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Everett's in the Klondike Gold Rush
- Everett Arthur, miner
- Everett Bert, miner
- Everett Charles, cashier
- Everett Charles, miner
- Everett Earnest G, bookkeeper
- Everett Fred, Nome, miner
- Everett George N, receiving teller
- Everett Lawrence, miner
- Everett Maurice, miner
"One hundred years ago, on August 17, 1896, American George Carmack and his friends Dawson Charlie and Skookum Jim panned for gold on a small tributary of the Yukon River called Rabbit Creek.
Their discovery was to be the beginning of the greatest gold rush in history. It was by no means the first gold find in the North but it was the largest. By modern measure, the threesome stumbled on a billion dollar bounty.
Word of the treasure -- and gold rush fever -- spread quickly throughout North America.
The Klondike Gold Rush had an immediate and lasting impact on Western Canada and the United States. Seattle became a major staging point for fortune hunters headed north and the populations of Vancouver and Edmonton doubled and tripled respectively.
Soon after "Discovery Day," Dawson City sprung up at the confluence of the Klondike and Yukon Rivers. It quickly became the most populous place west of Winnipeg and north of San Francisco, with a population of 40,000. With the stream of people coming into Dawson City came the construction of hotels, theatres, and dance halls. Almost as quickly as it grew, however, Dawson City dwindled. By 1899 the gold rush was over and people left in large groups, leaving the town with a population of less than 1,000.
To mark the centennial year of the Klondike Gold Rush, Family Chronicle is publishing a list of names of people who remained in the area at the turn of the century.
The list was compiled by a Mrs. M.L. Ferguson of Los Angeles, who first visited Dawson City in 1899."
The above names are the Everett's on the list.
Additional -- and more specific -- information on individuals who were part of the Gold Rush in Yukon is available on the Internet. The site, called "Ghosts of the Gold Rush", features stories, bits of trivia, and a database that allows you to search for a specific surname. It lists all matches and provides detailed information about the person including his or her hometown, point of origin, date of arrival, and medical condition. Also at the site is "Alaska Gold Rush Trails -- Stories of the Past" with information on the Klondike as it relates to Alaska."
Information from Family Chronicle Online
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