by Katelynn Blindheim | Aug 19, 2026 | 1994, Previous Award Recipients
1994 BONAR COOLEY Bonar Cooley was a founding member of the Teslin Historical & Museums Society (THMS) in 1972. The founding pieces of the George Johnston Museum collection were donated by Bonar and a group of five others. First Nation and non-First Nation,...
by Katelynn Blindheim | Aug 19, 2026 | 1994, Previous Award Recipients
1994 VIOLET STORER & MAY HUME Violet Storer (d. 2007) was born somewhere along the Teslin River to parents Jenny and Bill Laberge. She was raised as a Tagish Kwan hunter and gatherer with traditional values and was fluent in Tagish, Tlingit, Southern...
by Katelynn Blindheim | Aug 19, 2026 | 1993, Previous Award Recipients
1993 EDITH JOSIE Edith Josie’s parents were from Fort McPherson and moved to Eagle, Alaska in the days when no one travelling on the land noticed the Alaska/Yukon border. Edith and her four brothers were born in Eagle and the family moved to Old Crow in...
by Katelynn Blindheim | Aug 19, 2026 | 1993, Previous Award Recipients
1993 SAM HOLLOWAY Before he became a working electrician, Sam Holloway was the writer, publisher and editor of The Yukoner Magazine. Sam’s company description was “Welcome to the history of the Yukon, as told by the people who have lived it”....
by Katelynn Blindheim | Aug 19, 2026 | 1992, Previous Award Recipients
1992 DICK NORTH Dick North has been a talented interpreter of northern history and he started out in 1936 when he was a reporter for the Alaska Empire in Juneau. He was commissioned by the White Pass & Yukon Route to help locate Jack London’s cabin...
