Charles Wilson (d. 1939)
	
Charles Wilson was originally from Texas.((Linda E.T. MacDonald and Lynette R. Bleiler, //Gold & Galena.// Mayo Historical Society, 1990: 472.)) In 1907, he travelled up the Ross River with Joseph Keele’s survey party.((J. Keele, "Explorations on the Pelly, Ross and Gravel rivers, in the Yukon and Northwest Territories." Sessional Paper No 28. Geological Survey, Department of Mines. 1909: 33-4.)) Wilson was known to be searching for the lost McHenry Mine somewhere between the Macmillan and the headwaters of the Nahanni River.((J. Keele, //A reconnaissance across the Mackenzie Mountains on the Pelly, Ross and Gravel Rivers, Yukon Territory and the Northwest Territories.// Geological Survey of Canada Publication No 1097. Ottawa, 1910: 50 in G.P. Kershaw and L. J. Kershaw, "A National Historic Resource: the Canol Project, Northwest Territories." Yellowknife: Government of the Northwest Territories, 1982: 2.))
	
Wilson occasionally traded at Lansing Post on the Stewart River and always paid in gold. One year he left Mervyn's Lansing post with a pack and a pack dog and was not seen again for eleven years.((Linda E.T. MacDonald and Lynette R. Bleiler, //Gold & Galena.// Mayo Historical Society, 1990: 472.)) He reappeared one day with his dog as if nothing had happened.((Delores Smith, "More Mad Trappers." //The Yukoner Magazine,// No 10, January 1999: 25-26.)) He brought in fifty to sixty pounds of the richest samples ever seen in the Mayo office. He lived near Mayo for a time but returned to Lansing in 1939.((Linda E.T. MacDonald and Lynette R. Bleiler, //Gold & Galena.// Mayo Historical Society, 1990: 472.)) He was found at Lansing with only some fox meat for food. He had fed everything he had to his dog, who remained healthy, while he starved to death.((Delores Smith, "More Mad Trappers." //The Yukoner Magazine,// No 10, January 1999: 25-26.))