Howard Jimmy  
	
Howard Jimmy was at Frances Lake when the Alaska Highway came through. The Jimmy family trapline was at Frances Lake and Howard was raised there.  In the summer the family made a skin boat and set fish nets in Frances Lake. They went into the mountains in July, taking apart the boat and putting the skins up in the fish cache. They hunted moose and gophers and dried the meat in the mountains. They travelled on the rivers and lakes, going to Lower Post by boat, and then returning by foot and dog pack. The skin boat could carry the whole family and dogs. In the spring they trapped beaver, muskrat and otter. In 1949, the Hudson Bay Company post at Frances Lake closed because fur prices were too low, and people were moving to Watson Lake. It was against the law to hunt beaver, so people had to start looking for work instead of trapping. Jimmy got a job at the airport clearing bush and was transferred to Fort Nelson. He returned to Watson Lake, because his mother had cancer, and resumed trapping although there was a quota on beaver.((Yukon Anniversaries Commission. 1992 Elders Interviews. Yukon Archives, YAC Collection.))