Frank Coffee

“ Terrific storms play havoc with the lines, but communication must be kept open, entailing great exertion and risk. With the characteristic hospitality of the frontier, they will share their fire and food with the lost traveler. At times, the fierce cold is beyond their endurance and one may succumb, as the pathetic case of one McKenzie, near Hazelton, British Columbia, in 1909. One morning members of a passing pack train found McKenzie frozen to death in his cabin. ”

“ ANOTHER body of self-sacrificing and efficient men are the telegraphers and their linesmen of the Canadian North, on a line known as the Yukon Telegraph Trail. They exist in cabins, forty miles apart. ”