Patrick Burns (b. 1873) Patrick Burns was born in Ireland. He was a butcher and a miner in the Dawson area in October 1916 when he enlisted to serve in the First World War.((Library and Archives Canada, Attestation Paper, WWI Reg. #2004515. 6 October 1916 at Dawson.)) He was recruited by Captain George Black and was in England by August 1917.((Dawson Daily News (Dawson), 17 August 1917.)) Burns returned to the Yukon in June 1919.((Yukon Archives, GOV 1654.))