J. Brenton Dawson
Brenton Dawson left Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island in February 1898. His party consisted of George A. Dixon, William Small, Alex McRae, Frederick B. Kennedy, and Alex Wortman. They crossed over the White Pass and arrived at Tagish Lake via the Tutshi Lake route on 24 April with oxen and cattle. It had taken them a month to reach the lake from Skagway. They built boats about thirty miles down Tagish Lake and arrived at Dawson on 17 June. With the profits from the cattle drive, Dawson and Dixon established a general store in Dawson and were conducting a thriving business by September 1898. Dawson was also working a claim on Bonanza Creek. He returned to Prince Edward Island in July 1899 and again in August 1900. Neither he nor Dixon were in Dawson by 1901. Dawson died in Brookline, Mass. in 1916.1)