Fortymile, c1983 Routes to the Klondike; Transportation Photograph of the SS Canadian

Photograph of the SS Canadian pushing barge on river

candid portrait of H

Back row second left Mrs

Martin (Klondyke)

horses and heavily loaded sleds at the summit of White Pass

Fortymile, c1983 Routes to the Klondike; Transportation Photograph of the SS CanadianA photo of a burned down building at the Fortymile townsite. In the foreground, a tourist information sign reads: "Fortymile Townsite, named for its location 40 miles downstream from Fort Reliance, where Harper, Mayo and McQuesten had their Trading Post. Fortymile was founded in 1887 when a group of prospectors came this way to investigate a rumoured gold strike. The community straggled along until 1896 when nearly everybody left for the Gold Fields."