Felix Boutin (b.1880)

Felix Boutin was born in Quebec.¹⁾ He staked claims near Dawson between 1904 and 1906.²⁾ He worked as a bartender at the Brunswick Hotel in Dawson between 1907 and 1910.³⁾ He was still working as a bartender in Dawson in 1911 when he was a single man living on 8th Avenue.⁴⁾ He enlisted to serve in the First World War, left the Yukon with Boyle’s Yukon detachment, and was training in Shorncliffe, England by August 1915.⁵⁾ Felix Boutin, Kenneth Currie, Sergeant Larry Peppard, and Private Morris Anthony were together in their trench in May 1918 when a sniper's bullet struck Anthony in the mouth.⁶⁾