Garnet Leon Brown (1894 – 1952)

Garnet Brown was born in Tacoma, Washington to parents James and Rebecca Brown.¹⁾ They lived on Bonanza Creek in 1911.²⁾ Garnet was mining in the Dawson area in 1918 when he was drafted to serve in the First World War.³⁾ He returned to the Yukon after the war and was a watchman for B&B Ltd. in 1923-24.⁴⁾ He later returned to mining. Garnet Brown is buried in the new Yukon Order of Pioneer cemetery in Dawson.⁵⁾