George Fairclough
George Fairclough married May, a daughter of Ira and Eliza Van Bibber.1) George and May Fairclough bought the Pelly Farm in 1927. George Fairclough freighted on the river and was in the wood business as well as wintering government horses. He cut the wood and built a spacious home of 6×6 squared timbers with five bedrooms for his family. In 1940, the Faircloughs sold the farm to J.C. Wilkinson and his family.2)
During the Second World War, Fairclough hauled freight from Fort Selkirk to Ross River for the CANOL Project. There is a photo of his boat with a barge full of drums labelled PRA [Public Roads Administration], ca. 1942-44.3) When a railway line was surveyed along what is now the Robert Campbell Highway, Fairclough, living in Carmacks, ferried men and supplies on the Pelly River using his boat, the Pelly #5.4)
Fairclough established a trading post on the Tummel River in the 1940s. The post was taken over by K. Kelly and Bill Harris in 1944 and closed for good in 1946. The post is sometimes referred to as Kelly's Glenyon Trading Post and the last of the buildings went into the Tummel River about 1990. An old First Nation trail cut off below Tummel River and connected Tatlamain Lake to Minto and Selkirk.5)
George Fairclough prospected in the Carmacks, Ketza River, and White River areas from the early 1920s to the 1970s. He was installed in the Yukon Prospectors Hall of Fame for his contributions to the Yukon.6)