Thomas Corville Thomas Corville was a miner from Coal Creek. He wanted to enlist in the First World War but did not have the money for a steamer ticket to Whitehorse, so he walked the 600 km. When he reached Victoria, he was rejected for having flat feet.((Michael Gates, "Yukon's World War I soldiers are not forgotten." //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 14 November 2014.))