The inscription at the base of Robert Service's statue in Sitka. Robert William Service was born on January 16, 1874 to a Scottish bank clerk and the daughter of an English factory owner.

In 1896 he emigrated to Canada, settled on a ranch in British Columbia with his brother and eventually ended up in the Yukon where he got the inspiration for his poems of the Klondike and the gold rush.

Though he never returned to the Yukon after he left in 1912 it remained a part of his life until his death in 1958.