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| Frances and Bobby Austin were the first outfitters to set up business on the Dempster Highway. After Bobby’s death, his wife, now Frances Woosley, operated for a few years before selling out to Pete Jensen. Frances was the second woman to operate a big game hunting business in the Yukon. Belle Desrosiers was the first.((Dempster Highway Interpretive Strategy, Vol. 1: Background Report. YTG Dept. of Tourism and Dempster Highway Corridor Technical Study Team, 1989: 55-56.)) | Frances and Bobby Austin were the first outfitters to set up business on the Dempster Highway. After Bobby’s death, his wife, now Frances Woosley, operated for a few years before selling out to Pete Jensen. Frances was the second woman to operate a big game hunting business in the Yukon. Belle Desrosiers was the first.((Dempster Highway Interpretive Strategy, Vol. 1: Background Report. YTG Dept. of Tourism and Dempster Highway Corridor Technical Study Team, 1989: 55-56.)) | ||
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| - | In 1997, Frances was one of a group of elders and leaders who signed an agreement that finalized the separation of the Kwanlin Dun and the Ta’an Kwäch’än into two separate first nation governments.((// | + | From 1969 to 1971, Frances was the executive director of Skookum Jim Friendship Centre and is recognized as a key founding member of YANSI and YIWA. She helped establish the Thema Daycare in 1973 at the Yukon Indian Centre. In 1974, she worked for the Yukon Indian Arts and Crafts Society before moving to Haines Junction to work as a community social worked for Champagne and Aishihik First Nations from 1986 to 1990. She moved back t Whitehorse to work at the Gadzoosdaa Student Residence and then became a social worker for the Yukon Government before retiring in 2000.((YANSI Elders Circle, //It’s our Time to Tell Our Story.// Whitehorse Aboriginal Women’s Circle, 2025: 227-28.)) |
| Frances Woosley was presented with a 2020 Lifetime Achievement award presented by the Assembly of First Nations, Yukon Region for her outstanding contribution to Yukon First Nations, the Yukon, and beyond.((// | Frances Woosley was presented with a 2020 Lifetime Achievement award presented by the Assembly of First Nations, Yukon Region for her outstanding contribution to Yukon First Nations, the Yukon, and beyond.((// | ||
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