PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. - The RCMP's new top cop in Prince George, B.C., is Supt. Brenda Butterworth-Carr, the first woman and first aboriginal to hold the post.
Butterworth-Carr, only the third aboriginal woman in the Mounties' history to reach the rank of superintendent, takes over the sixth largest RCMP detachment in British Columbia.
Before the promotion, she was an inspector at North District headquarters in Prince George, helping oversee almost 40 detachments across the North.
Butterworth-Carr was born into the Tr'ondek Hwech'in (Han) First Nation based at Dawson City, Yukon.
She joined the RCMP in 1987 as a special constable and says she would have been impressed to become a corporal.
Butterworth-Carr says there are about 120 aboriginal women among the RCMP's 17,000 members and she wants to help boost the numbers both of women and First Nations people.
