William Ganderson (1874 – 1935)
	
William Ganderson was born in England and lived in Huntingdonshire.((Library and Archives Canada, Attestation Paper, WWI Reg. #2004537. 5 October 1916 in Dawson and Yukon Archives, GOV 1654, f.29600-B 4(7).)) He was in the Yukon in 1898 and staked claims between then and 1913.((2020 Yukon Archives Genealogy Database, 2020 website: http://www.yukongenealogy.com/search?search=ganderson)) 

Ganderson enlisted to serve in the First World War in October 1916.((Library and Archives Canada, Attestation Paper, WWI Reg. #2004537. 5 October 1916 in Dawson and Yukon Archives, GOV 1654, f.29600-B 4(7).)) At that time, he held a number of quartz claims and also placer claims on Hunker and Independence creeks. These claims were held free from cancellation during the war.((Yukon Archives, GOV 1654, f.29600-B 4(7).)) Ganderson was recruited by Captain George Black and was in England by August 1917.((//Dawson Daily News// (Dawson), 17 August 1917.)) He returned to the Yukon after the war and lived on Hunker Creek.((2020 Yukon Archives Genealogy Database, 2020 website: http://www.yukongenealogy.com/search?search=ganderson))
	
Geologist Hugh Bostock visited Ganderson in 1932 on Independence Creek where he everything fixed to run the mine by himself with a minimum of work. He told Bostock he had unearthed a whole mastodon skeleton and some students from Fairbanks took it away. They missed a molar which Bostock sent to the museum and they confirmed that it was a mastodon not the more common mammoth.((H.S. Bostock, //Pack Horse Tracks – recollections of a geologists life in British Columbia and the Yukon 1924 – 1954.// Yukon Geoscience Forum, 1990: 88.))
	
William Ganderson died at St. Mary’s Hospital at age 65 and is buried in the public cemetery.((2020 Yukon Archives Genealogy Database, 2020 website: http://www.yukongenealogy.com/search?search=ganderson))