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Edward Pena Lopez (b. 1872)
Edward Lopez was in the Mexican army from 1885 to 1888.1) He brought dance hall girl Lulu Mae Johnson into the Yukon with a troop of entertainers in 1898.2) Lopez was a musician in Dawson in 1916.3) He was recruited to serve in the First World War by Captain George Black and was in England by August 1917.4)
2)
Charlene Porshild, “Lulu Mae Johnson.” Dictionary of Canadian Biography, 2018 website: http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/johnson_lulu_mae_14E.html; Yukon Archives, V. Faulkner MSS 135 83/50 f.4. Conversation with Al Loblay at age 91.
4)
Dawson Daily News (Dawson), 17 August 1917.
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