Adam Mackay had moved from Ontario to Nebraska, then to Oregon before joining the Klondike Stampede in 1898. He was at Sheep Camp when the avalanche occurred on the trail of Chilkoot Pass. He immediately wrote home to his wife assuring her that he was safe and had survived. In the Klondike he obtained a "lay" on a claim (acquiring mining rights to a portion of the claim) and the next year sent for his wife and daughter. He later gave up mining and worked for a sawmill and still later established a dairy farm. Makay's daughter, Lucille Hooker, who rode the White Pass Railroad to Lake Bennett in 1899 with her mother, died in Vancouver in 1999 at the age of 107.
From "A Walking Tour of Dawson City Cemeteries", a pamphlet produced by Dawson City Museum and Historical Society.
From "A Walking Tour of Dawson City Cemeteries", a pamphlet produced by Dawson City Museum and Historical Society.
Adam Mackay had moved from Ontario to Nebraska, then to Oregon before joining the Klondike Stampede in 1898. He was at Sheep Camp when the avalanche occurred on the trail of Chilkoot Pass. He immediately wrote home to his wife assuring her that he was safe and had survived. In the Klondike he obtained a "lay" on a claim (acquiring mining rights to a portion of the claim) and the next year sent for his wife and daughter. He later gave up mining and worked for a sawmill and still later established a dairy farm. Makay's daughter, Lucille Hooker, who rode the White Pass Railroad to Lake Bennett in 1899 with her mother, died in Vancouver in 1999 at the age of 107.
From "A Walking Tour of Dawson City Cemeteries", a pamphlet produced by Dawson City Museum and Historical Society.
From "A Walking Tour of Dawson City Cemeteries", a pamphlet produced by Dawson City Museum and Historical Society.
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