Eleanor Millard is a novelist, researcher and social activist, http://www.eleanormillard.com/. A Member of the Legislative Assembly for Ogilvie (Dawson City), Yukon, 1974-1978, she became Minister of Education, Recreation, Housing and Employment. She talks about her life, career as author and researcher, and her experience with family caregiving. She describes her novel ‘Summer Snow’ and her research report ‘Kinship Care in the Yukon’. She discusses the challenges experienced by Amanda, the novel’s principal character, after adopting a young girl with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder. She descr
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