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Amy Cletheroe, nee Laberge

Amy Laberge was the daughter of Jenny Laberge and Laberge Billy, a family that had their base camp at Winter Crossing.1) When she was young, she fell into a fire and was very badly burned. Her family had given her up for dead, but Billy Cletheroe took her to the Whitehorse hospital, and she survived. She was burned on her left side and could never straighten out her left arm after that. When her older sister was taken to Chooutla residential school, Army missed her so much that she ran away to be with her. She stayed at the school for five years and then married Billie Cletheroe, the man who rescued her at Winter Crossing. He was thirty years her elder. This was in 1925 or 1926 when Billy was the manager of the Taylor and Drury store in Champagne.2)

1)
Ruth Gotthardt, Ta'an Kwach'an, People of the Lake. Whitehorse: YTG/NRI. 2000.
2)
Joyce Hayden, Yukon’s Women of Power. Windwalker Press, 1999: 249, 252.
c/a_cletheroe.txt · Last modified: 2024/10/23 20:50 by sallyr