Alexander Clarke Fisher (1870 - 1941)
	
Alex Fisher was the brother of Bruce Fisher, resident of Silver City at Kluane Lake.((Interpretive talk given by Josie Sias at Silver City, May 1999.)) Alex was the former master of the sternwheeler //Lightning.//((Flo Whyard, “1941: Ft. Norman-to-Mayo road urged.” //The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse) 28 April 1997.))
	
In 1906, Alex Fisher and Dr. Sugden purchased the holdings of W. L. Breeze at Claim 23, above the canyon on Burwash Creek.((Al Wright, "Kluane " manuscript, page 129. Yukon Archives, Allen Wright fonds 83/21 MSS 131.)) Fisher lived at a homestead on the west side of Kluane Lake where the boats docked for the Slims River trail. He fought in the First World War and was listed as a Kluane master mariner. He returned to the Yukon in July 1919.((Yukon Archives, GOV 1645)) 
	
Fisher prospected and mined for nearly twenty years on Sheep Creek, a tributary of the Slims River. He arrived in Whitehorse in 1924 with nuggets to buy supplies and was in a great hurry to return to the Kluane country.((//Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 19 September 1924.)) In March 1928, Fisher again visited Whitehorse this time with his season’s catch of furs. This was his first visit to town in three years.((//Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse, 30 March 1928.))
	
In January 1941, Alex Fisher suffered a stroke and died before the plane arrived to take him to the Whitehorse hospital.((//The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 31 January 1941.)) Fisher’s grave marker is at the site of his cabin by Sheep Mountain.