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Frank Bigger

Frank Bigger and his family moved to Dyea in 1898, and Frank opened a store [trading post]. The Biggers moved to Whitehorse in 1901 after the railway was completed.¹⁾ Frank built a store on First Avenue.²⁾ Daughter Lillian married North-West Mounted Police officer Frank Harbottle in 1901.³⁾ Granddaughter Bernadine Piper's family moved to the Yukon in 1902 with the help of her grandfather Frank Bigger. Bernadine married TC Richards in 1918.⁴⁾

In 1902, Frank built a house, later called the Martha Louise Black House, on First Avenue [Front Street]. Babe Richards [Bernadine's mother] remembers the house was next to John Sewell’s Store.⁵⁾ In 1917, the Biggers moved to Washington state where they operated a greenhouse business.⁶⁾ T.C. Richards and his family moved into Frank Bigger's house in 1922 or 1923 and lived there until 1944 when they sold it to the Blacks.⁷⁾

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Shirley Culpin, “Generations Worked Here, There, Everywhere to Make Good Life.” The Whitehorse Star (Whitehorse), 18 June 1975.

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“The Fabulous TCs” in Sam Holloway, editor, The Yukon Reader, Volume Two, 2024: 54.

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Babe Richards writing to Jim Robb, “Whiter replies about the Martha Black house.” The Colourful Fiver Per Cent, Whitehorse Star (Whitehorse), May 1999.