Edward R. Featherstone
Ed Featherstone and his common-law wife Ellen McKinlay operated the Hungry Lake Trading Post in the Blackstone River country. The lake was focal point for Dawson trappers in the 1930s and ‘40s including Featherstone, Chappie Chapman [trader not trapper], and George Fulton. Featherstone was the only one who lived there, and he ran his trading post until the spring of 1943. Fulton and Feather stone had a business arrangement. In 1940, Louis Dumas had a permit to run a trading post at the mouth of the Blackstone River. After being convicted of shooting beaver, he requested the government transfer his trading licence to Edward Featherstone. Ed left the Yukon in 1943 to join the air force for service in the Second World War. Ellen died in a house fire in Yellowknife in 1949.1)