This is the diary kept by my great-uncle Jack Gill, who went to the Yukon in the gold rush of 1898. He gave it to my father, Henry G. Boulton, who gave it to me. As you will see, life in the Klondike was not as easy 100 years ago as it is today.

© Bill Boulton August, 1998

A Miner's Diary

Page from Uncle Jack's diary