Scammel McMaster
Scammel McMaster took the sternwheeler Bailey through Miles Canyon in May 1898.(Knutson, Can We Do It (page 5) in Jerry Green, Yukon Riverboat Captains, 2020 website: http://www.users.muohio.edu/greenje/)) Jeremiah Lynch listed McMaster as captain of the sternwheeler Canadian in 1899 and 1900.1)
The Bonanza King struck the reef in Rink Rapids on May 29th, 1907 and sunk. It had 100 tons of coal on board and the barge had 200 tons of commercial coal for Dawson. Capt. McMaster got the Whitehorse halfway through Lake Laberge and the crew under Capt. Bloomquist took canoes from there. They arrived at the wreck on June 1. When the Whitehorse returned, Capt. McMaster advised that it was possible to get a boat through and the Victorian was commissioned and loaded with a wrecking outfit.2)
Captain McMaster, an old timer with the British Yukon Navigation (BYN) Co., retired in the spring of 1920.3)