Stanley Robert Churchill

Constable Churchill was in the first Yukon detachment of North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) officers to arrive at Forty Mile in 1895.1) Superintendent Constantine considered Constables Churchill and Jenkins “barrack room lawyers” who made trouble but kept themselves in the background. When gold was discovered on Bonanza Creek, NWMP members Hayne, Webster, Churchill and Wills took a week's leave and headed out to stake their own claims. Those who succeeded, hired labourers to work them.2) Churchill staked Claim 52 Above on Bonanza. 3)

1)
Helene Dobrowolsky, Law of the Yukon: A Pictorial History of the Mounted Police in the Yukon. Whitehorse: Lost Moose, 1995: 18.
2)
Jim Wallace, Forty Mile to Bonanza: The North-West Mounted Police in the Klondike Gold Rush. Calgary: Bunker to Bunker Publishing. 2000: 33.
3)
Ed and Star Jones, All That Glitters. Whitehorse: Wolf Creek Books. 2005: 292, footnote 497.