Norton Turner “Nort” Townsend (B. 1894)

Norton Townsend was born in Victoria, British Columbia.¹⁾ His parents were Turner and Frances Townsend. Turner Townsend came to Dawson in 1897 and his sons, Norton and Alfred, attended school and played hockey there.²⁾ Both boys enlisted to serve in the First World War with the George Black contingent in 1916 and Norton wrote many letters back home to his mother and grandmother. They were dated April 1919 through February 1919. One letter to his father was written after the end of the war. In June 1918, he referred to the federal election where Alfred Thompson won the Conservative seat with the support of the military vote. Both he and his brother survived the war and returned to the Yukon. Returned soldier Turner Townsend was employed by the Yukon Government in the school.³⁾ In 1923-24, Townsend was operating a general store at Keno Hill.⁴⁾