ROUSSEAU, ALBERT - LE PREMIER JOURNAL
ROUSSEAU, ALBERT---THE FIRST NEWSPAPER
Albert Rousseau was born on the first of January 1885 in Knoxville, Iowa, USA He grew up in California where he learned to become a printer.
In 1889, with E.J. White, he founded a newspaper at Summer, WA, which kept him busy for nearly ten years, In 1898, Rousseau went North with his wife and two young sons and was a printer in Skagway, Alaska, then in 1900 he went to Bennett (Yukon) which was a prosperous city then. He managed a small daily for C. Scharschmidt. After a few months he left Bennett to go to settle in Whitehorse. With M. McEacheren, they founded the Daily Evening Star which is now the Whitehorse Star. Albert Rousseau still had interest** in this until 1904 when he returned to the state of Washington, US with his family. Twelve years later, he went back to Whitehorse and re-purchased the newspaper which he had first founded. He worked there without stop with his son, Lovell C. Rousseau until an apoplexy attack forced him to rest.
Albert Rousseau died on November 8, 1920, aged 65. During his funeral the business people of Whitehorse shut-down their businesses for one hour in homage to this pioneer of journalism in the North.
Ref. Empreinte, vol.11, pages 108-109
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