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Albert H. Day (b. 1860)
Al Day was born in St. Hyacinthe, Quebec. Brothers Hugh and Al prospected and were successful miners in the Stikine River area of British Columbia in the early 1880s. In 1884, the Days prospected in the Yukon River drainage and came out to the coast, presumably Juneau [or Sitka] in the fall. In spring 1885, they partnered with Ike Powers and the brothers continued to explore the interior for the next ten years. In 1893, the Days prospected along the Stewart River and that year they met and married two French Canadian girls.1) They successfully bar mined on the Stewart River in 1885 [and 1886]. They were rocking on a bar twelve miles up the Stewart when the steamer New Racket came past with Jack McQuesten and Thomas Boswell.2) They spent the winter of 1885/86 at Fort Reliance.3)
At some point in 1886, they worked at Joe Ladue’s trading post at the mouth of the Sixtymile River. Al was injured when a sawblade came apart, lodging a piece of steel in his forehead. He was shipped down to the North-West Mounted Police post at the mouth of the Fortymile River where Doctor Wills removed the steel.4)
In June 1896, the Day brothers were mining on Miller Creek in the Sixtymile River drainage.5) They stampede to the Klondike when gold was discovered there. Brothers Hugh and Al mined Claims No. 30 and No. 31 Below Bonanza Discovery and Claim No. 11 on Bear Creek. They also made an application for land that became the Day Addition to the Harper and Ladue Townsite.6)