Jack M. Stewart
Jack Stewart was a one-time sparring partner of Gentleman Jim Corbett, the father of modern boxing techniques.1)
In 1900, prospectors Jack Pooley, Jack Stewart, and Ira Petty prospected on Montana Mountain, and staked the Mountain Hero claim.2) Stewart and Pooly found silver at 2,600 feet above Windy Arm on Tagish Lake in 1900. They staked Venus I and Venus II.3)
In 1910, Jack Stewart owned a freighting business hauling equipment and goods for the Conrad Mines on Montana Mountain near Carcross. He financed the building of the Caribou Hotel for Bessie and Edwin Gideon after the original building burned in 1909. The new twenty-room hotel was designed by architect J.J. Killam and included the latest in building techniques. Its final cost was about $14,000.4)
In mid-April 1910, Jack Stewart moved the Vendome Hotel thirty miles from Bennett to Carcross. The building was loaded on bobsleds, one under each corner, and six horses yanked it over the ice. The Vendome was at one time the best hostelry in Conrad. Stewart planned to use the building as a store.5) The Vendome became part of the current Matthew Watson store.