On the Trail of the Yukon’s Black Pioneers - thetyee.ca

Lillian Mabel Taylor worked in Livingstone Creek and Whitehorse from 1902-1913 as a cook and laundress, and owned mining claims. Image from the Yukon Archives, Eva Stehelin collection. The Atlin Pioneer Cemetery lies not far out of town on the Surprise Lake Road. Not long ago, my wife and I stopped there and walked among the gravestones and markers. One of them, a 1970s replacement for a long-vanished marker, was for “John Ellwood Simons, African, February 8, 1914 age 51 yrs; froze to death.” BC’s Black Pioneer Women READ MORE ANNOUNCEMENTS, EVENTS & MORE FROM TYEE AND SELECT PARTNERS Bard …