Joseph Nepoleon Fournier (1880 – 1966)

Joseph Fournier was born in St. Lazare, Quebec to parents Philomine Audet and Napoleon Fournier. Joseph married Aglai “Margaret” Porria in 1911 in Dawson. He was a member of the Yukon Order of Pioneers and the Fraternal Order of Eagles.1)

Joe Fournier ran the Summit Hotel on the Loop Road at Hunker Summit, twenty miles southeast of Dawson, during the 1920s and into the 1950s.2) Hugh Bostock visited Joe and Mrs. Fournier at the Summit Roadhouse in 1932. Joe had a good field of oats across the road right at the summit.3) Lewis Billard took a photo of the Summit Hotel and Fournier’s house in 1949.4)

Aglai Fournier, born in 1880, died in 1946 and Joseph moved to Portland, Oregon in 1950. He became an American citizen in 1956. He married Anne Aust who had two children from a former marriage. Before his death of a heart attack, he was the manager of a Portland apartment house.5)

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“Joseph Nepoleon Fournier.” Find a Grave, 2024 website: Joseph Nepoleon Fournier (1880-1966) - Find a Grave Memorial
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Lewis Billard, “Stalking Wild Mosquitoes in the Yukon.” The Yukoner Magazine, Issue No. 12. July 1999: 17.
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H.S. Bostock, Pack Horse Tracks – recollections of a geologists life in British Columbia and the Yukon 1924 – 1954. Yukon Geoscience Forum, 1990: 88.