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Canadian Historic Sites: Occasional Papers in Archaeology and History No. 26
Grubstake to Grocery Store: Supplying the Klondike, 1897-1907
by Margaret Archibald
Appendix G. Categories of Merchants in Dawson, 1901-06.
The information given in this appendix is drawn from Alaska-Yukon
business directories for these years. Because the only available copy of
the 1903 directory is an extract, the figures in certain categories are
incomplete; these figures are marked by double asterisks. A single
asterisk denotes an overlap; that is, the fact that some merchants are
entered in both wholesale and retail categories, or that they sold both
confectionery and tobacco.
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| Category | 1901 | 1902 | 1903 | 1905-06 |
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| Grocers and provisions dealers | 30 |
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| Wholesale |
| 13* | 5* | 3 |
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| Retail |
| 30* | 39* | 16 |
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| General merchants | 28 |
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| Wholesale |
| 21 | 13 | 7 |
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| Retail |
| 7 | 4 | 4 |
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| Commission merchants | 8 | 7 | 4 | 4 |
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| Merchants and traders, unspecified | 135 | 41 |
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| Secondhand merchants, auctioneers |
| 2 | 6** | 5 |
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| Meat merchants | 16 |
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| Markets |
| 16 | 13 | 7 |
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| Butchers |
| 17 | 13 |
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| Hardware dealers | 11 | 9 | 13 | 9 |
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| Dry goods (men's and women's clothing, general dry goods) | 28 | 16 | 21** | 19 |
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| Fruit and confectionery | 6* | 13* | 8* | 7 |
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| Cigars and tobacco | 15* | 25* | 21 * | 16 |
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| Drug stores | 8 | 6 | 10 | 7 |
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| Saloons | 23 | 18 | ** | 16 |
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| Restaurants | 33 | 33 | ** | 22 |
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