Thomas McCabe
Thomas McCabe first applied for land in Minto area for agriculture in September 1902.1) McCabe was an ex-woodchopper from Minto, and he opened a roadhouse at the junction of McCabe Creek and the Dawson Trail about 1902.2)
In 1903, Thomas McCabe of Edmonds, British Columbia applied to purchase sixty acres above Old Minto, sixty acres near Old Minto, ten acres three miles above Old Minto, and thirty acres above Old Minto. He paid for the land, but it was never surveyed. The 160-acre homestead was three miles above Minto on the right limit of the Lewes River. In 1907, he was not living there and there was no house, so his rights to the land were forfeited.3)
Between 1908 and 1910, Mr. H.F. Miller leased McCabe's two-story roadhouse on a ten-acre tract and the 120-acre homestead with fifteen acres under cultivation, and McCabe moved to British Columbia.4) H. F. Miller applied for McCabe’s land in 1910.5)