I Married the Klondike Author:Laura Berton In 1907, Laura Beatrice Berton, a twenty-nine-year-old kindergarten teacher, left her comfortable life in Toronto to teach in a rough Yukon mining town. She fell in love with the North-and with a northerner-and made Dawson City her home for the next twenty-five years. I Married the Klondike is her classic and enduring memoir.