DUCLOS, JOSEPH (318 ENGLISH)

DUCLOS, JOSEPH (318 ENGLISH)

DUCLOS, JOSEPH

Originally from Quebec, Joseph E.N. Duclos was a photographer in Dawson city as early as July 1899.  The Larss & Duclos Studio where he worked with his associate was situated at the corner of the 3^rd Avenue and King Street in Dawson City.

Joseph E.N. Duclos was a photographer in Dawson City right up until sometime around 1915; then he became an appointed temporary postman at the office of the harbors and ports in Dawson City.

On the 4^th of March 1903, his wife, Emilie Saint-Hilaire gave birth to a daughter who died eleven days later.  Joseph Duclos died on March 31, 1917, aged 54 and was buried in Dawson city on April 4^th.

His name is found at the bottom of various photos in the archives representing the life of the Yukon at the beginning of the century.

Ref. Empreinte, vol 11 page 41

NOTA BENE: In one week only, during the summer of 1899, 9000 people left Dawson City for Nome, Alaska, enticed by the rumors of another important gold discovery.  Dawson City started its period of economic decline.  Activities there became less centralized and other activities in the Yukon developed, especially in the regions of Mayo-Keno and Whitehorse.

According to the 1901 census, the population of the Yukon was around 27,000, with 9,000 people in Dawson City and most of the others in the region of the Klondike.

“…While  a number of gold seekers had already gone back home, the Franco-phones remained, and their average age was 33 years, and were about one fourth of the total population which was 9142 without counting the numerous gold-seekers  who lived right on the gold mining concessions in a radius of 60 miles (100 km) around the city.

Ref. Empreint, vol 11, page 68.