Frank Turner
	
Frank Turner grew up in Toronto and received a MA in Social Work from Wilfred Laurier University. He came to the Yukon in 1973 and lived on Squatter’s Road in Whitehorse. After his pet dog got pregnant, Turner was pulled into looking after sled dogs.((Frank Turner and John Firth presented “Dogs! Packing Our Stories Over New Trails” in June 2017. 2020 website: https://goytm.ca/event/dogs-packing-stories/.)) 

Turner became a veteran dog musher and wilderness tourism operator. He won the Yukon Quest dog race in 1995 with a time of ten days, sixteen hours, and twenty minutes. He also won the Mayor’s Award that year and his lead dogs, Buck and Grizzly, received golden harnesses and a meal of raw steak at the Finish and Awards Banquet. In 2001, Turner won the Veterinarian’s Choice Award for demonstrating outstanding care for his dogs. He won the Challenge of the North Award in 2003 for being the musher who most exemplified the “Spirt of the Yukon Quest” in challenging themselves and persevering.((“Musher Hall of Fame.” Yukon Quest, 2020 website: https://www.yukonquest.com/race-central/yukon-quest-1000-mile/past-results/musher-hall-fame.))

Turner raced the Yukon Quest twenty-four times in twenty-five years. In 2012, he was operating Muktuk Adventures just outside Whitehorse. He talked about his team and sang with his dogs in a 2012 video.((Birgit-Cathrin Duval video. 2020 website: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iObc7mgkcgQ.))