Ernest H. “Chappie” Chapman (d. 1941)
	
Ernest Chapman operated a series of businesses in Dawson between 1908 and 1941.((Dan Davidson, “The tale of the little yellow bus.” //The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 23 October 1996.)) He had a store on Front Street in Dawson and a trading post on a remote river to the north.(("Obituary: Clarence Craig, March 26, 1905 - December 16, 2004." With a footnote by John Gould. //The Klondike Sun// (Dawson), 15 February 2005.)) In 1929, Chappie bought a new Chevrolet International Utility Express bus and started a summer touring business called Chappie’s Sightseeing Bus. He took tourists up to the Midnight Dome, to the Bear Creek compound, into the goldfields, and on fishing trips. In the 1930s, Chappie sold the bus to a local garage. From there it went to several owners until it ended up back in Dawson in 1996 when local tour operator David Taylor purchased it.((Dan Davidson, “The tale of the little yellow bus.” //The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 23 October 1996.))

Chappie Chapman and pilot Lionel A. Vines were killed when the British Yukon Navigation’s Fairchild CF-AXJ crashed near the Dawson airport. Vine was taking Chapman to Hungry Lake in the Bonnet Plume district where he maintained a trading post.((//The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 7 February 1941.)) This was the second time that Chapman had tried to get 1302 pounds of freight into his trading post run by the Barz brothers, Art and Ernie. On 24 January 1941, Vines and Chapman had flown as far as the Bonnet Plume but could not land due to the weather. On 31 January 1941, Vines flew from Whitehorse and picked up Chapman and his cargo at Dawson. The plane took off and Vines aligned it along the Klondike River. Vines was running on his reserve tank which ran out of gas. By the time he realized his mistake and switched tanks, a wing clipped a tall popular tree, and the plane crashed. Miss de Montigny was employed as a cook at Fournier’s ranch near the airport and called to report the crash.((Don Barz, //Yukon Wanderlust.// Celticfrog Publishing, 2021: 206-207.))
	
Shortly after the plane took off, it was observed to be in trouble over the Klondike River. Pilot Vernon Bookwalter of White Pass Airways circled the vicinity and found the Fairchild in the poplars about fifty feet from the water. Bookwalter landed at the airport and, with other Company employees, rushed to the scene where they found the plane with one wing torn off and the pilot and the passenger beyond help. Chapman was survived by his wife and two married daughters, Mrs. Craig and Mrs. [Ginny] Redmond [b. 1917], all residing in Dawson. Lionel Vines was buried in Whitehorse.((//The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 7 February 1941.))
	
Chapman Lake, beside the Dempster Highway, is named for Chappie Chapman.(("Obituary: Clarence Craig, March 26, 1905 - December 16, 2004." With a footnote by John Gould. //The Klondike Sun// (Dawson), 15 February 2005.))