Selina Totty, nee Mayo (1879 - 1960)
	
Selina Totty was born on the Yukon River at Old Station [Tanana], Alaska to parents Al and Margaret Mayo. She was baptised by Reverend V. C. Sim in 1884. The Mayo family lived at Forty Mile from around 1888 into the early 1890s.((University of Alaska, “Notes: Mayo Family.” Project Jukebox, 2019 website: http://jukebox.uaf.edu/Rampart/html/mayon.htm)) Selina lived with Bishop and Mrs. Bompas at nearby Buxton Mission for two or three years before 1895. The Bishop thought highly of her.((Marjorie E. Almstrom, //A Century of Schooling: Education in the Yukon 1861 – 1961.// Whitehorse, 1991: 89-90.)) 
Selina fell in love with a miner that her father and Bishop Bompas considered inappropriate. Reverend Totty needed a wife, and Mayo and Bompas arranged for Selina to marry him.((Cheryl Gaver, “Solitudes in Shared Spaces: Aboriginal and EuroCanadian Anglicans in the Yukon and the Northwest Territories in the Post-Residential School Era.” Thesis submitted for a Ph.D. in Religious Studies to the Faculty of Arts, University of Ottawa, 2011: 233.)) Selina and Benjamin Totty were married in 1895 and they had five children.((University of Alaska, “Notes: Mayo Family.” Project Jukebox, 2019 website: http://jukebox.uaf.edu/Rampart/html/mayon.htm))
	
Selina Totty organized a branch of the Women’s Institute at Moosehide in 1910 with five founding members encouraged to run it. In 1913, the number of members had grown to twelve but shrank two years later when those members stopped attending meetings. Selina imposed an elected executive in 1916 and members voted in Eliza Isaac and her sister Sarah Harper as president and vice. The group was strong in 1928 with twelve women regularly attending meetings.((Heather Green, “The Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in and the Great Upheaval: Mining Colonialism, and Environmental Change in the Klondike, 1890-1940. Thesis for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy for the Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta, 2018: 152.)) 
	
Professor Trumpour, a visiting Anglican minister, held two services at Moosehide in 1925 and Mrs. Totty translated for him. He was very impressed with the heartiness of the service and by the congregational singing in Tukudh [Archdeacon Robert McDonald’s translation of Gwich’in]. That year, there was an epidemic of influenza in Moosehide and Mrs. Totty was nursed in her home by Miss. Vale from St. Paul’s Hostel.((“Moosehide.” //Northern Lights,// No. 3, Vol. XIII, August 1925: 8.)) 
	
Selina and Benjamin Totty’s sons Elliot and Alfred served in the First World War. Selina died in New Westminster, British Columbia.((University of Alaska, “Notes: Mayo Family.” Project Jukebox, 2019 website: http://jukebox.uaf.edu/Rampart/html/mayon.htm))