Louis Eugene Belney (b. 1870)

Louis Eugene Belney was born in France.¹⁾ He came into the Yukon over the Chilkoot Pass in 1899.²⁾ He was a miner and a woodcutter in the Whitehorse area between 1909 and 1916.³⁾ Belney was a contractor in Whitehorse in October 1916 when he enlisted to serve in the First World War.⁴⁾ Belney returned to Whitehorse after the war. There were only two cases in the Whitehorse Mining District of soldiers whose mineral claims were exempted and have since applied for Certificates of Work: Louis Eugene Belney and Isaac Liard Gillespie. Both were pleased to have all of their claims fall due on the same date.⁵⁾ Times were hard after the war, and Belney got into trouble for cutting wood without a permit. He claimed the amount was too small to count and said there was no other work available.⁶⁾