Walter Scott “Hot Stove” Douglas (b. 1888)
Walter Douglas was a bricklayer in Liverpool, England who moved to San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake. He later moved to Dawson and became a clerk at the B&F ice cream and confectionary store. His nickname may have come from a time he had the store so hot that the goods melted.1) He was store clerk in Dawson in February 1918 when he was drafted for service in the First World War.2) Douglas was never overseas and was back in the Yukon in the 1920s. He was at Keno Hill, and worked in the Treadwell Yukon Mine as an ore sorter. He was known as an excellent soccer player. Douglas lived in a small cabin on the Mayo waterfront. Treadwell Yukon leased the property for ore storage and ordered Douglas to move his cabin. When he refused, Wernecke had a cable put around the cabin and a cat skidded it into the road. In 1938, Douglas worked on the government road crew. He worked for the Americans in Whitehorse during the Second World War. Back in Mayo, he purchased Hugh Monohan’s log cabin upstream from the Anglican Church.3)