Yukon who is who

Grant Kirkman

Grant and John Albert Kirkman found gold on Toulare Creek, a tributary of the Yukon River, in the summer of 1898. They named the creek after their hometown of Tulare, California.¹⁾ The brothers discovered the first gold on Kirkman Creek later that year. The creek was formally named by J.B. Tyrrell after Prof. R. Ramsay Wright of the University of Toronto.²⁾ Grant Kirkman located the upper half of Discovery claim on the re-named Kirkman Creek on 13 October 1898.³⁾ The creek did not pay for the Kirkmans and they abandoned it. The creek was worked successfully in 1914 by Joseph C. Britton and William Heas, and a small settlement grew up at the mouth.⁴⁾