Elizabeth Marie Innes-Taylor, nee Berglund (1924 - 2011)

Elizabeth Berglund was born in Duluth, Minnesota and raised with three bothers and one sister. She was a musician, playing piano and pipe organ, and also an athlete. During the Second World War she went to work for the coast guard in Washington, DC and met Captain Alan Innes-Taylor. They were married in 1944. They stayed in Alberta after the war and built the EB Beaver Ranch near Entrance, Alberta. Alan was recalled to active duty in 1952 and the family moved to Colorado where their youngest daughter Kristin was born. After a year in Idaho they drove to Fairbanks where they lived in the winter and spent summers in Eagle. They moved to Dawson 1959 and Elizabeth was a seamstress for the Broadway musical in 1962. Then she worked as a cook at the hospital and as a seamstress for the Sisters of St. Anne. The family moved to Whitehorse in 1967 with Cathie at university, Rollie travelling the world and Kirsten graduating from FH Collins in 1969 and going to university in Fairbanks. Elizabeth and Alan travelled the Yukon and bought a cabin at Frances Lake where they spent many summers after Alan retired. Cathie (Pat Ford) became a professor at the U of Fairbanks. Rollie (Akiko Ryu) moved to Japan and became a writer and kayaker. Kristen (Larry Lebedoff) became a teacher. Elizabeth spent her last three years at Copper Ridge in Whitehorse.¹⁾