Eli Newbrook

Corporal Newbrook was in the first Yukon detachment of North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) officers to arrive at Forty Mile in 1895.1) After gold was discovered on Bonanza Creek, Inspector Constantine allowed his NWMP officers to take time off to stake claims. E. Newbrook was among those who reported finding “good money.”2)

1)
Helene Dobrowolsky, Law of the Yukon: A Pictorial History of the Mounted Police in the Yukon. Whitehorse: Lost Moose, 1995: 18.
2)
Seattle Daily Times (Seattle), 11 September 1897; San Francisco Examiner (San Francisco), 15 July 1897; Victoria Daily Colonist (Victoria), 18 July 1897 in Ed and Star Jones, All That Glitters. Whitehorse: Wolf Creek Books, 2005: 292 (footnote #497).