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Betty Irwin

Betty Irwin was a classical musician before coming to the Yukon. She played vibraharp, piano, and drums and she and her husband earned a living playing jazz. Betty was familiar with electronics through her experience as a musician and in Whitehorse she and her husband opened their own shop and ran it as a family business.(("Betty Irwin." //Celebration 1991: A Woman's Daybook.// Yukon Advisory Council on Women's Issues and the Women's Directorate, Government of Yukon, 1990: 68.))

Betty Irwin signed up for an electronic repair course in 1970 and was turned away because she was a woman She eventually became the first woman in Canada to get her license in television and radio repair. She went on to own three repair businesses in Whitehorse and co-founded Yukon Women in Trades and Technology to draw other women into trades. That experience prompted Irwin to run for city council  in 2009.Irwin was program co-ordinator for Yukon Women in Trades and Technology until 2008.((Vivian Belik, “Irwin offers council experiences in business and trades.” //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 23 September 2009.))

Betty Irwin was elected as a Whitehorse City councillor in 2009. In the 2012 municipal election, Irwin received the second most votes with 2,537. She successfully ran for another term in office in 2015.((Myles Dolphin, "Dave Stockdale and Betty Irwin announce candidacies for city council." //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 2 September 2015.)) Irwin took over as manager of the Whitehorse Mae Bachur Animal Shelter in 2014.((Sam Riches, "Betty Irwin takes over as manager of animal shelter." //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 4 July 2024.))

Betty was chair of the Yukon Advisory Council on Women’s Issues and the coordinator of the Trades Exploration Program for Women at Yukon College.(("Betty Irwin." //Celebration 1991: A Woman's Daybook.// Yukon Advisory Council on Women's Issues and the Women's Directorate, Government of Yukon, 1990: 68.))