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Derby Day in the Yukon is a Canadian poetry classic by Kate Simpson Hayes (Yukon Bill) that features the following exerpt: Shake, Pard! I'm mighty proud o' you! (I'm know'd as Yukon Bill ); You blazed th' trail an' blazed it true;---- Some o' my friends I see y' knew On old Che-cha-ko Hill; But say, old man, y' clean forgot my friend, Swiftwater Bill! You was a kid in pettic'uts When I went in, a man;

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Kate Simpson Hayes (pen names, Mary Markwell, Elaine, Marka Wohl, Yukon Bill; 6 July 1856 - 15 January 1945) was a Canadian playwright, author, journalist, poet, teacher, milliner, and legislative librarian. A founding member of the Canadian Women's Press Club, she was the first woman journalist in the Canadian West. Hayes wrote for the Free Press, Winnipeg, and wrote poetry using the pen name Mary Markwell for the Regina, Saskatchewan Leader. She married Charles Bowman Simpson in 2 June 1882; they had two children before separating in 1889. She had a relationship with Nicholas Flood Davin, and they had two children.[4] She was opposed to women being given the vote and she worked in the UK for a time encouraging other women to emigrate to Canada. She died in British Columbia in 1945.[5] Her papers are housed at the Saskatchewan Archives, McGill University, and National Archives of Canada.

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