Yukon who is who

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Dan Coates

Otto Kastner and Dan Coates became the Royal Mail contractors on the Dawson-Whitehorse Overland Trail in 1920.¹⁾ Greenfield and Pickering took over the Mayo-Dawson mail contract from Coates & Kastner when motorised transport took over the ore haul.²⁾ In 1924 or 1925 Coates was living in Dawson. He used a carriage and a pony to get around. He had horses and used them to haul freight and wood. He hauled freight out to the camps for White Pass & Yukon Route. They met the steamers and hauled to wherever with the wagon. Coates had a sawdust sledge. He cut ice and stored it in the sawdust. When the steamer came in, he would take the ice down and they would use it to keep the meat cool.³⁾