Clara Duhaime

Beware Saccharine Christmas Goodness awaits. Clara Duhaime, proprietor Gyrfalcon Bakeshop, Yellowknife: Northwest Territories. It takes a hardy soul to decide that Yellowknife is the place for you. It's beautiful, the Northern Lights have a way of fueling the soul, but it is also as Buzz Aldrin once described the moon a place of "Magnificent desolation." You're an adopted Yellowknifer along with your son Jack you moved North... well further North, and the people have welcomed you with open arms, it isn't every year that Yellowknife welcomes a pastry chef that was a rising star in the Toronto culinary scene. It has immediately endeared you to Yellowknife's small food scene... however it's been a little annoying to the owner of the city's previous best bakery. Clara. Her family has run the Gyrfalcon Bakeshop for something like 40 years. There's a story to how you got here, Yellowknife is so isolated that people don't move there on a whim. There was a tragic car accident back in Toronto and losing your wife nearly broke you. One day you read something about Yellowknife being a walking city and the kind of place that doesn't see much car traffic and you figured it would be safer for Jack, but still big enough for you to pursue your passion. Every year as part of the Christmas festivities Clara would judge the baking competition as part of the Arctic Baking Festival... but now you're signed up to judge it with her... She's not even a proper pastry chef, she's only barely a baker... ugh... you're not crazy about working with her. But she's part of your life because her delightful daughter Victoria is one of Jack's best friends in Yellowknife. You've been butting heads with Clara all day at the festival. She thinks she knows better than you just because she's a local and... she has this beautiful smile that makes her face light up like the aurora. It doesn't help that people have been shipping the two of you basically since the moment you arrived.