John Calbreath John Calbreath was an independent Canadian trader who established a trading post at Teslin Lake in 1886 and later at Telegraph Creek, British Columbia. He advertised in the //Times Colonist// (Victoria) that he could place goods at the Teslin Lake post for $250 per ton, shipping up the Stikine and overland on the Teslin Trail.((Francis E. Caldwell, //Cassiar's Elusive Gold.// Victoria: Trafford Publishing. 1999: 21.))