Claire Festel of Penticton is the author of Remarkable Yukon Women (Harbour 2011), with fifty colour paintings by Valerie Hodgson, who was born and raise in North Vancouver. Both lived for many years in the Yukon. Festel provides one-page profiles for fifty women who were born and moved to the Yukon, complemented by Hodgson's realistic artwork.

BOOKS:

Remarkable Yukon Women (Harbour Publishing 2011) 978-1-55017-523-3 $29.95 CAD

[BCBW 2011]