Alexander “Alex” MacLennan (d. 1936)

Alexander MacLennan was a Scot from Glengarry, Ontario. He came over the Chilkoot Pass in 1898 and later packed goods over the trail. Alex and brother Archie worked at driving stage and delivering the mail from Dawson to Whitehorse. Alex became the fire chief in Mayo. His main job was to keep a hole open in the river ice to get water. His wife, Alice Mills, was brought over by her sister, Elizabeth, who was a waitress at the Silver City roadhouse. They were among many Irish girls who came to the Yukon. ¹⁾

Elizabeth spent her honeymoon as a cook on a scow travelling from Whitehorse to Dawson. She also worked as a warden in the Whitehorse police barracks. Alice got a job at the Silver City roadhouse after she arrived, and she met Alex there. He got a job as a winchman on the dredges in Dawson and he sent for Alice. They were married in 1914. They had cabins at Bear Creek and Hunker Creek, close to her father's work. When it was time for the children to start school, the family moved into Dawson. One of the children, Betty, married Charley Taylor. Alex died in Mayo of pneumonia, after which Alice cooked in the twenty-bed hospital in Mayo and later moved to Whitehorse to cook in the hospital there.²⁾