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 Mellett was the first single woman hired by the Church Missionary Society to go and teach in a northern Canadian mission.((Ken Spotswood, //The Rush for Souls,// St. Paul’s Anglican Pro-Cathedral, Dawson City, 2002: 34-35.)) She was twenty-two in 1893 when Bishop Bompas met her at St. Michael and escorted her up the Yukon River to Forty Mile. Susan Millet taught at the mission day school for people of all sorts, sizes and ages - men, women and children. It was their first school and they were eager to learn.((“Reminiscences of Rev. R.J. Bowen.” //Northern Lights,// XXX, August 1941: 2-5.))
-Susan also helped Mrs. Bompas with the household work [and presumably the eleven children that the Bompas’ had living in the house].((//Five Pioneer Women in the Anglican Church in the Yukon.// Whitehorse: Women's Auxiliary of the Anglican Church, 1983: 1-5.)) In 1898, when Mrs. Bompas was away, Susan nursed the bishop through a severe bout of scurvy.((Hannah Tolman, //Women of the Anglican Church in the Yukon.// Whitehorse: The Old Log Church Museum, 2019: 2-3.)) Bishop Bompas spent many hours teaching Mellett Tukudh, Archdeacon McDonald’s translation of the Gwichin language.((Myra Rutherdale, //Women and the White Man’s God.// UBC Press, 2002: 66.))
+Susan also helped Mrs. Bompas with the household work [and presumably the eleven children that the Bompas’ had living in the house].((//Five Pioneer Women in the Anglican Church in the Yukon.// Whitehorse: Women's Auxiliary of the Anglican Church, 1983: 1-5.)) In 1898, when Mrs. Bompas was away, Susan nursed the bishop through a severe bout of scurvy.((Hannah Tolman, //Women of the Anglican Church in the Yukon.// Whitehorse: The Old Log Church Museum, 2019: 2-3.)) Bishop Bompas spent many hours teaching Mellett Tukudh, Archdeacon McDonald’s translation of the Gwich'in language.((Myra Rutherdale, //Women and the White Man’s God.// UBC Press, 2002: 66.))
 In 1894, Mellett accompanied the Canhams, a missionary couple, to Rampart House as Mrs. Canham was in poor health. Mellett remembered an active school when the Gwichin were in town, but they were often away hunting and fishing. The winter of 1895/96 was harsh, and she reported near famine conditions. She also went eighteen months without mail as the trading post was closed and there was no regular traffic. In June 1896 the Canhams left on furlough and Mellett returned to Forty Mile.((Colin Beairsto, "Making Camp: Rampart House on the Porcupine River.” Prepared for the Yukon Heritage Branch, March 1997: 112, 115.))