Daniel Gerald Snure (1863 – 1940)
Dan Snure was born at Jordan, Ontario.1) He boarded a ship from Portland, Oregon to Alaska in August 1897 to join the Klondike gold rush with his partner Ned Dycer.2) Snure, with partners Dycer and Arthur Manners, first settled at Hootalinqua where they operated a roadhouse for the early stampeders. After the traffic moved to the overland trail, Snure left for Livingstone Creek [in 1899] where he mined and operated a hotel.3)
Snure's Livingstone roadhouse was built around 1905. It had a bar that offered whiskey.4) In 1910, the Whitehorse newspaper described Snure as a miner, merchant, and hotelman from Livingstone. He was in Whitehorse on one of his semi-annual trips.5) Snure ran the Livingstone roadhouse from 1899 to 1912.6) He was a general merchandiser for a mining supplies office, an agent for Dominion Telegraph, and Livingstone’s postmaster.7) He was also a miner and, in 1914, was driving an adit into the hillside on Livingstone Creek below the A.C. claims to tap a bench pay streak.8)
Snure left Livingstone for Carmacks where he managed the Taylor and Drury store. He had started for the Klondike in 1898 but did not arrived until 1936 when he went down to have his teeth fixed.9) Dan Snure stayed in Carmacks until a terminal illness brought him to Whitehorse.10) For a time, he operated a black fox farm on the Yukon River just below the Whitehorse General Hospital.11) Snure was a Mason and is buried in the Whitehorse Mason’s plot. He left relatives in Vancouver and Eastern Canada.12)