Canadian Historic Sites: Occasional Papers in Archaeology and History No. 21

The Dawson Daily News:
Journalism in the Klondike

by Edward F. Bush

Endnotes

The Klondike, 1886-99

1 Pierre Berton, Klondike: The Life and Death of the Last Great Geld Rush (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1958), pp. 15-16.

2 Yukon Midnight Sun, 20 June 1898, p. 9.

3 Pierre Berton, op. cit., p. 292.

4 Yukon Midnight Sun, 11 June 1898.

5 Ibid., p. 4.

6 Ibid., 18 July 1898, p. 3.

7 Daily Klondike Nugget, 12 March 1900, p. 3.

8 Klondike Nugget, 16 June 1898, p. 2.

9 Ibid.

10 Yukon Midnight Sun, 20 June 1898, p. 4.

11 Pierre Berton, op. cit., p. 303.

12 Yukon Midnight Sun, 27 June 1898, p. 7.

13 Klondike Nugget, 24 Aug. 1898, p. 1

14 Ibid., 24 Sept. 1898, p. 4.

15 Ibid., 5 July 1898, p. 2.

16 Ibid., 27 July 1898, p. 1.

17 Yukon Midnight Sun, 22 Aug. 1898, p. 2.

18 Yukon Midnight Sun, 27 Dec. 1898, p. 2.

19 Canada. Public Archives (hereafter cited as PAC), RG15, E1(a), Vol. 4, file 1023, Ogilvie to Sifton, Dawson, 28 Feb. 1899.

20 Ibid., Ogilvie to Sifton, 26 April 1899, transmitting evidence submitted to him as a royal commissioner, under letters patent 7 Oct. 1898.

21 Klondike Miner and Yukon Advertiser, 30 Dec. 1898, p. 2.

22 Klondike Nugget, 30 Nov. 1898.

23 Pierre Berton, op. cit., p.410.

24 Klondike Miner and Yukon Advertiser, 19 May 1899, p. 2.

25 Klondike Nugget, 29 March 1898.

26 Ibid., 26 July 1899, editorial.

27 Ibid., 1 July 1899, editorial.

28 Dawson Daily News, 24 May 1913, Roediger obituary.

29 Ibid., 5 Aug. 1899, editorial.

30 Yukon Sun, 15 Aug. 1899, p. 2.

31 Ibid., 8 Aug. 1899, p. 3.

32 Dawson Daily News, 31 Jan. 1905, editorial.

33 Klondike Nugget, 12 April 1899, p. 4.

34 Dawson Daily News, 25 Aug. 1899.

35 W.H. Kesterton, A History of Journalism in Canada (Toronto; McClelland and Stewart, 1967), p. 52.

36 Dawson Daily News, 10 Nov. 1899, editorial.

37 Ibid., 19 Dec. 1899, quoting Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

38 Klondike Nugget, 5 Aug. 1899, editorial.

39 Ibid., 25 Oct. 1899, editorial.

40 David B. Morrison, The Politics of the Yukon Territory, 1898-1909 (Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1967), p. 28.

