Jim Thompson

The first prospectors and white trappers in the Nisutlin River area were Charlie Cole, Sandy Brown, Jim Thompson, Charlie Kraft, and Angus Ross.1) Jim Thompson discovered gold in Sidney Creek, a tributary of the Nisutlin River below Quiet Lake, in 1902. The news started a stampede in June and July 1905 when he reported paying gold returns. He also found the first gold prospects on Willow and Marble creeks in the same area.2)

1)
Catharine McClellan, My Old People’s Stories: A Legacy for Yukon First Nations. Part III: Inland Tlingit Narrators. Occasional Papers in Yukon History No 5(3). Whitehorse: Yukon Cultural Services Branch, 2007: 627-28.
2)
R. C. Coutts, Yukon: Places & Names. Sidney, B. C.: Gray’s Publishing Ltd. 1980: 241