Florence Annie Taylor (1904 - 1980)
Florence Taylor was born in Whitehorse to parents Isaac and Sarah Drury Taylor. After obtaining her primary and secondary education in local schools, she was sent overseas at age sixteen to attend the Clairemont School for Girls at Esher, England. She later attended the Sorbonne and the London School of Economics. While visiting her family about 1925, she stayed with an uncle who managed the family store at Fort Selkirk. She discovered the diary of Edward Lester, aka Edward Lincoln, of the Yukon Field Force in the nearby abandoned barracks.1)
From about 1928 to 1932, Florence Taylor worked as assistant staff superintendent and later as a departmental manager for the Woodwards department store in Vancouver. In 1933, she immigrated to England and worked in the Juvenile Employment Office for the London Region until her retirement in 1969. She died in England and left the diary in her estate to the Public Archives of Canada (Library and Archives Canada). There is a copy of the diary at the Yukon Archives.2)