CANADIAN JUDGE

Greymouth Evening Star, 16 April 1937, Page 4

CANADIAN JUDGE

USES DOG TEAM AND ’PLANE

Mr. Charles D. Macaulay is the only judge in Canada, and perhaps the only one in the Empire, who uses on circuit such varied means of transport as dog teams, horses and aeroplanes. His area is Yukon Territory, north of British Columbia. Mr. Macaulay, a native of Ontario, first went to the Yukon in 1901 during the gold rush, as a magistrate. The following year he was made a judge. At that time three judges wore needed to carry on the business but by the time the others retired in 1912 the boom era was over, and he was left to carry on alone.

The 74 year old judge travels over his 200,000 square miles of territory using a variety of means of transportation from dog teams to aeroplanes. He holds court at Dawson City, Mayo, Keno. and Whitehorse, and on one occasion went north to the shores of the Arctic Ocean to hold a special court at White Crow, a small and isolated settlement. There are only about 4,000 people and four lawyers permanently resident in the territory but the judge said that there was no lack of variety in the cases brought before him which range from divorce to workmen’s damages, and from petty crime to murder. The last murder trial was in December.

Although his permanent residence is Dawson City, by a special arrangement with the Government the judge now spends his winters in Vancouver and goes north by train and aeroplane should his presence be required.

The Yukon to-day is enjoying a new measure of prosperity. With the rise; in the price of gold now quartz mines have been opened and there is increased activity in placer mining. One placer mine, he said, is working on a single patch which will keep 10 dredges busy for from 10 to 20 years.

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