Yukon who is who

A. B. Lewis

A.B. Lewis was the White Pass & Yukon Route railway civil engineer in charge of the Carcross-Whitehorse Rapids survey in 1899. He underestimated the cost for construction because he was unaware of large interlocking tracts of permafrost along the proposed line. He designed a trench at the southern end of Lewis Lake to drop the water ten feet, but the ground eroded quickly, and the water level dropped seventy feet. Despite this major set-back, Lewis’ crews completed the line survey from Carcross to Whitehorse in mid-October and started a survey for the twenty-seven mile stretch along the eastern shore of Lake Bennett.¹⁾

Lewis Lake, with access from the South Klondike Highway, is now called Lewes Lake.