The fonds consists of manuscripts and correspondence written by MacBride and a microfilm copy of his 250+ page scrapbook of newspaper clippings, photographs, correspondence and articles of Yukon history, covering the years 1900-1955. The scrapbook includes an extensive pictorial history of the Yukon sternwheelers, information on the White Pass and Yukon Route (WP&YR), clippings about the Yukon Historical Society, the MacBride Museum, and William D. MacBride, articles on the Taku Tram, the White Pass Stage Line, pioneer aviation, the construction of the Alaska Highway, Soapy Smith, dog teams and many pictures of Whitehorse, Dawson City and mining. Also included in the scrapbook are extracts from the White Pass and Yukon Route River Division Daily Logs, 1903-1952; a collection of poetry written about the Yukon; and a 1933 Whitehorse census which includes a list of voters, children attending school, and infants not yet of school age. His personal correspondence is with Mr. C.J. Vitquain, a retired purser of the sternwheeler "The Yukoner", in which he writes about the sternwheeler, and attaches an original 1900 receipt for ship wages he was paid by the Canadian Development Company, and mentions the 1951 International Yukoners Reunion in San Francisco. The manuscript "Yukon Stage Line", written in 1945, and revised in 1951, is a brief history of official land and water routes between Whitehorse and Dawson City, dealing mainly with White Pass and Yukon Route's horse-drawn "Royal Mail Service", including a list of rest posts and their distance from Whitehorse. Two portraits are included titled: "Mrs. Simmons Oldest Known Indian" and "Dick MaGami". An unprocessed accession 92/72 consists of a collection of books, brochures, correspondence, newspaper and magazine articles photographs collected or written by William MacBride.
MacBride, William, ca. 1888-1973