Patricia McClelland

Patricia McClelland studied in Ontario and Manitoba before she came north in 1977. She was hired as a community nurse in Watson Lake to investigate and treat a tuberculosis outbreak. She worked as a staff nurse on the surgical ward of the Whitehorse Hospital before leaving for Alberta to continue her studies in nursing.

Patricia returned to the Yukon permanently in 1989 and became the executive director of the Yukon Nurses Society (later the Yukon Registered Nurses Association). She was on the committee that drafted the 1994 enactment of Yukon's Registered Nurses Profession Act. She was also an active board member for the Canadian Nurses Association. She was a nurse for more than thirty-five years and then started teaching health programs at Yukon College. In 2008, Patricia McClelland was recognized by Prime Minister Stephen Harper as one of the country's “Nurses to Know.”¹⁾