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Posted on October 11, 2021 by Roger Harmston Posted in Terroir

Don’t be confused.  Two different titles but the same story.

“The Yukon is a wonderful country for men and dogs, but it kills women and horses.” At least that was what Amy Wilson was told.

Entitled When Days are Long: A Nurse in the North, by Wilson, who was a registered nurse in the Yukon from 1949 to 1951. In its original release in 1965, the book was titled No Man Stands Alone, and the American release came out under the title A Nurse in the Yukon many years later.

Regardless of which version you might be reading, the story remains the same.

Amy Wilson, who had been a practitioner in various isolated communities in northern Alberta, was hired to fill the job of public health nurse along the Alaska Highway and in the Yukon caring for 3,000 indigenous people in an area covering 50 million hectares.

In 1950, northern roads were crude; Aircraft weren’t as reliable as they are today, and communications were far less sophisticated. Despite all these drawbacks, she provided care for the sick and ailing to the best of her ability, delivered with compassion and understanding.

This book is a great read, and I heartily recommend it.

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