James T. Gray (1852 -1928)

Captain James Gray was the superintendent of the Northern Navigation Co. fleet of fifty-three steamers and barges. White Pass & Yukon Route bought out the Northern Navigation Co. in 1913 and the sternwheeler Tanana was put on the Upper Yukon with Captain James T. Gray as captain and employee. On the trip from Dawson to Whitehorse, Gray drew a chart that became official for all boats. His charts were hand-coloured by his daughters, May and Grace, when he was home for the winter. His drawings are at the University of Oregon. James Gray retired in 1917 and went out to his farm near Portland, Oregon where he lived a “great many” more years.1)

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From the James T. Gray Collection at the University of Oregon Archives in Arthur E. Knutson, Steamer Koyukuk: She Who Dared and Her Captain James T. Gray. Kirkland, Washington: Knutson Enterprises, 1997: I-1,37, 83-87, 89, 105-6.