George Brown (d. 1942)
George Brown and his wife Hazel, Courtland Mack’s daughter, operated the Carmacks Roadhouse, circa 1911-12.1) The Mack brothers moved the old Model Roadhouse, on the Nordenskold River, about a mile upstream to Carmacks. George and his wife ran the roadhouse and lived in a small house near the bridge. She died young [in 1925].2)
Brown’s farm was on the Nordenskiold River.3) It was on the right side of the road across from the roadhouse and the Nordenskold River.4) In 1919, Brown had ten acres under cultivation with two acres yielding fourteen tons of saleable potatoes. One acre of barley yielded two tons of green feed, one acre of oats yielded two tons of green feed, two acres of turnips yielded six tons, one acre of sundries including one and a half tons of carrots, a half ton of cabbage, and a few hundred beets, cauliflower and peas. He also had three acres of summer fallow.5)
In 1924 Brown expanded his farm by adding about thirty head of cattle and expected the herd to grow, He has an abundance of hay to feed the animals, and her grows and sells potatoes and root crops.6) In April 1925, Brown’s herd of cattle increased by seven head.7) By 1927, he was willing to trade meat for vegetables.8)
In 1931, Hugh Bostock stayed at the Nordenskiold Roadhouse, run by “old” George Brown and kept by Mrs. Waugh and her daughter. Across the road were some fallow farmland that had once yielded good crops but with ground that Bostock thought was too dry to cultivate.9) Brown was still farming in 1934.10)