George Ferguson Potter (d. 1946)
	
George Potter was born in Buckingham, in the Ottawa Valley of Quebec. George’s brother Bob was one of the founders of the Potter-Dole Mines. George came to the Yukon over the Chilkoot Pass and was involved in the 1901 stampede to Duncan Creek in the Mayo mining district. He staked #10 Above Discovery on Minto Creek in 1902. George and his wife Lena had a house in Mayo. Their child, Myrtle Mayo, was born in 1903. In 1905, the family was living at Duncan Creek when Lena became seriously ill after a miscarriage and died in January 1906. Myrtle went to live with relatives in Vancouver and by 1938 she was in Buckingham.((Linda E.T. MacDonald and Lynette R. Bleiler, //Gold & Galena.// Mayo Historical Society, 1990: 438-39.))

In the mid-1930s, Potter, Jack Alverstone, and a younger Cecil Poli went to Arizona Creek with dog teams and supplies. They repaired a large cabin built by the original prospectors and settled down to stay three or four years. They prospected Josephine Creek on the Little South Klondike River and Gem Creek, a pup of Sprague Creek, and mined on Arizona. They built other cabins, one the summit between Hobo Creek and the main South Klondike River and at the mouth of Sprague Creek.((H.S. Bostock, //Pack Horse Tracks – recollections of a geologists life in British Columbia and the Yukon 1924 – 1954.// Yukon Geoscience Forum, 1990: 200.))

In 1938, Potter was mining on Haggart Creek with the support of F.B. Towsley of Chicago. Potter hauled in eight and a half tons of equipment including two heavy-duty trailer sleds. His brother Ed came up to work with him. His sister, Lily McDermid, was Roy McDermid’s mother.((Linda E.T. MacDonald and Lynette R. Bleiler, //Gold & Galena.// Mayo Historical Society, 1990: 438-39.))
	
In April 1946, George Potter was fatally shot as he lay in bed in his hotel room in Mayo. Peter Nord was arrested and there was a theory that the tragedy occurred as the result of dispute over gold claims recently staked on Johnson Creek.((//The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 19 April 1946.))