Yukon who is who

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Kathleen Adeline Cowaret, nee Martin. (1887 – 1958)
	
Kathleen Martin was born in Manitoba. She trained as a teacher and then worked in Vancouver in an office. She applied to the Bishop of Yukon, I.O. Stringer, for a missionary teaching post in 1916 and was sent to Fort Selkirk.((Yukon Archives, Kathleen Cowaret fonds.)) She and Alex Coward were married in 1929, after which she called herself Cowaret, not liking the implications of her husband’s name.((“Fort Selkirk Power & Sovereignty.” Government of Yukon, //Fort Selkirk virtual museum,// 2019 website:  http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/sgc-cms/expositions-exhibitions/fort_selkirk/english/index.html)) In 1931, Alex told Hugh Bostock that his real name was Cowart but Coward was easier for others to pronounce and spell.((H.S. Bostock, //Pack Horse Tracks – recollections of a geologists life in British Columbia and the Yukon 1924 – 1954.// Yukon Geoscience Forum, 1990: 70.))
	
Kathleen and Alex remained in Fort Selkirk until 1952 when she and Alex established a trading post at McCabe Creek.((Yukon Archives, Kathleen Cowaret fonds.)) She followed the people in an exodus to Minto when the town was virtually abandoned as the North Klondike highway was being built. She travelled to fish and wood camps, tending to the sick and teaching religion. The Selkirk elders remembered her with fondness.((“Fort Selkirk Power & Sovereignty.” Government of Yukon, Fort Selkirk virtual museum, 2019 website:  http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/sgc-cms/expositions-exhibitions/fort_selkirk/english/index.html)) Cowaret ran the McCabe Creek Post Office and her husband ran the trading post. The First Nation children were sent to residential school so she no longer taught.((Yukon Archives, Kathleen Cowaret fonds.)) 

Kathleen was elected to be the Yukon Diocese representative to the Anglican Church General Synod in 1955. In 1958 she received a Dominion Life Membership in the Women's Auxiliary and accompanied Bishop and Mrs. Greenwood to England. On her return, she went directly into hospital in Whitehorse where she died.((Yukon Archives, Kathleen Cowaret fonds.))