Charles Blaise Turgeon (1856 - 1938)
	
Charley Turgeon was born in St. Isadore, Quebec in 1856. He was a logging with Michael Brandemore (died in Dawson in 1937) before he came north.((Linda E.T. MacDonald and Lynette R. Bleiler, //Gold & Galena.// Mayo Historical Society, 1990.))

Turgeon came into the Yukon watershed with John Tremblay in 1893 and went to the new strike at Circle City, Alaska. When the Klondike stampede started, he was at Ogilvie and was too late to stake a good claim.((Linda E.T. MacDonald and Lynette R. Bleiler, //Gold & Galena.// Mayo Historical Society, 1990.)) In 1898 he obtained a homestead of 160 acres on the Yukon River. ((//Empreinte: La Presence francophone au Yukon.// Tome 2. Whitehorse: Association franco-yukonnaise, 1997: 94-96.)) He moved to Dawson and was involved in the hotel business.  He bought Claim No. 8 Above Bonanza for $65,000 and was a partner with Swiftwater Gates. He bought the sternwheeler //Golden Star,// about the size of the //Keno,// and started hauling supplies from Whitehorse.((Linda E.T. MacDonald and Lynette R. Bleiler, //Gold & Galena.// Mayo Historical Society, 1990.)) It sank on the second voyage with a cargo worth about $100,000.  After leaving Dawson, Turgeon prospected in the McQuesten River area for six or seven years. In 1908, he participated in the Dublin Creek stampede. When he married Misie, she already had three daughters: Ellen, Julia, and Suzzane. They had three more daughters: Rose (Mason-Wood), Mary (McDiarmid), and Ruth (McDonald). Between 1920 and 1926 he obtained land in the Mayo area.((//Empreinte: La Presence francophone au Yukon.// Tome 2. Whitehorse: Association franco-yukonnaise, 1997: 94-96.)) 

Joe and Maisie lived upriver from Mayo in the 1930s and cultivated a large garden.((Linda E.T. MacDonald and Lynette R. Bleiler, //Gold & Galena.// Mayo Historical Society, 1990.)) Turgeon trapped and did odd jobs around Mayo and he was still running a trap line in 1931 at age seventy-seven.((Linda E.T. MacDonald and Lynette R. Bleiler, //Gold & Galena.// Mayo Historical Society, 1990.)) Turgeon was known as a happy man with a good sense of humour. He was well respected by all and never spoke ill of anyone. He died in Mayo several years after the death of his wife.((//Empreinte: La Presence francophone au Yukon.// Tome 2. Whitehorse: Association franco-yukonnaise, 1997: 94-96.))