Charles Irvain Tennant (1864 – 1959)
	
Charles Tennant was a North-West Mounted Police constable under Colonel Steele at Tagish in 1898. He paid his way out of the service and went to work in the Dawson Gold Commissioner’s office.((“Yukoners at the front in the great war.” //Dawson Daily News// (Dawson), 17 August 1815.)) He left Dawson enroute to Ottawa to join the second Canadian contingent commissioned for active duty in the Transvaal during the Boer War.((Misc. news clipping in the search file at Yukon Archives.)) He was also a veteran of the First World War.((“Yukoners at the front in the great war.” //Dawson Daily News// (Dawson), 17 August 1815.)) 

Tennant bought the Straight's Second Hand store from Yoneda Okada in April 1931.((Victoria Faulkner, "Historic Buildings." National Historic Site Division, National Parks Branch.)) In 1937, Tennant was acting as past president of the Yukon Order of Pioneers.((Michael Gates, “Every photo has a story to tell, sometimes more than one.” //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 13 October 2023.)) He never failed to turn out for the pioneer meetings and was always on hand to help when work needs to be done.(("Traditions of YOOP, famous northern lodge, carried on by sons of pioneers at Dawson." //The Alaska Weekly// (Seattle), 1947 in the Yukon Pioneers search file at Yukon Archives.)) 

By 1947, Tennant was Dawson’s largest individual property owner.(("Traditions of YOOP, famous northern lodge, carried on by sons of pioneers at Dawson." //The Alaska Weekly// (Seattle), 1947 in the Yukon Pioneers search file at Yukon Archives.))The Charles Tennant fonds at the Yukon Archives includes correspondence, business records and photographs. The records were removed from Tennant's cabin by the Glenbow Foundation in 1959. The final clearing of papers from his cabin was done with shovels, as the papers had become pressed to the floor over the years. The records were transferred to the Yukon Archives in 1995.((Yukon Archives, Charles Tennant fonds 95/33.))