Yukon who is who

Henry McDame

Henry McDame was a black prospector in the Cassiar District who was famous for mining $6,000 worth of gold in thirty days.¹⁾ By 1870, prospectors had opened a trail from Telegraph Creek to Stikine and into Dease Lake. A permanent gold camp, Centreville, sprang up in the Cassiar Valley where 5,000 men prospected for gold on McDame and Dease creeks, both proven as the richest streams in the area.²⁾ Alfred Freeman discovered the largest nugget ever located in British Columbia on McDame Creek in 1877.³⁾ In 1946, Bob Kirk, a trapper at Lower Post had been aware of the asbestos on McDame Mountain, above the creek, for many years.⁴⁾