Dr. Lesley Brown will take over the reins at the university in mid-August.
Until then, she’s keeping busy making the transition from life in Calgary to rookie northerner.
She and her spouse, Paddy McLean, were house-hunting in Whitehorse last week ... and getting a crash course in the tricky and frenetic business of the local real estate market.
“Housing is a bit of an issue,” she conceded in an interview, showing a gift for understatement.
She and McLean are juggling their move at the moment, and it’s a complicated process.
“There’s lots of moving parts.”
Like many others, Brown said she fell in love with the siren call of the Yukon...and Whitehorse...while visiting on business.