Jan and Mimi Elliot
	
The Elliots started searching the Yukon for farmland in 1973 and moved to Sunnydale Farm across the Yukon River from Dawson in 1974. The farm dates back to the gold rush era. In 1978 Jan, Mimi, and their two teenage sons were living on a 640-acre farm with a cow, twenty-three hens, and one rooster. Eighty acres were cleared and there were three hundred left to cut. Jan mounted a bush blade on a D6 Cat and bulldozed the trees away and planted his first field of oats. There was a ready market for everything they could grow. One Whitehorse couple drove from Whitehorse every year to pick up trailer loads of hay for their horses. The Elliots hoped to be self-sufficient within a couple of years. They estimated the land would produce one and a half tons of hay per acre at $150 per ton. In 1978, the Elliots had the distinction of owning one of the few working farms north of 60 when Ottawa started a survey of potential agricultural sites in 1975. The government put a freeze on agricultural or grazing leases until the study was completed and land claims settled. The 1976 census reported there were only seventeen farms in the Yukon occupying 4,044 acres and with sales over $1,200 a year.((“A place of one’s own: Jack Elliot takes on bureaucrats and black flies to farm in the Yukon.” //The Financial Post// (Toronto), 9 December 1978.))
	
Mimi Elliot was a teacher for many years at the Robert Service school in Dawson, and at least three of her grandchildren graduated from the school, the third in 2011.((Lisa McKenna, “The Class of 2011.” //The Klondike Sun// (Dawson), 16 June 2011.))