Tom Smith (d. 1925)
	
Tom Smith started a permanent settlement at Ross River in 1901 when he moved his fishing camp from the mouth of Mica Creek, fifty miles up the Pelly River. About fifteen First Nation families wintered over at Smith's Landing that year. In 1902, Smith brought in supplies on three visits from the steamer //La France,// carrying Klondike stampeders who had heard rumours of gold in the region.((Norman Kagan, //A History of Ross River.// Web page © 1999, Dr. Norman E. Kagan.)) 

By 1903, Joe Coté had established a rival trading post across the river on the Pelly's west side. Coté was a French Canadian who had been a telegraph lineman at Fort Selkirk. That summer Fred Envoldsen returned to the area with paying stampeders from Dawson on the rented steamer //Wilbur Crimmin.// Most of the prospectors left but Envoldsen stayed and later brought up his wife Mary. This influx of people was too much for Tom Smith, who moved to the Teslin Lake area, after selling his trading post to Clement Lewis and his partner Poole Field.((Norman Kagan, //A History of Ross River.// Web page © 1999, Dr. Norman E. Kagan.)) 

In August 1910, Tom Smith, owner and master of the launch //Frontiersman,// made a trip to Whitehorse to pick up a cargo of merchandise for the trading post he was opening in Teslin.((//The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 5 August 1910.)) In 1912, Clement Lewis left Ross River to oversee Taylor and Drury’s post at Teslin Lake, newly purchased from Tom Smith.((Norman Kagan, //A History of Ross River.// Web page © 1999, Dr. Norman E. Kagan.))