Ward, Joe (Conductor)

Joe Ward was born in England and trained as a gardener. He immigrated to the United States in the early 1900s, came north to Whitehorse in 1909, built a rowboat, paddled to Dawson and found work in a greenhouse. A year later he travled down the Yukon River to Fort Yukon, worked at mines on Birch Creek and at Circle City, and travled up the Porcupine River to a site above Shuman House, where he built a cabin and lived for the next 40 years, operating an extensive trapline.

From the description of Diaries 1912-1960. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 42064574