DICK NORTH

Dick North has been a talented interpreter of northern history and he started out in 1936 when he was a reporter for the Alaska Empire in Juneau. He was commissioned by the White Pass & Yukon Route to help locate Jack London’s cabin and as a result of that successful search with Joe and Victor Henry the cabin was moved from Henderson Creek. 

Half of the cabin went to Seattle and the other half remained in Dawson to commemorate Jack London’s life in the north. The cabin became the Jack London Interpretive Centre under the aegis of the Klondike Visitor’s Association and Dick was the knowledgeable interpreter in residence.

London’s cabin was a welcome addition to Dawson’s “Writer’s Block” which includes the home of a young Pierre Burton and Robert Service’s cabin. Dick has written four books about Yukon history: The Mad Trapper of Rat River (1972), The Lost Patrol (1978), Trackdown: The Search for the Mad Trapper (1989) and Arctic Exodus: The Last Great Trail Drive (1991). Dick wone the Commissioner’s Public Volunteer Service Award in 2003 and “Dick North Street” joined the other writers honoured by Dawson in 2004.