Everett J. Ward (d. 1934)
	
Everett Ward joined the North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) in 1890.((Dawson City Museum vertical files.)) Constable Ward was in the first North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) Yukon contingent at Fort Constantine. They left Regina by train and arrived at Forty Mile on 24 July 1895 via the Yukon River.((Helene Dobrowolsky, //Law of the Yukon: A Pictorial History of the Mounted Police in the Yukon.// Lost Moose, 1995: 18.)) 

Inspector Constantine allowed his NWMP officers to take time off to stake claims during the early days of the Klondike gold rush and Ward staked Claim 38 Above on Bonanza Creek.((//Seattle Daily Times// (Seattle), 11 September 1897; //San Francisco Examiner// (San Francisco), 15 July 1897; //Victoria Daily Colonist// (Victoria), 18 July 1897 in Ed and Star Jones, //All That Glitters.// Whitehorse: Wolf Creek Books, 2005: 292 fn497.)) He recovered enough gold to buy himself out of service.((Dawson City Museum vertical files.)) 

Ward was on the Portland when it docked in Seattle on 17 July 1897 along with other NWMP officers who had staked claims. Ex-Constable Ward had $18,000. Ward had cleaned up on Claim No. 88 on Bonanza Creek and had an interest in No. 50.((Jim Wallace, //Forty Mile to Bonanza: The North-West Mounted Police in the Klondike Gold Rush.// Calgary: Bunker to Bunker Publishing. 2000: 46-47.)) Ward returned to Kentville in 1899 and married Elizabeth Redded and then returned to the Klondike. His three brothers went back with him and they built a cabin on the Klondike River about sixteen miles from Dawson. They worked the claims for about four or five years, and all were successful, especially Everett. They returned to Kentville in 1904 and he became influential in the town's development. Elizabeth Street was named after Ward’s wife and Klondyke was both a street and a section in town. Everett built a store and had a large home on Prospect Street.((Dawson City Museum vertical files.))