Larry Barrett (b. 1945)

Larry Barrett was born in Victoria, British Columbia to the Kookhittaan Clan and as a member of the Carcross/Tagish First Nation. His maternal grandparents were Alex McLeod and Annie (Jim) McLeod. His mother was Christina McLeod and his stepfather was Bud Barrett. Larry learned to trap and hunt from his paternal grandfather, Jackie Good, at Carcross. His grandmother Annie McLeod showed him how to snare gophers and rabbits. Larry first attended public school in Carcross and after he went to school in Whitehorse he walked home to Carcross on the weekends. He was a YANSI field worker from 1977 to 1979 and a member of the Whitehorse YANSI Local. He worked on YANSI projects in Carcross including the installation of a small sawmill for building a footbridge between the south side and town, infrastructure for TV service, a service to haul firewood for Elders, and building log houses for Non Status people. Larry went on to become a government advisor with First Nations in Watson Lake, Teslin, Atlin, and Carcross. As a businessman, he started a bakery in Whitehorse, built several cabins, ran a trapline and owned heavy equipment to build roads on his Montana Mountain mining claim. He was a member of the Yukon River Basin Task Force and sat on the Carcross/Tagish First Nation Executive Council in 2013.((YANSI Elders Circle, //It’s our Time to Tell Our Story.// Whitehorse Aboriginal Women’s Circle, 2025: 213-14.))