George McDade (1873 – 1954)
George McDade mined in the Mount Nanson district in the early teens. Neilson, McDade and McLean worked the mouth of Eliza Creek during the winter of 1912-13. In the spring of 1912 George McDade sunk a shaft eighteen to twenty feet to bedrock, about 1 1/2 miles from Discovery Creek and recovered about $300 of gold. The largest nugget discovered in the Nansen district (to 1914) was just about one ounce and was found by Neilson and McLean on Discovery Creek.1) McDade & Neilson are included in a list of fox and mink farms in the southern Yukon, dated 1 June 1915. The McDade & Neilson farm was reported to have eight Cross fox at Carmacks.2)
George McDade was living in Whitehorse in 1954.3)