the RNWMP dog teams. He passed through Whitehorse where the only buildings he remembered were a tent roadhouse and the Telegraph Office across the Yukon River from the present-day downtown.((//Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 27 March 1925.)) His wife Florence and daughters Aileen (age ten) and Doris (age six) joined him in 1900. Bell was a lawyer in Dawson until 1916 when he was appointed Chief Magistrate. The family lived in Whitehorse until Bell retired in 1925 and they moved to Victoria.((Dawson City Museum, photo archives, 1990.78.4.51.)) Police Magistrate Bell and his wife left for Victoria in March 1925 and the Whitehorse newspaper mourned the loss of one of Yukon’s oldest and best-known families.((//Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 27 March 1925.)) James Bell died at the age of eighty-four at the Royal Jubilee Hospital in Victoria, British Columbia.((//The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 15 November 1940.))