Ida Mason (1869 - 1937) Ida Mason was a black woman who came to the Yukon in 1898 from Virginia. In 1901 she was single and farming in Klondike City [Tr’ochëk]. Mason died in 1937 after suffering a stroke.((//Dawson Daily News// (Dawson), 16 March 1937 in Ed and Star Jones, "Blacks in Yukon 1898-1942." June 2010.))