Sam Smith Eisul

Sam Smith was a member of the Teetł’it Gwich'in First Nation and one of the earliest Indigenous men to work as a special constable for the North-West Mounted Police. Smith helped guide one of the first Fort McPherson-Dawson patrols and worked as a special constable in Moosehide for many years [in the 1920s].1) Daisy Smith was born in Tagish and grew up in in the Carcross/Tagish area. She married Sam Smith, and they settled in the Little Atlin area.2) In 1946, Patsy Henderson and Sam Smith advertised their guiding and boat rental business on Little Atlin Lake.3)

1)
Brigitte D. Parker, “Unlocking the north for the RCMP.” Our Home, Vol.1, No.1, Spring/Summer 1999: 32-33.
2)
Andrea Buckley, “We salute you!” The Yukon News (Whitehorse), 18 October 1996.
3)
The Whitehorse Star (Whitehorse), 31 May 1946.