Charles Hathway “Chappie” Chapman (1902-1991)
	
Chappie Chapman was born in England in 1902. He attended school in Saskatoon and finished grade 12 in Swift Current. He joined the Royal Nor-West Mounted Police in 1919 and belonged to A Division at Maple Creek. He was transferred to Regina and, when A Division was sent to Ottawa, he put in a request for the Yukon. In Whitehorse, he was appointed teamster in charge of the stables and guard in charge of the prisoners.((Charles Hathaway Chapman, "Memoirs of Sixty North of Sixty." //The Yukoner Magazine,// No. 1, 1996: 17-29.)) He worked with a horse and a couple of prisoners hauling wood and water to the Whitehorse police buildings.((Charles Chapman interviewed by Cal Waddington for Parks and Historic Sites, July - September 1978. Yukon River Aural History Project. Yukon Archives, Acc # 81/32)) 

Chapman was in Whitehorse in 1920. In the spring of 1921, he was sent to Ross River to re-open a detachment there.((Jim Butler, "Mountie patrols at -75." //Whitehorse Star Telestar,// 13 May 1983.)) Passengers on the steamer had to help cut wood for fuel and Chapman and Reverend Stringer worked a crosscut saw together. It took four days to get up the Pelly River from Fort Selkirk to Ross.((Joyce Yardley, //Yukon Riverboat Days.// Surry B.C.: Hancock House, 1996: 74-84.))
	
The Ross River settlement included a Taylor and Drury trading post. There were 250 people waiting for supplies on the boat, but the trapper and hunters left after picking up their supplies, so Chappie was able to rent a large log cabin for a detachment office and living quarters. The Pelly River started freezing over in October and Chapman went fifty miles downriver to visit "old Man Rose" who had a cabin at the mouth of Rose Creek, very near where the Faro mine is today. In September 1922, Corporal Tidd arrived at Ross River from downriver in a canoe; there to relieve Chapman who went back to Whitehorse. The water was too low for the steamer, so Chapman travelled down river in a moose skin boat. He was in Whitehorse until after Christmas and then he and Corporal Blatta travelled by dog team to Champagne Landing, up the Dezadeash River,  and Lake to Dalton Post, Klukshu Landing, and close to the Yukon/Alaska border to check out rumours of smuggling.((Charles Hathaway Chapman, "Memoirs of Sixty North of Sixty." //The Yukoner Magazine,// No. 1, 1996: 17-29.))
	
Chapman resigned his position with the Mounted Police in 1929 and he worked for White Pass & Yukon Route as a checker on the Whitehorse docks.((Charles Chapman interviewed by Cal Waddington for Parks and Historic Sites, July - September 1978. Yukon River Aural History Project. Yukon Archives, Acc # 81/32)) He went to Mayo and partnered with Tommy Kerruish running a diamond drill for the International Diamond Drill Company of San Francisco. They drilled above Copper King, the Pueblo Mine, and War Eagle until the company pulled out after the end of the Second World War. Chapman and Kerruish stampeded to Dollis Creek in the Kluane District and prospected up the Teslin River.((Joyce Yardley, //Yukon Riverboat Days.// Surry B.C.: Hancock House, 1996: 74-84.)) They spent the summer on O’Brien Bar.((Charles Chapman interviewed by Cal Waddington for Parks and Historic Sites, July - September 1978. Yukon River Aural History Project. Yukon Archives, Acc # 81/32))
	
Chapman arrived in Mayo in the summer of 1928 and worked with Bob Palmer driving a two-ton truck hauling supplies from the dock to the store and hotel in Keno. He then went to work for "Kippy" Broerner at the Northern Commercial Company (NC Co.) store in Mayo and stayed with the company for about twenty years.  After two years in Mayo, he transferred to Keno to replace the retiring Dick O'Loane as manager. He stayed in the Mayo area until 1933, when work was affected by the depression, and then he went on half-time before being transferred to Dawson.((Linda E.T. MacDonald and Lynette R. Bleiler, //Gold & Galena.// Mayo Historical Society, 1990: 261-3.)) 

Chapman worked first as an accountant at the Dawson store and then was put in charge of the operation. He ordered the next winter’s supplies in February, so they would come in on the boats before October. NC Co. had the only grocery in Dawson, and they supplied Old Crow, Sixtymile, and Fortymile, and sold hay and oats to the woodcutters along the river. Everything in Dawson was done on credit and people paid after the dredges started working in the summer. All the Alaska freight came through Dawson on the way to the lower river. Chappie and Mattie Barton married in Dawson in 1934, and they raised two children, Bill and Betty.((Charles Chapman interviewed by Cal Waddington for Parks and Historic Sites, July - September 1978. Yukon River Aural History Project. Yukon Archives, Acc # 81/32))
	
At the beginning of the Second World War, Chappie joined the local Pacific Coast Militia Rangers in Dawson and was commissioned as a captain and commanding officer. He conducted training every week to ensure they could take over the town in an emergency. Just after the war, Chappie bought a drug store and he and Mattie ran it themselves. They sold their house on Fifth Ave and moved into an apartment over the store. Chappie also prepared income tax forms and did accounting and paralegal work for customers.((Darrell Hookey, "Mattie." //The Yukoner Magazine,// No. 1, July 1996: 5-15.))
	
The Chapmans moved back to Mayo in 1951 when the children finished school.((Charles Chapman interviewed by Cal Waddington for Parks and Historic Sites, July - September 1978. Yukon River Aural History Project. Yukon Archives, Acc # 81/32)) Chappie started selling insurance and acted as a notary, and they took over the movie cinema from Ed and Bon Kunze. After a year, he took over Bud Fisher's garage and hired Jack Besplug as a mechanic and Jim Gibb as his helper. They bought a two-ton tanker from Ryder's fuel service in Whitehorse and started delivering fuel oil. As the road improved, the ore trucks seldom stopped in Mayo, White Pass took over the fuel delivery to their large customers, and the Yukon Government started their own insurance plan. The Chapman's moved to Whitehorse and he worked as an accountant with the Transport Division of Cassiar Asbestos, United Keno Hill Mines. He was later appointed manager for Northern Metallic Sales in Watson Lake, and Mattie and Chappie lived there for seventeen years.((Linda E.T. MacDonald and Lynette R. Bleiler, //Gold & Galena.// Mayo: Mayo Historical Society, 1990: 261-3.))
	
In 1972 the Chapmans were named Mr. and Mrs. Yukon during the spring Sourdough Rendezvous. They were given a trip and travelled to the South Pacific and Australia where they visited family members.((Darrell Hookey, "Mattie." //The Yukoner Magazine,// No. 1, July 1996: 5-15.)) The Chapmans were recipients of the Commissioner’s Award in April 1981.(("Commissioner's Award Recipients." Hougen Group, 2018 web site: http://hougengroup.com/yukon-history/yukon-statistics/commissioners-award-recipients-by-date/)) Charles Chapman is buried at the Masonic Cemetery in Whitehorse.((Darrell Hookey, "Mattie." //The Yukoner Magazine,// No. 1, July 1996: 5-15.))