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| Stephen Frost (1933 - 2020) | Stephen Frost Sr. (1933 - 2020) |
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| Stephen Frost was born in Old Crow to parents Harold and Clara Frost. He spent most of his growing up years at Bluefish and a couple of years at Rampart House.((“Stephen Frost.” //Old Crow – Yukon: Home of the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation: Elders.// 2019 website: http://www.oldcrow.ca/elders.htm)) Steven remembered sometimes going hungry as a child. He saw his first town in 1961 at age twenty-eight.((Roxanne Livingston, "A moccasin in both worlds." //The Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 13 April 2005.)) | Stephen Frost was born in Old Crow to parents Harold and Clara Frost. He spent most of his growing up years at Bluefish and a couple of years at Rampart House.((“Stephen Frost.” //Old Crow – Yukon: Home of the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation: Elders.// 2019 website: http://www.oldcrow.ca/elders.htm)) Steven remembered sometimes going hungry as a child. He saw his first town in 1961 at age twenty-eight.((Roxanne Livingston, "A moccasin in both worlds." //The Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 13 April 2005.)) Stephen married Ethel Peter and together they raised eleven children.((YANSI Elders Circle, //It’s our Time to Tell Our Story.// Whitehorse Aboriginal Women’s Circle, 2025: 218.)) |
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| | In the 1970s, Stephen was president of the Old Crow YANSI Local and was actively involved in building homes and sponsoring programs for Non Status people. He was involved in establishing the Yukon Trappers Association.((YANSI Elders Circle, //It’s our Time to Tell Our Story.// Whitehorse Aboriginal Women’s Circle, 2025: 218.)) |
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| Frost was invited to race his dog team in the North American Championships in Anchorage. The Gwich'in did not use harness where the dogs worked side by side. His five or six dogs were strung out single file with a moose skin collar and caribou hair for back and belly bands. He was up against the world's best with twelve or sixteen dogs. He did not want to spoil their time so got off the trail when they came up behind. He finished maybe two hours behind but had a great time. He liked the race and came to Whitehorse in the next year for the new carnival called Rendezvous. Within a few years he was a champion and sponsored by the Edgewater Hotel. He drove his dogs right into the bar and gee-ed his dogs around the tables that were piled in the centre.((Roxanne Livingston, "A moccasin in both worlds." //The Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 13 April 2005.)) In the 1980s, he served a year as the race marshal for the 1,000-mile Yukon Quest dog race.((Chuck Tobin, “Elder remembered for leadership, compassion.” //The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 9 September 2020.)) | Frost was invited to race his dog team in the North American Championships in Anchorage. The Gwich'in did not use harness where the dogs worked side by side. His five or six dogs were strung out single file with a moose skin collar and caribou hair for back and belly bands. He was up against the world's best with twelve or sixteen dogs. He did not want to spoil their time so got off the trail when they came up behind. He finished maybe two hours behind but had a great time. He liked the race and came to Whitehorse in the next year for the new carnival called Rendezvous. Within a few years he was a champion and sponsored by the Edgewater Hotel. He drove his dogs right into the bar and gee-ed his dogs around the tables that were piled in the centre.((Roxanne Livingston, "A moccasin in both worlds." //The Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 13 April 2005.)) In the 1980s, he served a year as the race marshal for the 1,000-mile Yukon Quest dog race.((Chuck Tobin, “Elder remembered for leadership, compassion.” //The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 9 September 2020.)) |
