George Lucas

Sam McGee staked the War Eagle claim in the Whitehorse Copper Belt in 1899. The mine was not developed until Caldwell, Poyntz, Lucas, and Kesler took it over in 1907.1) The War Eagle mine was one mile west of the Copper King and one mile north of Pueblo Mine. It was estimated that more than 1,000 tons of ore were shipped.2)

George Lucas served in the First World War. He was with Boyle’s Yukon Motor Machine Gun Battery and then the Canadian Machine Gun Corps.3)

1)
R. G. McConnell, The Whitehorse Copper Belt: Yukon Territory. Canada Department of Mines. Ottawa: 1909: 52.
2)
E.D. Kindle, “Copper and iron Resources, Whitehorse Copper Belt. Yukon Territory.” Geological Survey of Canada Paper 63-41, 1964: 17. Includes map.
3)
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