Seymour Rowlinson
	
In 1902, Seymour Rowlinson used White Pass & Yukon Route horses to bring in logs for a new roadhouse at Carmacks. White Pass bought out the Canadian Development Co. in that year. Eugene Kirkland Mack was hired to help Rowlinson.((Ida May Goulter, "History of Carmacks." September 1977. Yukon Government Heritage Branch files.)) The roadhouse location was west of the Whitehorse-Dawson Trail at the Tantalus River crossing.((Yukon Archives, YRG 1, Series 1, Vol 30, file 13866.)) Logs from the old "Model" roadhouse were used to make a long building for the independent travellers’ teams and dogs, as they were not allowed to use the White Pass stable. The Carmacks Road House was finished in 1903. There were twelve rooms and Rowlinson did all the cleaning and laundry and cut stove wood. There were six stoves in the roadhouse and two in the stables. He also waited tables, prepared meats and washed dishes. His wife only did the cooking, of which there was a lot. Each night there was ten to twenty guests. White Pass sent several men down to build the large log stable with twelve stalls.((Ida May Goulter, "History of Carmacks." September 1977. Yukon Government Heritage Branch files.))

Seymour Rowlinson named the store Carmack as he had met George Carmack at Lower Lebarge. [Carmack had a trading post at the mouth of the Nordenskiold before the gold rush.] Rowlinson sent outside for a long canvas sign and the sign painters put an "s" on Carmack, so that is how the town got its name.((Ida May Goulter, "History of Carmacks." September 1977. Yukon Government Heritage Branch files.))
	
Rowlinson applied for ten acres at the roadhouse location west of the Whitehorse-Dawson Trail at the Tantalus River crossing in March 1905. The roadhouse, store and lot were surveyed by Burwell in 1907. Seymour sold the roadhouse to his brother Cyril Rowlinson and Bill Shaw [a port steward for White Pass] in 1909.((Yukon Archives, YRG 1, Series 1, Vol 30, file 13866.))  

Seymour Rowlinson was the postmaster and a storekeeper at Carmacks in 1910. He applied for a 160-acre homestead of land around the roadhouse and barn. Over the next two years, he cleared and fenced about six acres and raised a crop of oat hay.((Yukon Archives, GOV 1648, f. 26423-1)) In 1912, Seymour Rowlinson was in Victoria with a business interest in the Victoria Book & Stationary Co.((Yukon Archives, GOV 1648, f. 26423-1))