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Ted Thornton-Trump fonds
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.01 m of textual records;18 photographs : b&w prints 20x25 cm
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Ted Thornton-Trump came to Dawson City as a young man in 1939, hoping to find work for the summer season with Yukon Consolidated Gold Company. He left Vancouver on March 31, 1939, travelling by boat to Skagway, Alaska and then on by plane to Dawson City. Ted arrived in Dawson on April 4th, and on May 12th was hired by YCGC to work at their machine shop in Bear Creek. After a lay off period, Ted then worked in the Company's garage at Bear Creek. He boarded the sternwheeler Klondike to return to Vancouver on September 6, 1939. Ted Thornton-Trump returned to work for YCGC for the summer season of 1940. He continues [as of 1986] to make visits to the Dawson area to oversee current mining interests. Mr. Thornton-Trump now resides in Florida, and has had much success as an inventor/designer, and businessman.
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The fonds consists of a copy of a typed transcript of a diary kept by Ted Thornton-Trump from March 31, 1939 to September 7, 1939, and entitled "My First Trip to the Yukon". In his diary, Mr. Thornton-Trump describes his trip to Dawson City, his experiences as an employee of the Yukon Consolidated Gold Company (YCGC), the daily activities he took part in, and his return trip home to Vancouver. The 'plans' that are mentioned in the diary (also referred to as the "Infernal Machine") was an invention of Ted's designed to test electrical equipment used by YCGC. A sense of Mr. Thornton-Trump's philosophy of life is imparted in the diary. The fonds also includes photographs of 18 pages of Ted Thornton-Trump's 1939-1940 Yukon photograph album, showing a total of 76 photographs (with inscriptions). Included are views of the following: Bear Creek, YCGC dredges, dredge equipment, dredge construction and repairs, the North Fork Power Project Ditch, Klondike Creeks, the Eraser and Rusk's Roadhouse at Paris, Yukon, airplanes, the First Nation village of Moosehide and Lake Bennett.
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