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Jeanne Beaudoin (b. 1958)
Jeanne Beaudoin was born in Malartic, Québec and arrived in the Yukon in 1982. She worked as a bilingual guide interpreter in Dawson and then as a French instructor in Yukon schools and giving classes to students in the evenings.1)
Jeanne met her husband in Dawson, and they ultimately settled in Whitehorse after travelling through Europe. Beaudoin worked for twenty-five years with the Association franco-yukonnaise. She oversaw the creation of a French-language school, a French day care, and she was instrumental in implementing the Yukon Languages Act. She spent approximately half of her service volunteering or working for a very low wage. She was the only employee in 1984. In 2008, Beaudoin was working for the French Language Service Directorate, the establishment she spent so many years petitioning for funding.2)
Jeanne Boudoin was named volunteer of the year of the Association franco-yukonnaise in 1987, 1995 and 1997. She was recognized by the Yukon Women’s Directorate in 1995. She was named Woman of the Year by Essentielles, where she was a founding member, in 2001. She received the Public Volunteer Service Award from the Commission or the Yukon in 1999. In 2012 she the Ordre des francophone d’Amérique. She received the Order des Prix boreal of the Federation of Acadian and Francophone Communities in 2017. Jeanne Boudoin was inducted into the Order of Yukon in 2022.3)