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William Henry Trewolla Olive (1865-1940)
W.H.T. Olive was born and raised in Turo, Cornwall. He apprenticed in woodwork and architecture. He immigrated to Victoria, British Columbia and worked on the Parliament buildings. Francis Rattenbury hired Olive in 1897 and sent him to the Yukon to build boats for Rattenbury’s Bennett Lake & Klondyke Navigation Co. (BL&KN). Olive's wife, Sarah, followed him to the Yukon and they had their fifth child there. 1)
Olive arrived in Slagway in January 1898 with a small contingent of men and steamboat materials. The party waited there, living in tents, until the main shipment of materials arrived in mid-February. Rattenbury had contracted Bannerman and Bryce of Victoria to transport the timbers and machinery to Skagway and over the pass to Bennett.2)
The Olives lived in Atlin until 1904 and then moved to Carbon, Alberta to homestead.3)