BIRTH:  Unknown
DEATH:  July of 1882 (White Valley, BC)

• "Dure Meadow Road" named after him because of preempted land.
• Earned money by packing supplies to Cherry Creek miners.
• Was hired to collect poll tax from the Chinese mining.

One day Dewar's horse was found wondering home without its rider, inquiries were made as to the whereabouts of Dewar. Suspicions arose when they noticed the saddle was under the horse's belly as if the rider were thrown from the horse. But the saddle was cinched tight that way, meaning someone had put it that way. They then formed a search party and sent it out around around the area. At the same time of the search a Chinese man named Smart Alec had disappeared without cleaning up his sluice box or taking his possessions.

Twenty days after the search had started, a miner, John Merrit found Dewars body under Alec's cabin with one wound to the back of the head which looked to be an axe mark. 75 days were spent looking for Alec but he was never found, a year later a reward was offered but never claimed.

In 1888 Merrit and his partner Kerr, were digging a tunnel on there claim at Cherry Creek when Frank Shaffer approached them and told them he had found bones of a man. When they found the bones, they could tell that it was a Chinese man because of the type of clothing. A strychnine bottle was there with a small amount of poison in it. John Merrit had been around the Cherry Creek long enough and knew both the Whites and Chinese well enough that he could account for them all. He was convinced that they had found the remains of Smart Alec.