Yukon who is who

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Doris Jean Newmarsh, nee Bell (1894 – 1982)
	
Doris Newmarsh was six years old when she travelled to Dawson with her mother Flossie and older sister Aileen. They were joining her father, James Langlois Bell, who came north to mine but whose skills as a lawyer were in higher demand. Bell and his girls were winter sports enthusiasts. The family moved to Whitehorse in 1915 when Judge Bell became Stipendiary Magistrate. The family home was on the site of the current MacBride Museum, and it became a social centre for the community. Aileen married Royal Northwest Mounted Police Major Ned Telford and settled in Dawson. Doris married Jack Newmarsh in 1917. He had been transferred to Whitehorse as a manager of the Bank of Commerce in 1916. Doris was an accomplished trapper and hunter and in the 1920s she took a month-long hunting trip in the Kluane area with Mrs. Harbottle and guides Gene Jacquot, Tom Dickson, and Jack Allen. Doris had a trapline in 1925 and after her son was born, Charles went with her wrapped in furs on the dog sled. In 1927, the Newmarshs were transferred to Victoria, British Columbia where Jack managed a bank branch until his retirement in 1946.((Delores Smith, “Newmarsh lived outside the stereotype.” //The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 1 May 1996.))