Charles H. Hamilton
	
Charles Hamilton was the assistant manager of the North America Trading and Transportation (NAT&T) Co. at Forty Mile. In April 1894, he requested a police presence at Forty Mile to regulate the liquor traffic. In the winter of 1894/95, a miner's meeting was called on behalf of a young girl servant fired by Hamilton for staying out past an appointed hour in the evening. The meeting found in favour of the girl and awarded her a year's salary, first class passage to the outside, food until the arrival of the boat and lodging costs. North-West Mounted Police officer Brown suggested that the meeting was a way of getting at Hamilton who was unpopular for not giving credit at the store.((Thomas Stone, //Miner's Justice: Migration, Law and order on the Alaska-Yukon Frontier, 1873-1902.// American University Studies Series XI, Vol. 34, New York: Peter Lang, 1988:122, 131-2.)) Hamilton was prepared to oppose the ruling until advised by Brown to cooperate. Brown was worried about property damage and loss of life if he protested.((Jim Wallace, //Forty Mile to Bonanza: The North-West Mounted Police in the Klondike Gold Rush.// Calgary: Bunker to Bunker Publishing. 2000: 12.))