Robert Sheardown
	
Bob Sheardown was working at Elsa around 1929 when he decided to go prospecting. He knew nothing about living in the bush, so he asked nineteen-year-old JJ Van Bibber to go with him to the Hess River. They chartered a plane to take them from Mayo to Detour Lakes just around Christmas. They tried digging prospect holes and then gave up and started trapping. JJ shot an old wolf with his little 22 rifle and the pelt skinned out to nine feet. Sheardown kept the pelt and later, when he was running the laundromat in Whitehorse, would bring it out to tell the story to amaze his friends. The two men were stuck in the bush until June when the lakes thawed, and the plane could land to take them back to Mayo.((JJ Van Bibber and Naill Fink, ed., //I was born under a spruce tree.// Vancouver: Talus Publishing Group, 2012: 50-51.)) Robert and his wife Margaret had two sons, Daniel Franklin (Danny) and Benjamin (Benny).((“Daniel Franklin Sheardown.” 2020 website: http://www.inmemoriam.ca/view-announcement-335137-daniel-franklin-sheardown.html.))