The Steamer Tutshi was the queen of the British Yukon Navigation Company's fleet when she was launched at Carcross June 12, 1917. The B.Y.N. Co. built its own hotel in Atlin in 1916 to handle the growing tourist trade. The Tutshi and a propeller-driven boat, the Tarahne, were also commissioned for the southern lakes' tourist trade. But, by the time they were completed, World War I had slowed excursion traffic to a trickle and it was not until 1919 that the boats and the Atlin Inn started paying for themselves. Once the tourism business was on the rise, the B.Y.N. Co. found it could not meet the demand from excursionists. Between 1920 and 1926 the Tutshi underwent three extensions on its uppermost (Texas) deck, expanding passenger capacity from 80 to 120 first class berths. In 1928, the Tarahne was also expanded. The boat was cut in half, the two ends pulled apart and 40 feet (12m) added to the middle. The Tutshi was one of the first B.Y.N. Co. sternwheelers to burn oil, a modification made in 1925 largely for the comfort of the tourists. Most riverboats burned wood but loading cordwood was considered a noisy inconvenience for the Tutshi excursionists sleeping on board. The Tutshi served as both freight carrier and an excursion boat through the 1930s and 40s. It was beached at Carcross in the summer of 1955 and left untended until the Yukon Government bought it in 1971. The Tutshi was destroyed by fire in July of 1990.

Simon Stanley Mason-Wood, known as Sam Wood, arrived in the Yukon in the late 1920s and started managing the Whitehorse Inn Hotel. He then worked for T.C. Richards driving a cat, hauling mail, freight and passengers. It was on a trip to Mayo that he met Rose Turgeon. They were married in Mayo and had three children: Eileen, Margaret, and Simon. Sam worked for the Yukon Government in Mayo as the mining recorder, liquor vendor, territorial agent, forestry, justice of the peace and coroner. After about 10 years he left the government to start a trucking and wood business. Sam was an avid gardener, outdoorsman and fly fisherman. Sam Wood died in 1950. After his death Rose married Bill Zenuik and she died in 1980.

Arthur Ernest (Sandy) Yeulet arrived in the Yukon in 1926 as a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). He married Virginia Harbottle, daughter of Francis Edmond and Lillian Harbottle. Sandy and Virginia had three children Arthur (b. 1927), Colin and Virginia. The family lived in Whitehorse until 1936, when they moved to Dawson City, then returned to live in Whitehorse in 1942.

Percy F. Scharschmidt was born in Kent, England in 1868 and died in Vancouver in 1932. He obtained a medical degree from Toronto University in 1887 and then travelled west, settling in Nanaimo (on Vancouver Island) where he practiced medicine until 1892. That year he gave up medical work and engaged in mining and other activities in various parts of the province, venturing up to the Yukon in 1897. In 1899 he established the "Bennett Sun" at Bennett and later journeyed to Whitehorse to start the "Northern Star", the forerunner of the "Whitehorse Star". He sold the newspaper in 1900 and became involved with mining and transportation in the North. For many years he was employed by the White Pass & Yukon Route (WP&YR) and retired in 1911 as superintendent of their River Division. Upon returning from military service overseas, where he obtained the rank of major, he settled in Vancouver where he engaged in general brokerage work. He died in Vancouver in 1932.

The Selkirk First Nation, formerly the Selkirk Indian Band, originally inhabited the area around Fort Selkirk at the confluence of the Yukon and Pelly rivers. The settlement of Fort Selkirk became the center of the former band's activities, hence their name. However, changes that began in the late 1940s precipitated the movement of the band. At that time the declining fur industry and the resulting closure of the Fort Selkirk Hudson's Bay post made living around the Fort less economically viable. In the 1950s, the completion of the Klondike Highway, accompanied with the cessation of sternwheeler traffic on the Yukon River, inexorably pulled the people away from the river toward the highway. The members of the Selkirk First Nation migrated up the Pelly River to Pelly Crossing. Not all the Selkirk people moved to the same place; some spread out to other Yukon communities. However, the social and political center of the Selkirk First Nation is now in Pelly Crossing. The Selkirk First Nation signed their Self Government Agreement at Minto, on July 21, 1997.

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