Émilie Fortin Tremblay

Émilie Tremblay (née, Marie-Émilie Fortin; January 4, 1872 – April 21, 1949) was one of the first white women to cross the Chilkoot on the way to the Yukon gold fields.

Her father, Cleophas Fortin, moved the French-Canadian Catholic family to Chicoutimi; her mother was a school teacher.

[2] They made their home at Miller Creek in a one-room log cabin that had been previously occupied by miners.

After Jack's death in 1935, Tremblay traveled to Vancouver to attend the "Ladies of the Golden North" convention, and to Quebec City where she received honors from the Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire, of which she was a life member.

She was honoured with a lifetime membership and received a commemorative medal in 1937 at the coronation of King George VI.

In 1940, at the age of 67, Tremblay married the gold miner Louis Lagrois, six years her elder, moving with him to a log cabin at Grand Forks.