Ole Dickson (d. 1921)

Ole Dickson was born to Tom and Louise Dickson and his siblings included Dick, Babe (Southwick), Belle (Desrosiers), Sue (Van Bibber), Grace (Chambers), Ruth (Donnolly), and Kluane (Hash).1) Dickson was a well-known miner in the Whitehorse district. He was the first staker of the Rabbit’s Foot claim, on July 7, 1899, in the Whitehorse Copper Belt.2) He also staked on Big Bend Mountain, renamed Wheaton Mountain, in the Wheaton River district. He brought in samples from his property that assayed at $250 per ton in 1908.3)

In October 1921, Ole Dickson spent three weeks hunting sheep in the Kluane region with Louis Jacquot, Charlie Johnson, and an unidentified First Nation man. They were building a bridge across Wold Creek when a chunk of ice came down and knocked Ole and the unidentified man into the water. Ole was swept under the ice and he drowned.4)

1)
Whitehorse Star (Whitehorse), 100th Anniversary Special Edition, 2000.
2)
Helene Dobrowolsky and Rob Ingram, “A History of the Whitehorse Copper Belt,” DIAND Open File 1993-1 (1):2.
3)
Colin Beairsto, “Today and Tomorrow Country: Wheaton Mining History.” Prepared for Heritage Resources Unit, Yukon Government. March 2005: 19.
4)
The Whitehorse Star (Whitehorse), 25 November 1921.