James Albert “Jack” Pringle (d. 1946)
	
Jack Pringle was born in Ontario, the son of George and Mary Pringle. His brothers John and George were missionaries in the Klondike just after the gold rush.((J. Clinton Morrison, //Chasing a Dream: Prince Edward Islanders in the Klondike.// Summerside, PEI: Crescent Isle Publishers, 2004: 138-142.)) Jack joined the North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) in 1873.((“James Albert Pringle.” North West Mounted Police Personnel Records, 1873-1904.” Library and Archives Canada, 2020 website: https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/nwmp-personnel-records/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=52546&)) He was stationed in the Yukon during the Klondike gold rush. NWMP Inspector Robert Belcher was in charge of the Chilkoot Pass and the White Pass from February to July 1898. He managed the post with Corporal Pringle and Constable Boyd. Chilkoot Camp was a twelve-foot-square shack covered with a tarpaulin and was combined customs office and quarters for Belcher and Pringle. The Crater Lake Camp on the White Pass route was four tents and was a supply depot.((Robert S. Allen, "The Mounties and the North: One Hundred Years." //Inside North,// May/June 1973: 4.)) 
	
Constable Pringle was posted at Dalton Post in the summer of 1899. The six-man detachment included one non-commissioned officer, three constables and a special constable, and they started constructing a stable and living quarters. The weather turned poor in October and all the men but Pringle and the special constable were recalled to Pleasant Camp. Pringle was commended for his management of the post.((Michael Gates, //Dalton’s Gold Rush Trail.// Whitehorse, Lost Moose, 2012: 227.)) Dalton Post and the detachments along the Dalton Trail were removed after the Alaska/Canada boundary dispute was resolved.((Michael Gates, //Dalton’s Gold Rush Trail.// Whitehorse, Lost Moose, 2012: 262.)) The Dalton Post detachment was abandoned in 1905.((“Shäwshe – Dalton Post.” Yukon Geographical Place Names Board, 2020 website: https://yukonplacenames.ca/dakeyi/maps/map6/dalton-post/)) 

Pringle left the Mounted Police in 1904.((“James Albert Pringle.” North West Mounted Police Personnel Records, 1873-1904.” Library and Archives Canada, 2020 website: https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/nwmp-personnel-records/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=52546&)) He stayed at Dalton Post and purchased the NWMP buildings in 1912.((Michael Gates, //Dalton’s Gold Rush Trail.// Whitehorse, Lost Moose, 2012: 262.)) The families of Jimmy Kane, John Kha-Sha, Parton Kane, David Hume, and Jack Pringle were based at Shäwshe/Dalton Post until the 1950s when they moved to Klukshu or Haines Junction. Cabins built by Chuck Hume and Jack Pringle are still used as fishing cabins by Champagne families.((“Shäwshe / Dalton Post.” //Dákeyi Teaching Guide,// Yukon Native Language Centre, November 2017: 44.)) Jack Pringle’s grave is located near his cabin.((Michael Gates, //Dalton’s Gold Rush Trail.// Whitehorse, Lost Moose, 2012: 262.))
	
Pringle Lake, named for Jack Pringle, is on the west side of Haines Junction near Dalton Post.((William Joseph Hulgaard and John Wesley White, //Honoured in Places: Remembered Mounties Across Canada.// Heritage House Publishing Co. 2002: 137.))

Many thanks to Michael Gates who edited this text in June, 2020.