Oswald Sterling “OS” Finnie (1897 - 1987)
Oswald Finnie came to Dawson to serve as the Chief Clerk in William Ogilvie’s Office of the Gold Commissioner.1) He and Nelly Louise Roediger were married in 1904 and they had a son, Richard, in 1906. The family left Dawson in 1909 when Finnie was transferred to Ottawa. Finnie was an avid photographer and collector, and his albums include Yukon scenes of Dawson, Bear Creek, the Klondike gold fields, Keno, Mayo, and the Canadian Arctic.2)
O.S. Finnie became the Chief Mining Inspector of the Department of the Interior. He was appointed Director of the new Northwest Territories and Yukon Branch of the Department of the Interior in the 1920s and retired in 1931.3)