Photo of plaque commemorating Joe Boyle. Plaque reads: "On this site stood 'The Firs," family home of Col. Joseph Whiteside Boyle, better known as "Klondike Joe" Boyle, sportsman, prospector, Yukon entrepreneur and diplomat. During World War I, as an allied agent in Russia, he reorganized the railway system, formed an espionage ring, saved the Roumanian crown jewels and became a friend and confidant of Queen Marie. When he died in England in 1923 he was described as Canada's greatest adventurer, hero and saviour of Roumania. Woodstock District Chamber of Commerce and Oxford Historical Society May 1974."
Inscription verso: Plaque commemorating Joe Boyle. Located at 980 Dundas St. Woodstock, Ontario, now a McDonald's restaurant.