Dorothy Soronson, nee Walker (1934 – 2021)
	
Dorothy Walker was born in Yorkshire, England and completed her nurse’s training in Leeds, England. She emigrated to Canada and arrived in Whitehorse in 1962 to work at the Whitehorse General Hospital. This hospital was built soon after the bridge to Riverdale was completed in the 1950s and it replaced the old hospital where the main Yukon Government Administration Building is located today. In the 1960s, the Canadian Army and the Air Force had their own hospital in several log barracks buildings near the RCMP property. The 1960s Whitehorse General Hospital was replaced in the 1990s by the current hospital.((Pat Ellis, “Nurse remembered for decades of dedication.” //The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 2 July 2021.))

Dorothy met RCMP officer Harry Sorenson and they were married in 1966. They built a log cabin on Tagish Lake and their daughter was born in 1969. Harry developed cancer and died in 1971 and Dorothy brought up their daughter by herself. She continued to nurse and became a role model and the head nurse on the Whitehorse hospital medical ward.((Pat Ellis, “Nurse remembered for decades of dedication.” //The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 2 July 2021.))

Dorothy and Millie Jones looked after the alter linens and sacramental vessels in the Christ Church Cathedral and Dorothy was a lay reader and sang in the choir. She volunteered with the Women’s Auxiliary and the hospital Line of Life Association for twenty years after she retired. She was able to live in her own house, even after a diagnosis of Parkinson’s, through the support of her friends and neighbours, and then moved into a room at the Thompson Centre with a view of the river.((Pat Ellis, “Nurse remembered for decades of dedication.” //The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 2 July 2021.))