Sources used in the Yukon Residents Database
March 2006
The Yukon Residents Database includes permanent and temporary Yukon residents who lived or worked in the Yukon from 1918 to 1950. The names were compiled from a number of archival resources (Anglican Church band lists, government records, and two manuscript collections) plus several library sources (regimental histories, a 1935 town directory, and two telephone directories). The database currently includes only Yukon residents living in the central and southern Yukon. Residents living in the northern Yukon (such as Old Crow, Rampart House, etc.) have not yet been entered.
Archival Sources
Corporate Records
Anglican Church of Canada, Diocese of Yukon #88/128, COR 250, f. 2
Includes the census as recorded by the Anglican Church for the communities of Frances Lake, Ross River, Big Lake, Little Salmon, and Carmacks, 1924-1930
Anglican Church of Canada, Diocese of Yukon #88/128, COR 256, f. 9
Includes a list of parishioners of the Anglican Church for the years 1920-1922.
Anglican Church of Canada, Diocese of Yukon, #88/128, COR 262, f. 1
Indian Band Membership lists, 1932-1952
Government Records
Commissioner's Office, Personnel Appointments, ca. 1948,
GOV 2078, f. 1
Lists the names of civil servants and teachers that worked in Dawson, Mayo, Whitehorse, Carcross, Carmacks, Destruction Bay, Teslini and Thistle Creek.
Dawson City Municipal Records 1950, GOV 1360, f. 15
List of voters, City of Dawson, first municipal election, 1950
Dominion List of Voters for Electoral District of Yukon, 1918, GOV 1659A, f. 30811
Whitehorse Municipal Records, #78/27, 1947, GOV 970, f. 15
Lists the names of
Whitehorse residents and their occupations in during 1947.
Manuscripts
Faulkner, Victoria, 83/50, f. 54C MSS 141
Rural preliminary list of electors: Yukon 1938 which includes 1,977 electors, their occupations and their places of residence. The rural polling divisions included are: Dawson, Glacier Creek, Lower Bonanza, Upper Bonanza, Quartz Creek, Stewart, Thistle Creek, Bear Creek, Klondike, Gold Bottom, Upper Dominion, Lower Dominion, Sulphur, Mayo Landing, Huffman, Keno City, Galena Hill, Selkirk, Carmacks, Mt. Free Gold, Whitehorse and Carcross
Greenslade, Ronald L., #85/50, f. 2, MSS 170
Population of town of Whitehorse, YT, Oct. 24, 1933. Broken down by Adults (242), Children Attending School (53) and Children and Infants Not of School Age (44), the list provides individual's surname and first name or initial.
Library Sources
Books & Pamphlets
Regimental Histories
Alaskan
Highway an Engineering Epic, by F. Rainey.
In: National Geographic
Magazine, vol. 83, no. 2 (February 1943): 143-168.
Location: PAM 1943-0012C
A magazine article about the planning, design and construction of the Alcan Highway
mentions ten individuals involved by name.
Alcan-America's Glory Road:
Part III: Construction Tactics, by Harold W. Richardson. In: Engineering
News-Record (14 January 1943): 131-138.
Location: Pam 1943-0014
A magazine
article written about the design and construction of the Alcan Highway. At the
end of the article is a list of individuals from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
Northwest Service Command, Public Roads Administration and general contractors.
Alcan
Trail Blazers. [Pittsburgh, Penn: 648th Memorial Fund, 1992]Location: 940.541273
Alca
"A" Company, 648th Engineer Topographic Battalion consisted
of 5 officers and 156 enlisted men who had the responsibility of locating, surveying
and mapping the Alaska Highway along the southern sector between Fort St. John,
B.C. and Lower Post on the Liard River on the British Columbia-Yukon border in
October-November 1942. During November-December 1942 the Company was responsible
for surveying a winter trail from Fort Nelson, B.C. to Fort Simpson, NWT.
Maintenance
and construction on the Alaska Highway, 1946-1964. 2nd ed. [S.l.: Corps of
Royal Canadian Engineers, 1964].
Location: 358.22 CAF
This history of the
Royal Canadian Engineers' involvement with the construction and maintenance of
the Alcan Highway highlights 1946 to 1964. The annexes list over 200 individuals
involved including commanders, chief engineers, area superintendents, maintenance
camp foremen, Royal Canadian Engineer officers and long service civilian employees.
History
of 17 Works COY RCE, April 1946-31 March 1964.
[S.l.: s.n.], 1964.
Location:
PAM 1964-0049
An account of the 17 Works COY Royal Canadian Engineers, who
provided and maintained accommodation for the headquarters, the maintenance teams
on the road and the supporting service units of the Northwest Highway System over
an eighteen year period. Chapters 2 and 5 list seventy military personnel, commanding
officers and civilian employees associated with 17 Works COY during this time
period.
History of the Royal Canadian Pay Corps on the Northwest Highway
System, 1946-1964, by B. W. E. Krause.
Location: PAM 1964-0048
Includes
a list of twelve people who assisted with the compiling of a history on the Royal
Canadian Army Pay Corps on the Northwest Highway System. It also includes the
years that the contributors served with the system.
Lower Post or freeze:
340th Engineer Regiment on the Alaska Military Highway, 1942-1947.
Location:
940.540 3 USACE 1944
The 340th Regiment consisted of 45 officers and 1241 enlisted
men who were responsible for constructing the Lower Post road in 1942. In 1943
the Regiment constructed bridges at Liard River, Nisutlin bay and Tagish Crossing
and building rest camps at Rancheria River, Swift River, Morely River, and Brook's
Brook. The lat 9 pages of include personnel names.
Me and Company "C",
by Robert P. Boyd. [United States]: R. P. Boyd, 1992.
Location: 358.22 Boyd
Includes
names of some the African American military personnel who served in the 93rd Engineers
during the Alaska Highway construction time.
Northern Signal, v. 1,
no. 25, 1945
Location: PAM 1945-0048
The 843rd Signal Service Battalion
operated and maintained the Alaska Highway Telephone System, the first land-line
communications to Alaska. With World War II at an end, many of its members expressed
a desire to have a list of names and hometown addresses of past and present personnel.
Northern Signal, the Battalion's newsletter, fulfilled this request in a special
issue devoted to its members contact information.
Northwest Highway
System: the Royal Canadian Engineer Years, 1946-1964. [S.l: H.E.R. Colyer],
1992.
Location: 358.22 Coly
On April 1, 1946 the Canadian Army assumed responsibility
for the portions of the Alaska Highway that lay with Canadian boundaries. This
section of the Highway was renamed the "Northwest Highway System" and
the responsibility for maintenance was given to the Royal Canadian Engineers for
the next twenty years. Appendixes "G" to "H" lists military
personnel and civilians that assisted with the maintenance of the highway from
1946 to 1964.
Town Directories & Telephone Books
British
Columbia and Yukon Directory, 1935, p. 812-816Location: Microfilm MF #90,
r. 1
Lists the names of residents of Dawson, Whitehorse, Bear Creek, Bonanza,
Big Salmon, Carcross, Granville, Keno Hill, Kluane, Glacier Creek, Huffman, Mayo,
etc. for the year 1935.
Whitehorse Telephone Directory, January 1,
1946.
[Whitehorse: NorthwesTel], 1946
Location: PAM 1946-0043
Thirty-three
residents are listed in the January 1, 1946 edition of this Whitehorse telephone
directory.
Whitehorse Telephone Directory, January 1, 1948. [Whitehorse:
NorthwesTel], 1948
Location: PAM 1948-0058
Sixty-two residents are listed
in the January 1, 1948 edition of this Whitehorse telephone directory.