George McKenzie, a thirty-three year old prospector from the Omineca River, was recovering in the Hazelton Hospital when Horace Wrinch and his family arrived back from Toronto in May 1906. On January 13, McKenzie had left his partner, Charles Newman, in charge of their camp to walk through the deep snow to another site. In the 65 degree below zero weather, his feet froze, so he returned to camp. Dan Sullivan, a fellow prospector, had a medicine chest at his camp four miles away, but Newman refused to go and get it. McKenzie suffered for eight weeks on salt meat, and eventually developed scurvy. Then a passing First Nations man “responding to the dictates of simple humanity” volunteered to fetch help from Sullivan. By the time Sullivan arrived with the medicine chest, McKenzie’s teeth were falling out and the flesh was peeling from his toes. Clearly McKenzie had to be taken to the hospital in Hazelton two hundred miles away as soon as possible. On March 25, Sullivan and three others, including two First Nations men, set out, with McKenzie strapped to a stretcher on a dog sled. The dogs were wild and almost unmanageable. Numerous times they got out of control and ran away with the sled, bumping over logs and rugged terrain. McKenzie, the Boundary Creek Times for May 6 reported, became too weak for the sled and so for the last twenty miles had to be carried on the stretcher, strapped between two pack horses. When they arrived at the hospital in Hazelton on April 5, after a journey of eleven days, MacKenzie was almost dead. He was treated by Dr. Rolls and, when he arrived home, Dr. Wrinch. He was discharged on May 26, cured, but missing four amputated toes. The charge was $15. He was Patient No.125.