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Mary Luke (1903 - 1991)

Mary Luke was born at Fort Selkirk. Every winter, she and Taylor McGundy moved to their trapline.1) Their muskrat camp was not far from Carmacks and they had a nice cabin at 18 Mile.2) In the summer they lived at Mary’s well-known fish camp near Carmacks. Mary was kind-hearted and hard-working. Everyone was welcome at her fish camp.3) Mary Luke ran her fish camp for over fifty years. A photo at Yukon Archives shows George Dawson, Mary Luke, Emma Shorty, and Roxy Carrier at the camp in the 1960s.4)

1) , 4)
Jim Robb, “Old friends at Mary Luke’s fish camp.” Yukon News (Whitehorse), 5 August 2008.
2)
Jim Robb, “Taylor McGundy in the muskrat camp.” Yukon News (Whitehorse), 20 July 2009.
3)
Sweeny Scurvey, “Mary Isaac made people proud to be Indian.” Yukon News (Whitehorse), 12 April 1991.
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