Alfred Dickson
Alfred Dickson started raising mink in 1920 with just seven animals.1) The Whitehorse newspaper announced that Alfred Dickson started a new industry for the Yukon when he established the Tagish Fur Ranch at Tagish in the fall of 1924. Dickson had a few foxes, but his speciality was raising mink.2) In October 1925, Dickson shipped sixty-five live mink to a new mink ranch starting up near Juneau and the Mendenhall Glacier.3) In December 1924, Alfred Dickson sold his successful mink farm to J. G. Williams and Eugene Brisson, of Petersburgh, Alaska.4) In April 1929, Dickson bought a new Chevrolet light truck and was busy freighting over the ice from Carcross to his Tagish ranch.5)