Yukon who is who

Jeremiah “Jerry” Doody

Jerry Doody came to the Yukon in 1897. He was a machinist and a boilermaker by occupation. He mined with Hamacher at Hamacher's gold claims in the Kluane area in 1904. Doody was the first official photographer for the White Pass & Yukon Route. He was a photographer in Whitehorse in 1905 and was in Dawson from December 1911 to about 1917. His studio was at the corner of Queen and 7th Avenue in Dawson and he sold prints of landscapes and portraits. Doody spent twenty-one years taking photographs and prospecting in the north. He retired to Oakland, California.¹⁾