‘GOVERNMENT’S WIFE’

Greymouth Evening Star, 16 May 1934, Page 2

‘GOVERNMENT’S WIFE’

WOMAN AND FROZEN NORTH LONDON, March 12. Mrs. C. B. Tidd, who is known as ‘•the Government’s wife” to the Indians in the Yukon Territory, where she has spent nine years with her husband, Sgt. Tidd, of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, sailed from Southampton yesterday in the Cunaarder Aiaunia to rejoin her husband. Mrs Tidd, who is bound for the most isokited post at which “Mounties” are stationed, has been spending a holiday with her husband’s parents at Derain: ham. Norfolk, after nine consecutive winters in the Frozen North, in- ■

chiding four years at. a post in the 't ukon where no other white woman had lived previously. Mrs. Tidd stated before sailing: ‘‘The Yukon is 10,000 miles away, but i: is drawing me like a magnet. lam longing for the tang of the Northern air.” Mrs. I idd was a nurse in an Aineri I can mission at. Fort Yukon when she ( met. her English husband, and lhev were married the following year. Then I she went, everywhere with him. acI compauying him on many criminal in vostigations.

“Atone post,” she said, “where 11m Indians had never before seen a white woman, they used to call me ‘the Government’s wife.’ We only had contact twice a year with the outside ' world, and we had to trek 600 miles to > get our letters.”