Here are some of the wonderful people you
will meet in Sarah Gaetz's Memoir ....
Of course, Ken and Sarah Gaetz are the central figures in this memoir, but they lead to many others...
Chief Johnny Lamalice, pictured in the Native village in the early 50s
Mary Norn, one of Sarah's dearest friends, was an expert tanner of moose hide, shown here at Sandy Creek in the mid-1960s
Mary Norns shows Grace Veale Mitts one on the steps in moose hide tanning,, mid-1950s
Celine and Dora Lamalice enjoy a fire on the Great Slave Lake beach, late 1950s
Beatrice Purdy (Abbey) was the first nurse at the community nursing station on Vale Island, opened in early 1953.
The first team of nurses at the newly opened H. H. Williams Memorial Hosptial in Hay River, 1957.
Iris Misiak, Ken's sister (who still lives in Hay River), was married to Chester who was the builder of Hay River's first hospital.
In 1961, Governor Georges Vanier and his wife, Pauline, visited Hay River. Madam Vanier visited the patients in the hospital and had tea wtih Sarah Gaetz and matron, Marion Parks.
Ozell Borden and Shirley Smith, long-time members of teh hospital staff, are off to visit the community of
Tulita (Fort Norman) in 1976.
Bobb porrit was a close friend of Ken and Sarah Gaetz the whole time they lived in the North. This photo was taken in July, 1980.
Since the early Fifties, Ken and Sarah were good friends with Red and Bertha McBryan. They had the chance to catch up again in Hay River at Iris and Chester Misiak's 50th wedding anniversary in 2004.