Margaret Emily Baker, nee Boddington (1925 – 2014)

Marg Boddington was born in Toronto, Ontario. The family moved to the Muskoka Lake area when she was six. She travelled to Toronto to live with an aunt to go to high school. In 1942, at age seventeen, she went to work at the Massey Harris aircraft plant where she installed wings on the de Havilland Mosquito bombers. At nineteen she joined the RCAF and was posted to Halifax where she met her future husband, Ken Baker. After the war they married and two of their children were born in Halifax. The family moved to the Yukon in 1952, and the next four children were born in Whitehorse. Marg joined the Women's Auxiliary in 1954 and later the PTA and was a Brownie and Girl Guide leader and Division Commissioner. She was a long-standing member of the Anglican Church, sang in the choir, and volunteered at the soup kitchen. She was a member of the Golden Age Society, Canadian Legion, Elder Active, YOOP, and the Yukon Council on Aging. She was the recipient of many awards: Mr. Hockey, City of Whitehorse Volunteer of the Year twice, and was a volunteer with the Whitehorse General Hospital.¹⁾