Charles Franklin Mack

Franklin Mack was one of four Mack brothers originally from Minnesota. Before he came to the Klondike, he was an experienced camp cook in the lumber camps.¹⁾

In 1904, D.D. Caines named Frank Lake for Franklin and the Mandanna Valley for his 12-year-old daughter Gertrude Mandanna. Frank's wife, Augusta, came to Eagle Rock, below Little Salmon, in 1903 and she died the next March. The Tantalus Coal mine was taken over by Isaac Stapes of St. Paul Minnesota, distant relatives of the Macks.²⁾ Frank's wife had TB when she arrived in the Yukon to bring their daughter up to him. Frank worked for a time as a cook in a wood camp.³⁾ On September 29, 1905, Frank Mack was shot by a ball that went through the fleshy part of his neck at a wood camp nine miles below Little Salmon. Frank was bending over mending a sluice box. A First Nation boy, named Johnny, was committed for trail. There may have been no provocation as he had at various times acted queer both before and after he committed the act.⁴⁾