Warburton Mayer Pike (1861 - 1915)
	
Warburton Pike was born in Dorsetshire, England and attended Oxford University for a time before he quit and immigrated to Canada.((Allen A. Wright, //Prelude to Bonanza.// Sidney, B.C.: Gray's Publishing Ltd. 1976: 239-45.)) Pike inherited a fortune when he was a young man and travelled widely through his life. He was often the first to write about the places he visited and his travelogues were widely read.((“Warburton Pike.” //Wikipedia,// 2019 website:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warburton_Pike))  He travelled into the Northwest Territories in search of muskox and described the trip in an 1892 book. His next trip was to be in the 1874 steps of geologist George Dawson.((Allen A. Wright, //Prelude to Bonanza.// Sidney, B.C.: Gray's Publishing Ltd. 1976: 239-45.)) 

Pike left Victoria in July 1892 and arrived at Lower Post during the same summer. He set out over the Frances Lake trail in January 1893 but aborted his plans due to the weather and prospected up the Hyland River instead. He started out again in the late winter and cached supplies and a canoe at False Canyon on the Frances River. Pike returned to Lower Post and met his partner and then returned to reach Frances Lake on April 18th. He explored the headwaters of the Pelly River.((Dick North, "The Frances Lake Trail" Prepared for YTG Renewable Resources, 1986: 14-18.)) Pike made the important discovery that the main course of the Pelly River was not through the Pelly Lakes, as previous maps had indicated.  The partners reached Fort Selkik and the relative luxury of Harper's Trading Post on July 8th. They also stopped at Ladue's new post at the Sixtymile.((Allen A. Wright, //Prelude to Bonanza.// Sidney, B.C.: Gray's Publishing Ltd. 1976: 239-45.)) Pike wrote a book about his journey through the Yukon and into Alaska, via the Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers, called //Through the Sub-Arctic Forests.// The book was published by Edward Arnold in 1896. 

Pike committed suicide in the sea at Bournemouth after being refused by the army for ill health during the First World War. There is memorial to him at Dease Lake, British Columbia, a mountain on Saturna Island is named for him, as is a historically important portage between Great Slave Lake and Artillery Lake in the NWT.((“Warburton Pike.” //Wikipedia,// 2019 website:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warburton_Pike))