Charlie Rendell (1913 – 1996)
	
Charlie Rendell was born in Dawson. His parent came north to the Klondike in 1898. Charlie drove for the president of the A.N.C. Treadgold Co. at the age of twelve and worked as a surveyor, in engineering, operated a sheet metal shop that built a dredge, and then worked on it for two years.(("Fifty years together." //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 13 February 1991.)) 
	
In 1947, geologist Hugh Bostock stopped at Tenderfoot Creek where Rendell and his wife were camped with their dredge moored on a Yukon River bar. The dredge was modelled on a Klondike dredge with a bucket line and anchoring spud. The bucket line was made from several cat tracks fastened together. Each tread had a bucket of his design with a manganese steel lip. The trommel had quarter inch diameter holes. Power was supplied by three old car engines that worked the bucket line, trommel, pumps, and bucket ladder. The gold Rendell recovered was all very fine.((H.S. Bostock, //Pack Horse Tracks – recollections of a geologists life in British Columbia and the Yukon 1924 – 1954.// Yukon Geoscience Forum, 1990: 238.))

Charlie Rendell joined the Yukon Order of Pioneers in 1949 and was president and grand president in the 1960s. He was president of the Whitehorse Lodge in the late 1960s for two consecutive years and a member of the Masonic Lodge in Dawson City. He worked for the Department of Corrections in Whitehorse as a maintenance supervisor from 1966 to his retirement in 1978. His wife Amanda came to Dawson in 1937 at the age of 17. They were married in 1940. She worked for YCGC in the telephone office for 12 years and as a painting contractor. She belonged to the Eastern Star and the IODE in Dawson, and they both sang in the Anglican choir. They had two children, Bill and Pam.(("Fifty years together." //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 13 February 1991.)) 
	
Charles Rendell was interviewed by Cal Waddington for Parks and Historic Sites, July - September 1978.((Yukon Archives, Yukon River Aural History Project Acc # 81/32))