Bessie Geraldine Gideon (d. 1933)
Edwin and Bessie Gideon came into the Yukon over the Dyea trail in 1898 and lived for a time in Dawson.1) In 1904, the Gideons leased the Canyon Roadhouse at Canyon River on the trail to Bullion and Ruby creeks in the Kluane region.2) In 1908, the Gideons leased the Caribou Hotel in Carcross.3)
Annie Auston owned the ground under the Caribou Hotel and the Gideons were trying to buy it when Mr. Gideon died. Mrs. Gideon could not keep up the payments, but Annie let Mrs. Gideon stay and run the hotel until she died.4) She also let Louise Dawson, the sole beneficiary of Mrs. Gideon’s will, run the hotel with her son and wife. Mrs. Gideon’s ghost is said to haunt the Caribou Hotel.((John Firth, The Caribou Hotel: Hauntings, hospitality, a hunter, and a parrot. John Firth/Caribou Hotel, 2019: 11-15, 117-18.)