41 Dawson Daily News, 14 Dec. 1899.

42 PAC, RG15, E1(a), Vol. 6, file 1501, An Ordinance Respecting Newspapers.

43 Dawson Daily News, 11 Dec. 1899, editorial.

44 Yukon Sun & Klondike Pioneer, 30 Dec. 1899.

45 Dawson Daily News, 1 Feb. 1900, p. 4.

Political Agitation and Journalistic Ferment, 1900-09

1 Dawson Daily News, 20 Jan. 1900, editorial.

2 Ibid., 22 Jan. 1900, p. 1.

3 Daily Klondike Nugget, 2 Oct. 1900, p. 1.

4 Ibid., 27 Dec. 1899, p. 1.

5 Yukon Sun & Klondike Pioneer, 9 Jan. 1900, p. 2.

6 Dawson Daily News, 8 Jan. 1900, editorial.

7 Yukon Sun & Klondike Pioneer, 6 Feb. 1900, p. 2.

8 Dawson Daily News, 23 Feb. 1900, p. 1.

9 PAC, MG30, I11, Vol. 21, file Yukon Newspapers No. 3, deponent of information of J.A. Clarke.

10 Yukon Sun & Klondike Pioneer, 4 July 1900, p. 2.

11 PAC, MG27, D15, Vol. 91, p. 71540, Woodside to Sifton, 26 Nov. 1900.

12 PAC, MG30, I11, Vol. 17, file Correspondence re. Ministers, MPs, Woodside to Scott, 5 Feb. 1901.

13 Yukon Sun & Klondike Pioneer, 9 Feb. 1901, p. 2.

14 Ibid., 30 March 1901, p. 4.

15 David R. Morrison, op. cit., pp. 36-7.

16 Daily Klondike Nugget, 16 Oct. 1900, p. 1.

17 Ibid., 27 Sept. 1900, p. 2.

18 PAC, RG15, E1(a), Vol. 7, file 2286, territorial secretary to secretary, Interior department, 26 Apr11 1901.

19 Daily Klondike Nugget, 13 March 1901, p. 1.

20 Semi-Weekly Nugget, 17 March 1901, p. 6.

21 Daily Klondike Nugget, 28 Aug. 1901, p. 2.

22 Ibid., 23 Sept. 1901, pp. 1, 4.

23 Ibid., 20 & 24 July 1901, p. 2, both issues.

24 Semi-Weekly Nugget, 24 July 1901, p. 4.

25 Ibid., 27 July 1901.

26 Ibid., 14 Dec. 1901, p. 4.

27 PAC, MG30, I11, Vol. 17, file Sir Wilfrid Laurier, 1899-1904, Woodside to Laurier, 26 July 1904.

28 Semi-Weekly Nugget, 28 Dec. 1901, p. 2.

29 Canada: Sessional Papers, 1902, No. 25, Report of the Commissioner, Yukon Territory, 10 Oct. 1901, pp. 3-5.

30 Klondike Gold Production

Dawson Daily News, 9 June 1905, editorial.

