Francis Hinds Francis Hinds was a customs officer for the North-West Mounted Police at Tagish in 1897. In 1898, Francis Rattenbury hired Hinds in Victoria as the purser of the Bennett Lake and Klondyke Navigation Co. (BLKN) sternwheeler //Nora.//.((John L. Motherwell, //Gold Rush Steamboats: Francis Rattenbury's Yukon Adventure.// John Motherwell, 2012: 24.))