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Photos of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Cemetery at Dawson City, Yukon

Royal Canadian Mounted Police Cemetery at Dawson City, Yukon
N.W.M.P.
Corporal T. Johnson
Regimental No. 2659
Tagish Post, Y.T.
Died August 11, 1900
Age 32
Corporal Johnson and Constable John O'Brien drowned in the Tagish River when their canoe overturned near the police wharf. Corporal Johnson's body was recovered on September 2nd, about 6 miles from the post, and was initially buried at Tagish.

This photograph is © 2002-2017 by Murray Lundberg, and is not to be copied without express permission.
Headboard for NWMP Corporal T. Johnson, in the RCMP Cemetery at Dawson City, Yukon



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