31 Ibid., 19 April 1902, p. 5.

32 Ibid., 5 Sept. 1902, editorial.

33 Daily Klondike Nugget, 5 July 1902, p. 2.

34 Dawson Daily News, 2 Sept. 1902, editorial.

35 PAC, MG30, I11, Vol. 17, file Sir Sam Steele, Woodside to Steele, 14 Sept. 1904.

36 Ibid., Vol. 17, file Ministers & MPs, Woodside to J.H. Ross, 10 Nov. 1902.

37 Yukon Sun, 3 Dec. 1902, p. 2.

38 Dawson Daily News, 19 Apr11 1902, editorial.

39 Daily Klondike Nugget, 16 Oct. 1901, p. 1.

40 Ibid., 19 Aug. 1902, p. 2.

41 Dawson Daily News, 23 Aug. 1902, editorial.

42 Yukon Sun, 15 Nov. 1902, p. 3.

43 Dawson Daily News, 3 Dec. 1902, editorial.

44 The Free Lance (Dawson), 22 Jan. 1903.

45 Ibid., p. 2.

46 Dawson Daily News, 25 June 1903, editorial.

47 Yukon Sun, 24 June 1903, p. 2.

48 Dawson Daily News, 22 July 1903, editorial.

49 Ibid., 14 Aug. 1903, p. 8.

50 Ibid., 2 Sept. 1903, p. 5.

51 Ibid., 16 Nov. 1903, editorial.

52 Ibid.

53 Ibid., 1 Feb. 1900, editorial.

54 Ibid., 7 Jan. 1904, editorial.

55 PAC, MG30, I11, file Sir Sam Steele, Woodside to Steele, 1 Sept. 1910.

56 Dawson Daily News, 15 July 1903, editorial.

57 Yukon Sun, 15 July 1903, p. 2.

58 Ibid., 20 Nov. 1903, p. 1.

59 Ibid., 8 Dec. 1903, p. 2.

60 Yukon World, 29 Feb. 1904, p. 2.

61 Ibid., 3 March 1904, p. 2.

62 Dawson Daily News, 29 Feb. 1904.

63 PAC, RG15, E1(a), Vol. 7, file 2286, Public Notices, Dawson, 31 March 1904.

64 Yukon Sun, 2 April 1904, editorial.

65 Dawson Daily News, 15 June 1904, editorial.

66 PAC, MG30, I11, Vol. 17, file Sir Sam Steele, Woodside to Steele, 14 Sept. 1904.

67 Dawson Daily News, 5 Oct. 1904, editorial.

68 David R. Morrison, op. cit., p. 66.

69 Dawson Daily News, 13 July 1904, editorial.

70 PAC, MG26, G, Vol. 328, pp. 88066-7, Congdon to Laurier, 15 July 1904.

71 Dawson Daily News, 29 July 1904, editorial.

72 Ibid., 24 Oct. 1904, editorial

73 Yukon World, 18 Dec 1904, p. 2

74 Dawson Daily News, 17 Jan. 1905, p. 1.

75 Ibid., 8 July 1905, p. 1.

76 Yukon World, 13 Aug. 1905, p. 2.

77 Dawson Daily News, 20 July 1905, editorial.

78 Yukon World, 19 June 1906, p. 2.

79 PAC, MG30, I11, Vol. 17, A. Ross Cuthbert to Woodside, 28 March 1906, Woodside to Cuthbert, 27 Aug. 1906.

80 PAC, MG26, G, Vol. 417, p. 111399, Laurier to McInnes, 31 May 1906.

81 Ibid., pp. 111395-7, McInnes to Laurier, 19 June 1906.

82 Yukon World, 28 June 1906, p. 2.

83 Dawson Daily News, 26 Sept. 1906, editorial.

84 David R. Morrison, op. cit.

85 Yukon World, 30 Nov. 1907, p. 2.

86 Dawson Daily News, 20 July 1908, p. 2.

87 Ibid., 20 Jan. 1908, p. 4.

88 Ibid., 31 Oct. 1908, editorial. Roediger died in May 1913 in Tacoma, where he had started his journalistic career nearly 30 years before. Dawson Daily News, 24 May 1913, p. 1.

89 Yukon World, 19 Dec. 1908, p. 2.

90 Ibid., 9 Jan. 1909.

91 T.A. Rickard, Through the Yukon and Alaska (San Francisco; Mining and Scientific Press, 1909), p. 184.

92 Yukon World, 10 April 1909, p. 2.

Ghost Town, 1810-54

1 Dawson Daily News, 1 Jan. 1909.

2 Ibid., 20 Oct. 1910, editorial.

3 Ibid., 24 Oct. 1911, p. 2.

4 Ibid., 23 March 1918.

5 Ibid., 10 May 1918, p. 2.

6 Ibid., 7 May 1918, p. 2.

7 Ibid., 20 Feb. 1920, p. 4.

8 Dawson News, 15 Nov. 1924.

9 PAC, RG15, E1(a), Vol. 6, file 1501, affidavit or deposition, 19 March 1924.

10 Dawson News, 13 Aug. 1925, pp. 1, 4.

11 Klondike Gold Production

Canada, Bureau of Statistics, Chronological Record of Canadian Mining Events from 1604-1947, and Historical Tables of the Mineral Production of Canada (Ottawa: King's Printer, 1948).

12 Dawson News, 18 June 1940, p. 1.

13 Ibid., 13 May 1944, p. 1.

14 Dawson Weekly News, 7 April 1949, editorial.

15 Ibid., 21 Sept. 1950, p. 1.

16 Ibid., 19 Oct. 1950, editorial.

17 Ibid., 25 March 1954, editorial.