Richard S. Farquharson Richard S. Farquharson of Charlottetown took a herd of cattle to Dawson City for sale in 1898. He stayed the winter of 1898-99 and left in June convinced that the chances of getting rich as a miner were slim.((J. Clinton Morrison, //Chasing a Dream: Prince Edward Islanders in the Klondike.// Summerside, PEI: Crescent Isle Publishers, 2004: 180.))