Dutch McHenry

Dutch McHenry was a miner from the Dease Lake country who prospected in the Hess area in the 1880s. He arrived at Dease with seventy kilos of coarse gold and a map. He showed the map to a few people and then disappeared.1) Joseph Keele of the Canadian Geological Survey did the geological survey of the area and named Wilson Lake and Mount Wilson, near the headwaters of the Ross River, for Charles Wilson who trapped and prospected there between 1904 and 1908. Wilson spent much of his life looking for the lost McHenry Mine.2)

1)
Delores Smith, “More Mad Trappers.” The Yukoner Magazine, No 10, January 1999: 25-26.
2)
Mike Rourke, Rivers of the Yukon Territory: Ross River (revised). Houston, BC: Rivers North Publications, 1995. (First published in 1983)