Émile N. Fournier (b. 1919)
Émile Fournier was born in the Dawson hospital in the same year that his parents , Eugene and Gertrude Fournier, purchased the roadhouse at the east end of the Bear Creek compound. He lived there and worked at various jobs for his parents, including driving the school bus into Dawson. Fournier enlisted to serve in the Second World War in 1939. After the war he returned to Dawson with his new bride and continued to live at Bear Creek until he was transferred to a job in Edmonton about 1950. Émile worked for Yukon Consolidated Gold Corp for two summers as a truck driver and cat operator. He had meals in the bunkhouse but slept at home.1) Michael Gates met and interviewed Émile Fournier and his cousin Henri Thibault in the 1980s or 1990s when Émile returned to Dawson for a visit. The Fournier roadhouse at Bear Creek was gone by that time.2)