Yukon who is who

Thomas Albert Dickson (1871 - 1939)

Thomas Dickson was probably born in Massachusetts and was brother to Henry G. Dickson. The family moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba where their father worked on the railroad. In 1894, Thomas became a Manitoba Provincial Land Surveyor like his brother but he specialized as a civil engineer. Thomas and Henry came north in early 1898. For nearly forty years they worked together but Thomas also did some work on his own. In the fall of 1905, he led a crew of ten men doing work on the Hell’s Gate river channel, driving piles and constructing dams to direct water into the main channel. He had a serious operation in Vancouver in 1927 and left the Yukon again in 1939 for some medical treatment. He returned to Whitehorse in April and passed away at the Whitehorse Inn. He is buried in the Masons’ section of the Pioneer Cemetery in Whitehorse. He left his house in Dawson to his brother Henry.¹⁾