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 Evelyn Mae “Babe” Brown Richards (1924 - 2016)
-Babe Richards was born in Whitehorse to parents Bernadine (Langholtz) and T.C. Richards. She grew up when Whitehorse was a town of about 300 people in the winter and about 500 in the summer.((Stephanie Waddell, “Pillar of the volunteer community remembered.” //Whitehorse Daily Star// (Whitehorse), 22 April 2016.)) She spent summers in the country as her father worked on his own mining ventures. She rode with him as he delivered fuel to the airstrip at Burwash. She would stay behind at McIntosh Lodge while her father completed the last difficult miles on the journey. Babe finished her schooling outside and returned to the Yukon in 1942 when the town was busy with soldiers.((Erin Linn McMullan, “The Road that Babe Built.” //Yukon, North of Ordinary,// Spring 2010: 49-52.))
+Babe Richards was born in Whitehorse to parents Bernadine (Langholtz) and T.C. Richards. She grew up when Whitehorse was a town of about 300 people in the winter and about 500 in the summer.((Stephanie Waddell, “Pillar of the volunteer community remembered.” //Whitehorse Daily Star// (Whitehorse), 22 April 2016.)) She spent summers in the country as her father worked on his own mining ventures. She rode with him as he delivered fuel to the airstrip at Burwash. She would stay behind at McIntosh Lodge while her father completed the last difficult miles on the journey.((Erin Linn McMullan, “The Road that Babe Built.” //Yukon, North of Ordinary,// Spring 2010: 49-52.))
+Babe graduated from Crofton House in Vancouver in 1942 and planned to attend nursing school. She flew back top Whitehorse that summer and, after her oldest brother, Cecil, drowned in Ear Lake she lost heart for continued education.  She worked as a desk clerk in her father's Whitehorse Inn.((Diane Green, "The 'Unsinkable' Babe Richards" in Sam Holloway, editor, //The Yukon Reader,// Volume Two, 2024: 41-54.))
 Babe Richards married John Brown and they lived in Whitehorse and Watson Lake.((Stephanie Waddell, “Pillar of the volunteer community remembered.” //Whitehorse Daily Star// (Whitehorse), 22 April 2016.)) Brown ran a sawmill in Watson Lake.((Myles Dolphin, "Whitehorse's Babe Richards remembered." //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 29 April 2016.)) They moved to northern British Columbia in 1967.((Stephanie Waddell, “Pillar of the volunteer community remembered.” //Whitehorse Daily Star// (Whitehorse), 22 April 2016.))