mc:g_mcdade
George McDade (1873 – 1954)
George McDade mined in the Mount Nanson district in the early teens. Neilson, McDade and McLean worked the mouth of Eliza Creek during the winter of 1912-13. In the spring of 1912 George McDade sunk a shaft eighteen to twenty feet to bedrock, about 1 1/2 miles from Discovery Creek and recovered about $300 of gold. The largest nugget discovered in the Nansen district (to 1914) was just about one ounce and was found by Neilson and McLean on Discovery Creek.1) McDade & Neilson are included in a list of fox and mink farms in the southern Yukon, dated 1 June 1915. The McDade & Neilson farm was reported to have eight Cross fox at Carmacks.2)
George McDade was living in Whitehorse in 1954.3)
1)
D. D. Cairnes, “Exploration in Southwestern Yukon” in Yukon Territory, Selected Field Reports of the Geological Survey of Canada, compiled by H. S. Bostock. Ottawa: 1957: 374.
2)
Yukon Archives, Gov 1963. YRG 1 Series 5 Vol. 17 file 936.
3)
Margaret Crook, Norma L. Felker, and Helen Horback, Lost Graves. Whitehorse: City of Whitehorse, 1989: 115.
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