Collection yuk-106 - Clayton Betts collection

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Clayton Betts collection

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CA yuk yuk-106

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37 photographs : b&w;.01 m of textual records

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Clayton Betts was born in Whitehorse in July 1907. His father worked for Customs. Clayton worked delivering the Dawson Daily News until the late 1920s when he moved to Vancouver and worked with the Vancouver Harbour Commission. He married Evelyn in Vancouver and they raised a daughter, Christine. Betts retired in 1972. They later lived in Burnaby, B.C. Betts was very involved with the Vancouver Yukoners' Association, acting as Treasurer in 1964, Vice-President in 1973-1974, and later President. Clayton Betts died March 18, 1994.

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The collection consists of photographs collected by Clayton Betts, a photocopy of an article written by Betts, and a photocopy of another article. Betts' article was written for the Vancouver Yukoners' Association Bulletin of December, 1979 and is about Solomon Albert, a trapper and prospector in the White River area. The photographs were taken in the Dawson City area 1898-1920 and show Harry Calder, Solomon Albert, Roald Amundsen, George and Martha Black, A.J. Goddard, Yukon Field Force, the first plane in the Yukon, 1st Alaska Air Expedition of the U.S. Army Air Force, Dawson Rifle Company and Sargeant Dempster's search party for the Lost Patrol. The other article is "Short History of Yukon Field Force and Dawson Rifle Company" by Lieutenant Colonel H.D. Hulme. It was published in the "Alaska Weekly" of August 14, 1936.

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The "Inventory to the Clayton Betts Collection of Photographs" identifies each individual photograph.

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