ENDNOTES

1 | www.yesnet.yk.ca/schools/carcross/dawsoncity_pages/dawson_city_main.htm, April 4, 2002.

2 | www.onroute.com/destinations/yukon/dawson.html, April 4, 2002.

3 | Richard J. Friesen. The Chilkoot Pass and the Great Gold Rush of 1898. Hull: Parks Canada, 1981, 68.

4 | Carriers using dog-teams were known as "mushers." They used the command "mush" (likely from the French, marcher, meaning "advance") to urge the dogs on.

5 | Robert G. Woodall. The Postal History of Yukon Territory Canada. Lincoln, Massachusetts: Quarterman Publications, 1976, 32.

6 | www.collectionscanada.ca/02/02010902_e.html, April 3, 2002.

7 | Woodall, The Postal History, 44.

8 | The Pelly Post Office was opened on September 9, 1899 and became the Fort Selkirk Post Office in September 1939.

9 | National Archives of Canada (hereafter NAC), Records of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, RG 18, vol. 133, file 140, Charles Constantine to Comptroller of N.W.M.P. in Ottawa, June 22, 1896.

10 | Ibid.

11 | Woodall, The Postal History, 70.

12 | NAC, Letters of Thomas Kay, March 30, 1895-May 20, 1900, MG 20 C207, Microfilm Reel A, 1218. March 15^th, 1899.

13 | NAC, Records of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, RG 18, vol. 139, file 442, part 2, W.D. LeSueur to Fred. White, September 4^th, 1897.

14 | NAC, Records of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, RG 18, vol. 158, file 11, part 1, Yukon Mail Service Winter 1897-8, May 30^th, 1900.

15 | Woodall, The Postal History, 70.

16 | NAC, Records of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, RG 18, vol.147, file 110, W.D. LeSueur to Fred. White, June 11^th, 1898.

17 | NAC, Records of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, RG 18, vol. 158, file 11, part 2, Commdg. N.W.M.P., Yukon Territory to Comptroller N.W.M.P., Ottawa, December 29^th, 1898.

18 | NAC, Records of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, RG 18, vol. 158, file 11, part 1, Re: Yukon Mail Service, March 9^th, 1899.

19 | Woodall, The Postal History, 81.

20 | Ibid., 103.

21 | The community of Forty Mile was previously known as Fort Cudahy. The name was changed to Forty Mile on December 1, 1903.

22 | www.collectionscanada.ca/02/02010902_e.html, April 3, 2002.

23 | A. Baird. "Yukon Postal Service." Dawson Weekly News, May 28, 1953.

24 | Frank A. King. "When Post-Dogs Brought the Mail." Canadian Mining Journal, December 1959, 57.

25 | Hiram Alfred Cody. "Alaska-Yukon Overland Mail Past and Present." Pacific Monthly 20:6 (December 1908): 645. (Yukon Archives Whitehorse, PAM 1908 – 24C)

26 | Ibid.

27 | NAC, Records of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, RG 18, vol. 133, file 140, C. Constantine, Commanding Yukon Detachment to Comptroller of the N.W.M.P. in Ottawa, June 22^nd, 1896.

28 | Ibid.

29 | "Letters that Never Came." The Yukon Sun and Klondike Pioneer, Dawson, Yukon, Canada, March 2, 1901.

30 | Ibid.

31 | King, "When Post-Dogs Brought the Mail," 58.

32 | Arthur Treadwell Walden. A Dog-Puncher on the Yukon. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1928, 34-35.

33 | NAC, RG 18, vol. 133, file 140.

34 | G. Bennett. L'histoire des transports au Yukon. No. 19. Lieux historiques canadiens, Cahiers d'archéologie et d'histoire. Ottawa: Ministre des Approvisionnements et des services, 1978, 54.

35 | NAC, RG 18, vol. 133, file 140.

36 | Ibid.

37 | Walden, A Dog-Puncher, 35.

38 | NAC, RG 18, vol. 133, file 140.

39 | The Hudson's Bay Company was influential in introducing toboggans and sleds in Yukon, but not much is known on the subject. See Catharine McClellan, My Old People Say: An Ethnographiec Survey of Southern Yukon Territory, Hull: Canadian Museum of Civilization, ca. 2001, 162.

40 | Catharine McClellan. "Inland Tlingit." Subarctic Vol. 6. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1981, 474.

41 | McClellan, My Old People Say, 274.

42 | Ibid.

43 | Ibid.

44 | NAC, Records of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, RG 18, vol. 139, file 442, part 2, O. Inspector, Victoria, B.C. to F. White, Comptroller, October 19, 1897.

45 | Henry Wilkinson. "Dogs, Horses and Steamer Employed on Atlin Mail Run." Canadian Stamp News, May 29, 1978.

46 | www.postalmuseum.si.edu/gold/mailcarriers.html, February 5, 2002.

47 | NAC, RG 18, vol. 139, file 442, part 2.

48 | McClellan, My Old People Say, 162.

49 | Ibid.,164.

50 | "Tallow is the hard white, rendered fat of cattle and sheep, used mainly for making candles, soap, lubricants, etc. Tallow is produced by melting suet." In Gage Canadian Dictionary. Canada: Gage Publishing Limited, 1983, 1149.

51 | NAC, RG 18, vol. 133, file 140.

52 | Moore. "Mail Carrying in the Yukon." Toronto Globe, April 3, 1897.

53 | King, "When Post-Dogs Brought the Mail," 58.

54 | Gage Canadian Dictionary, 835.

55 | NAC, Records of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, RG 18, vol. 139, file 442, part 2, Commissioner N.W.M.P., Regina to Hon. Clifford Sifton, September 27^th, 1897.

56 | Ibid., L.W. Herchmer to Comptroller in Ottawa, September 5^th, 1897.

57 | Remark of the officer in charge of Yukon Territory. NAC, Records of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, RG 18, vol. 158, file 11, part 2, Commdg. N.W.M.P., Yukon Territory to Comptroller N.W.M.P., Ottawa, December 29^th, 1898.

58 | Cody, "Alaska-Yukon Overland Mail," 645.

59 | Woodall, The Postal History, 51.

60 | Ibid., 71.

61 | Ibid.

62 | Faith Fenton. "Mail Carrying on the Yukon." Globe and Mail, Toronto, February 18, 1899.

63 | Cody, "Alaska-Yukon Overland Mail," 642-44.

64 | Ibid.

65 | "Letters that Never Came."

66 | Wilkinson, "Dogs, Horses and Steamer."

67 | NAC, MG 30 C207, Microfilm Reel A 1218.

68 | Bennett, L'histoire des transports, 51.

69 | NAC, Records of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, RG 18, vol. 158, file 11, "Yukon Mail Matters," Vancouver World, October 29^th, 1898.

70 | Ibid., sent to R.M. Coulter, Deputy Postmaster General, October 7^th, 1898.

71 | Cody, "Alaska-Yukon Overland Mail," 648.

72 | Poem "The Law of the Yukon," www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/781.html

73 | NAC, Records of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, RG 18, vol. 133, file 140, Charles Constantine to Comptroller of N.W.M.P. in Ottawa, June 22, 1896.

74 | NAC, Records of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, RG 18, vol. 147, file 110, Sergeant James Morrow Walsh to Superintendent Samuel Benfield Steele, April 23, 1898.

75 | Ibid.