George Gordon

George Gordon homesteaded Gordon's Landing on the Stewart River in 1902.1) In 1904, Messrs. Gordon and Davidson located and cut out a route for an all-season road from Gordon to Duncan creek, eleven miles away. Dominion Land Surveyor Joseph Keele thought it was a practical solution and a shorter route than the one available at the time.2) Gordon mined for a time on Barker Creek in 1908.3) During the 1913 rush to the Chisana diggings in Alaska, George Gordon was at Donjek with a large stock of goods, and he established the first store. Others had some goods cached there for the winter.4) Gordon moved to Mayo around 1915.5)

1) , 3) , 5)
Linda E.T. MacDonald and Lynette R. Bleiler, Gold & Galena. Mayo Historical Society, 1990: 379.
2)
Joseph Keele, “The Duncan Creek Mining District” in H. S. Bostock, ed., Yukon Territory: Selected Field Reports of the Geological Survey of Canada 1898 to 1933. Geological Survey of Canada, 1973: 143.
4)
“Back after a trip up the White River.” Dawson Daily News (Dawson), 19 August 1913.