(Conclusion)
In last week’s BC Chronicles, banker David Doig and his Mountie escort successfully delivered more than $1 million in cash to Dawson City to open the most northerly branch of the Bank of British North America.
This was at the height of the fabled Klondike gold rush.
It had been a long haul over the Chilkoot Pass then by boat down the Yukon River before a temporary office could be opened for business.
But David Doig wasn’t your usual austere banker, and his reputation as a “party hearty” kind of guy has long outlived him. The conclusion to his ‘Overland to the Yukon” memoir this week.
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PHOTO: The Bank of British North America, Dawson City, in 1899. —BC Archives
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