Doris Marie “Diana” McCandless, nee Howard (1903 – 1997)
	
Diana McCandless was born in London, England to an aristocratic family. Her father died when she was young and she was bumped around to boarding schools, including one of the first Montessori schools in Lausanne, Switzerland. She contracted polio when she was young and tightened muscles on one side of her face left her looking intimidating; friends thought she sometimes used that to her advantage. Diana emigrated to Canada in the 1930s and, during the depression, ran a hat shop in Kamloops. She moved to Vancouver during the war and, at age forty-four, married Jack McCandless who had just been released from his war-time service. They moved to Whitehorse in the 1950s.((Karen Smith, “Whitehorse socialite dies at 93.” //The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 30 January 1997.))\\

For many years, Diana ran the Sourdough Antiques shop on Front Street in Whitehorse. Every year she brought things back from England to sell, and she made hats including the big, feathered ones for Sourdough Rendezvous costumes. She and Jack loved to get dressed up and go dancing. Diana joined the International Order of the Daughters of the Empire, and the Royal Canadian Legion, and they both supported the National Institute for the Blind. A crescent in the McIntyre subdivision is named for Jack and Diana McCandless.((Karen Smith, “Whitehorse socialite dies at 93.” //The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 30 January 1997.))