Yukon who is who

Henry Bailey (d. 1919)

Captain Henry Bailey was the master of the sternwheeler Phillip B. Low in 1898.¹⁾ In 1900, Bailey was the pilot on the sternwheeler Sybil. In 1901, he was recruited by Renwick Calderhead, the Dawson agent for Klondyke Corporation Ltd. (KCL) and sole proprietor of Lancaster and Calderhead. Bailey took over the steamer Ora. That year the little KCL boats were competing with much larger sternwheelers so small barges, built in Carcross and cheap to buy in Whitehorse, were lashed to the sides of the the Ora, Nora and Flora on the run from Whitehorse to Dawson. In May, the Ora delivered supplies to miners at the mouth of the McQuesten River on the Stewart River and in June she made a trip with a party going to Fraser Falls. The company then lost business to the much larger Prospector and all little boats were put on the Whitehorse Dawson run. The Ora ran log booms down from the mouth of the Pelly River and then wintered at Lower Laberge.²⁾

Captain Bailey was the master of the Casca in 1903, the master of the Schwatka in 1906, the master of the Norcom in 1913 and the master of the Nasutlin in 1916.³⁾ Bailey died from cancer in Mayo where his boat, the Nasutlin, was wintering. He was a junior captain, joining the British Yukon Navigation Co. when they took over the Barrington interests. He had been running boats on the Yukon River since 1898 and was a very capable master.⁴⁾