James A. Ritchie
	
Captain Ritchie was the master of the //Ora// in September 1898.(("A Pleasant Trip on the Ora." //Klondike Nugget// (Dawson), 3 September 1898.)) After the sternwheeler //Prospector// was built in Whitehorse in 1901 by a prominent Victoria boat builder, Capt. James A. Ritchie was given command. The //Prospector// pioneered service on the Stewart River and made the first attempts to navigate the Pelly and Macmillan rivers. William E. Meed [Yukon Dock Company] took photographs along these routes, and downstream on the Yukon River to Eagle, Alaska, a route later served by the //Prospector.// Meed complied a collection of over 200 photographs of the region and it is held at the University of Washington Libraries.((“William E. Meed Photographs.” University of Washington Libraries. 2019 website: https://content.lib.washington.edu/meedweb/index.html))

A Mr. Ritchie [unrelated?] was the manager of the Five Finger Coal Co. He located and recorded a number of claims on the left limit a few miles south of Five Fingers. Coal was also being mined at Five Fingers on a small scale.((Helene Dobrowolsky, "Carmacks & Area Historical Research Project." Notes on Mining.))