Percy DeWolfe Jr. (b. 1916)
Percy DeWolfe Jr. was born in the Yukon to Percy and Jessie DeWolfe. He grew up at Halfway House on the Yukon River below Dawson. DeWolfe remembers running the mail twice for his father in the mid-1930s, both times in the winter. He was already working for Yukon Consolidated Gold Corp at the time. The second time he did it, nothing went right. The two youngest dogs wanted to be with their mother who had been left at home lame. At Forty Mile, Pete Anderson, his father's one-time partner, gave him two big replacement dogs. He left Forty Mile in a blizzard and it turned into a whiteout where he had to feel for the hardened trail. He was supposed to deliver something to ex-RCMP officer Claude Tidd near Twelvemile River but on this river his lead dog just turned around. After that people weren't where they were expected to be, and the trip was very difficult. He was a day late coming back to Dawson and his father was so worried he said he would rather be on the trail than worried about his son. That was the last trip that Percy Junior did.1)
DeWolfe served in the Second World War and arrived in France just thirty days after D-Day so he got home without a scratch. He landed at Halifax and hitchhiked to Wolfville to see his father’s home country. After the war, Percy worked at a number of jobs, retiring in 1976 from a stint as a plumber with the Ministry of Transport. Percy and his wife Ruth retired to Qualicum Beach, British Columbia.2)