Linda McDonald
	
Linda McDonald grew up at Windid Lake, just outside Watson Lake. Her mother’s father came north during the gold rush and Watson Lake is named for him. When Linda was three, she had tuberculosis and was sent to a sanitorium in Edmonton with her older sister and father. Her father died when she was fourteen. She remembers her parents having the traditional First Nation qualities of sharing and kindness.((//Celebration 1991: A Yukon Woman’s Daybook.// Yukon Advisory Council on Women’s Issues, 1990: 18.))
	
Linda graduated with a MA in Northern Studies from Carleton University and a MA in Linguistics from Simon Fraser University.  Linda was the president of the Yukon Indian Women’s Association, was involved with the Yukon Aboriginal Women’s Infrastructure Program and was on the Board of Governors of Yukon College (now Yukon University). Linda was a teacher for twenty-three years in Watson Lake and retired in 2022 to run her own business as a First Nation educational/language consultant.((//Celebration 1991: A Yukon Woman’s Daybook.// Yukon Advisory Council on Women’s Issues, 1990: 18; //LinkedIn.//))