The First Post Office in Dease Lake

I was a city boy from Berlin, Germany, when I came to Canada in 1974 to fulfill my dream of visiting the Yukon. There I met my wife, Margaret Pearce, who was also a city girl from Vancouver, and we married the following year. We both found work at a mine in Clinton Creek in the Yukon, and later moved to another mine in Cassiar, BC.

Because we both loved the north, after we left our jobs at Cassiar, we decided to settle in the remote hamlet of Dease Lake. Supposedly this was on the verge of a boom, as it was the proposed endpoint of the British

Columbia Railway northern extension. The rail line was never built, but we didn’t know at the time that the plans would be cancelled.

We bought an empty lot on Boulder Avenue and decided to build a log house, although neither of us had ever cut