Sally Ann Elizabeth Robinson (b. 1949.)
Sally Robinson was born in Orillia, Ontario not knowing it was also where noted North-West Mounted Police officer Sam Steele spent some of his childhood. She received a BA from York University (1972) and an MA in History from the University of Western Ontario (1997). She moved to the Yukon in the 1970s, first Whitehorse, then Dawson for twenty-three years, and then finally back to Whitehorse in 1998. Over the years, she worked as a bartender, carpenter, a museum researcher/exhibit designer/curator, and an interpretive planner for Yukon Historic Sites.
Sally’s published work includes “Humble Dreams: An historical perspective on Yukon agriculture since 1846” in The Northern Review, No. 32 (2010); “The Home Front: the Yukon response to WWI,” in The Northern Review, No. 44 (2017); and editor of Doug Bell, Sky Road North (Yukon Transportation Museum (2021).
She started keeping notes on people and events when she first moved to the Yukon, and this set of biographies, Yukon Who Is Who, is the result. It is, and always will be incomplete.