- yuk yuk-905
- Fonds
- 1899-[ca. 1918], 1979, 1980
The fonds consists of original photographs and postcards, ca.1900-1918, depicting sternwheelers, White Pass and Yukon Route (WP&YR) trains, the residential school [Chooutla] at Carcross, Miles Canyon and views of Whitehorse including water delivery scenes. The textual records include a copy of the diary Martha Grace Watson wrote on her journey from Dyea, Alaska to Atlin, B.C. with her husband Matthew and their four children, March 10, 1899 - April 17th, 1899; a letter from Bill Watson to Miriam McTiernan of the Yukon Archives; and a letter from Frances Watson (Mrs. Bill Watson) to Miriam McTiernan which describes the first planes to come north in 1920 and land in Whitehorse.
Watson family