Arthur Creighton McCullum (1894 - 1960)

Arthur McCullum attended Wycliffe College in Toronto and graduated with a diploma in 1925.¹⁾ McCullum and helpers built the first hospital at Aklavik in 1925.²⁾ He arrived in Old Crow in July 1926, replacing Reverend George Moody, and was ordained as an Anglican priest on August 1 at Old Crow. A new church, built by subscription, opened in October 1926.³⁾ Rev. McCullum was sworn in as a justice of the peace at Rampart House in June 1928. This was an effort to prevent gambling and stop the unlawful trade in liquor across the Alaska-Yukon border in the vicinity of the community.⁴⁾ He stayed at Rampart until July 1928 and no one replaced him until Julius Kendi arrived in the summer of 1929.⁵⁾

Rev. McCullum served in Mayo from 1929 to 1934 and then he and his wife moved to Dawson in 1936.⁶⁾ Arthur and Charlotte McCullum left Dawson and the Yukon in 1940.⁷⁾ Rev. McCullum’s son, Jim McCullum, was working at as a student missionary in Mayo in 1959.⁸⁾ Charlotte E. (Jean) McCullum died in 1983.⁹⁾

McCullum’s diaries at the Yukon Archives cover his assignments in Old Crow, Rampart House, Mayo, and Dawson.¹⁰⁾