Wilfred Gauvin (b. 1869)

Wilfred Gauvin settled on Barlow Creek, on the west side of the Clear Creek valley sometime in the first decade of the 1900s. He cooked for the Mounted Police post on the bank of the Stewart River, just below the mouth of Slough Creek. He then ran the old Barlow Roadhouse when an early road from Dawson to Mayo was in use, and lived in the roadhouse after the road lacked enough traffic to keep the roadhouse open. A fire burned the roadhouse and many other cabins in the area. He moved to a cabin on the other side of the valley for the summers and spent the winters in Dawson. Sometime in the 1940s, a new cabin was built for him by Clear Creek Placers and their employees used it as a resting place between the airstrip and the landing at the Stewart River, fourteen miles to the south. In 1948, Wilfred was able to tell geologist Hugh Bostock quite a bit of the mining history of the area.¹⁾