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Henry Cranston Henderson
Henry Henderson was a riverboat pilot on the Pelly, a sternwheeler owned by Harper and Ladue.1) In the early spring of 1911, Captain Henderson was in charge of a barge loaded with the property of the Boundary Survey Corps. It was wrecked on the Yukon River between Hootalinqua and the Big Salmon River.2) Henderson left the Yukon in 1912 to homestead in Grande Prairie.3)
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“Yukon River Disasters Very Numerous.” The Weekly Star, 26 May 1911. 2020 website http://www.explorenorth.com/library/history/yukon_river_disasters-1911.html
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