‘She was a force’: Ione Christensen, former Yukon commissioner and senator, dead at 91

‘She was a force’: Ione Christensen, former Yukon commissioner and senator, dead at 91

Ione Christensen, the former Yukon commissioner and senator, first female mayor of Whitehorse, and celebrated keeper of a century-old sourdough starter, has died. She was 91."She was a force," said Ron Veale, a retired Yukon Supreme Court judge and longtime friend of Christensen.

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