Women Who Lived and Loved North of 60 by Toni Graeme

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Synopsis

Short stories from women who pioneered Canada's north from 1937 to the present, who wove the social fabric that helped them in the challenges and to celebrate the joys. There were bears or wolves threatening the family or food supplies, awe of the magic aurora borealis, the land, and best of all warm loving friendships that will be in their hearts forever.

Biography

Toni Graeme, born and bred in Vancouver, British Columbia, of adventuresome Scottish stock, is a rolling stone gathering little moss as she wends her way through the world. She has lived in Toronto, Montreal, Winnipeg, US, UK and India. In the North she traveled extensively and came to know and love the people and the land, within the tree line as well as on the barren lands. She and her partner built a house at Prelude Lake, 25 kilometres northeast of Yellowknife (in the bush), and as a passionate gardener, grew an abundance of vegetables and flowers, and raised Samoyed dogs. Her organically fed chickens produced many dozens of eggs for her family and others. Toni now lives in Victoria, BC.

In Yukon, Toni waitressed, was a secretary, was then the Resource Person for the Yukon Status of Women in 1978/79. After moving to the NWT, she was a secretary briefly, then Women's Employment Counsellor for Yellowknife, the Central and High Arctic for the federal government, CEIC, now HRDC and co-ordinated the training-hiring selection of northerners for the Zama-Norman Wells pipeline. In 1984 Toni was chosen to be the NWT government's first Executive Director of the Women's Secretariat and Status of Women Council from 1984 to 1988 She also served seven years as the first woman on the NWT Apprenticeship Board.

Visit Toni's website at tonigraeme.com