Louis Brier Louis Brier was born in Romania. He came to the Klondike in 1897 and provided materials and grubstaked prospectors on a percentage basis. He was very successful and his estate donated funds for the creation of a Jewish home for seniors in British Columbia.((Fia Jampolsky, “The pioneering Jews who went north to find riches in the Klondike.” //The Canadian Jewish News,// 5 May 2020.))