Gary Bailie
Gary Bailie, a Kwanlin Dün First Nation citizen, was in a cross-country ski program called Les Epoirs (The Hopefuls) as a youth. Father Jean-Marie Mouchet recruited him to his Territorial Experimental Ski Training (TEST) program. Fred Kelly, a Canadian Junior ski champion in 1968 and a member of the 1972 Sapporo Olympic ski team, took Gary under his wing when Gary was twelve. In those years most of the Canadian ski team were First Nations. Gary trained hard and became a member of the national B ski team. In Whitehorse, Gary has run the Kwanlin Koyotes cross country ski program for many years. The program has personal growth of the individual as its only priority and Gary encourages skiers of all ages to join. The Kwanlin Koyotes uses a trail system in the McIntyre subdivision that Gary built over the years. Gary Bailie was inducted into the Yukon Sports Hall of Fame in June 2014.1)