Henry Schmidt
	
Henry Schmidt worked for YCGC in the late 1930s. He met Ernie and Art Barz and they prepared to go trapping in the winter of 1938. Chappie Chapman helped them get around the legal restrictions for trapping by advising them to get prospecting permits. They were flown into the Bonnet Plume country by pilot Everett Wasson. The lake they landed on, about three miles west of the river, would later be named Chappie Lake.((Don Barz, //Yukon Wanderlust.// Celticfrog Publishing, 2021: 73, 79-81, 91-92.))

One winter was enough for Henry and he left the Bonnet Plume country with Johnny Semple who was meeting a plane on the Blackstone River. Schmidt went back to Dawson and worked again for YCGC before moving to Whitehorse.((Don Barz, //Yukon Wanderlust.// Celticfrog Publishing, 2021: 73, 79-81, 91-92.)) 

Henry’s son John Schmidt, who worked as a mechanic for many years out of Dawson, says his father had placer claims on Sulphur Creek in the late 1930 or early 1940s.((John Schmidt in conversation with Sally Robinson.)) Henry had several well-paying jobs during the construction of the Alaska Highway and with his earned money bought an orchard in Kelowna.((Don Barz, //Yukon Wanderlust.// Celticfrog Publishing, 2021: 92.))