William Gillis (b. ~1870)
	
William Gillis, of Fort Wrangel, was born in Kinross, Prince Edward Island. He had been in the north for several years by 1897. He and his partner from Snohomish, Washington joined a group of four American adventurers enroute to Juneau. Gillis had survival skills and kept them all alive, but he nearly died of starvation returning from his mining claim in the Klondike goldfields on Dominion Creek in 1897. In 1901, Gillis was working as an engineer on middle Hunker Creek.((J. Clinton Morrison, //Chasing a Dream: Prince Edward Islanders in the Klondike.// Summerside, PEI: Crescent Isle Publishers. 2004: 92.))