R. A. “Bill” Hayes

Bill Hayes was from England. He had been a sergeant in the Grenadier Guard at the end of the First World War. In 1931, he was the telegraph operator on the Yukon River opposite the mouth of the Big Salmon River.1)

1)
H.S. Bostock, Pack Horse Tracks – recollections of a geologists life in British Columbia and the Yukon 1924 – 1954. Yukon Geoscience Forum, 1990: 67.