George Mitchell
	
George Mitchell was originally from Quebec City. He was one of the leaders of a party of about ninety that attempted to reach the Klondike in the winter of 1898-99. The other leaders were Cecil Merritt and Jack Patterson of Hamilton, Ontario. They ascended the Peel River and built cabins at Wind City. Merritt and Pattison got through to Dawson early in 1899 via the Bonnet Plume Pass and the Stewart River. Many of the others turned back in the spring and got to Fort McPherson where they were carried south by the Hudson’s Bay Company. Many suffered from scurvy and some of them died. Mitchel broke his leg during the winter and a First Nation woman performed surgery on him using pegs of caribou bone to join the fracture. The First Nation family nursed him through the winter, and he had a stiff leg for the rest of his life.((Charles Camsell, //Son of the North.// Toronto: The Ryerson Press, 1954: 190.))