DEATHS AND DEPARTURES:

Clary Craig, a post office worker in Dawson City, maintained a list of people leaving the Klondike by death or departure. Many of the almost 14,000 entries list forwarding addresses or destinations for those leaving the Klondike. The predominance of Nome, Alaska as one listed destination is consistent with other historical records documenting a mass exodus from Dawson to Nome in 1899. Like a giant nomadic tribe, thousands streamed toward Nome when rumours hit Dawson that there were flakes of gold in the sands of Nome's beaches.

PLACERMINING GRANTS   VOLUMES 1 AND 3

After gold was discovered in 1896 on Bonanza Creek, thousands of claims were staked along tributaries of the Yukon and Klondike Rivers. The Yukon Gold Commissioner's Office issued "Placermining Grants," enabling prospectors to become miners and work their claims for "placer" findings (mineral deposits containing gold, left by glaciers or rivers ). This, the first of three Placermining Grants volumes, lists almost 20,000 numbered grants and the names of their owners.

1901 CENSUS RECORD

By 1898, Dawson City's population had grown from zero to 10,000. This made it the largest city west of Winnipeg and north of San Francisco. This database was developed from 1901 Dawson City census records.

Note from Susan: At the time I transcribed these records, I copied the headers also, but still have not been able to figure out the meanings in reference to the actual information.

Age, Surname, Alias, First name, Gender, Ethnicity, Religion, Occ1, Occ2, Origin, Civstat, Yukonres, Source, Vol_ed, Page

POLKS GAZETTEER  1903 DIRECTORY

Polks Gazetteer was a social directory of sorts. Several thousand names of individuals living in the Dawson City area are listed in this 1903 database

PERSON ASSOCIATED WITH CHURCHES

Clergymen lived and worked among the Klondike stampeders during the late 1800s. Anglican, Roman Catholic, Methodist and Presbyterian congregations developed within the Yukon from 1861 to 1898. This database contains the names of Yukon clergymen and their dates of service.

SOURDOUGH STAMPEDE ASSOCIATION MEMBERS 

"Sourdough" was fermented flour and water that Klondike stampeders carried with them ready to cook. Eventually, "sourdough" became the term used to describe the miners themselves: "One who had been in the country long enough to see the ice form in the fall and break up in the spring." Little is known about the Sourdough Stampede Association, but in this database you'll find the names of some of its members.

VICTIMS OF THE MARIN DISASTER WITH SS PRINCESS SOPHIA 1918

On Oct. 19, 1918, the crew and passengers of the S.S. Princess Sophia perished in the icy waters of the Lynn Canal, 65 miles south of Skagway. Rescue ships stood by helplessly, battling mountainous waves and freezing temperatures as 379 men, women and children were lost at sea. This database lists the names of those who drowned.

BARLOW, C.W.  SEATTLE DESTINATION

NWMP RECORDS AT CHILKOOT: CHECKPOINTS LISTING PEOPLE WHO ENTERED THE YUKON

The North West Mounted Police were dispatched by the Canadian federal government to maintain law and order in the midst of Klondike chaos. The mounties set up a post along the Canadian-American border at the summit of the Chilkoot Pass. Here, they confiscated guns and maintained written records of every individual who arrived at the summit. This database contains some of those records (December 1898 to May, 1899).

NWMP RECORDS AT LAKE BENNETT:  PEOPLE WHO ENTERED THE YUKON VIA BOATS

Just as they kept track of Chilkoot crossings and boats built at Lake Bennett, the North West Mounted Police maintained records of individuals arriving at and leaving Dawson City on Yukon River steamships. These dockside archives list ships such as the S.S. Nora, S.S. Gleaver, S.S. Bailey and S.S Australian as INWARDS or OUTWARDS (bound).

1900 CENSUS:

P W BARLOW:   St Michael, Northern Supervisors District, Alaska   

   Age: 38 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1862     Birthplace: Greece     Race: White      Immigration Year: 1880

CECIL BARLOW: Circle, Northern Supervisors District, Alaska

   Age: 30     Estimated Birth Year: abt 1870      Birthplace: England     Race: White    Immigration Year: 1886

ANDREW J. BARLOW:   Skagway, Southern Supervisors District, Alaska

  Age: 57       Estimated Birth Year: abt 1843      Birthplace: Kentucky      Race: White