Frances Allen Noyes Muncaster, nee Patchen
Frances Patchen was married twice before she married Bill Muncaster in 1919. Bill and Frances Muncaster lived at Canyon City on the upper Whitehorse River in 1919 and 1920.1) In 1921, Bill Muncaster and his wife and a daughter arrived in Whitehorse with two horses, three dogs and a large outfit. He planned to establish a trading post and fox farm at Wellsley Lake, near the Donjek River.2)
The Muncasters owned a cabin near Haines, Alaska but spent much of their time hunting and travelling further north. She staked claims on Dollis Creek, British Columbia and she and Bill mined there for ten to twelve years.3)
Frances Muncaster was the first woman to hold the post of mining recorder in the Yukon. She was at Dollis Creek, just south of Dalton Post where she recorded the mining transactions of dozens of miners in the 1930s and ‘40s. She was petite and charming and had spent years living off the land in southwest Yukon and parts of Alaska.4)
Frances continued to prospect until her death in 1952.5) Bill Muncaster died in 1968.