{{short description|Canadian politician}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder | image = | name = Florence Whyard | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1917|1|13}} | birth_place = London, Ontario | death_date = {{death date and age|2012|4|23|1917|1|13}} | death_place = Whitehorse, Yukon | office1 = Member of the Yukon Territorial Council | term_start1 = 1974 | term_end1 = 1978 | predecessor1 = Ken McKinnon | successor1 = Tony Penikett | constituency1 = Whitehorse West | office2 = Mayor of Whitehorse, Yukon | term_start2 = 1982 | term_end2 = 1984 | predecessor2 = Don Branigan | successor2 = Don Branigan | party = | occupation = }}
'''Florence "Flo" Whyard''' (January 13, 1917 – April 23, 2012) was a Canadian politician and former newspaper editor of the ''Whitehorse Star''.<ref name=cbcnews>{{cite news|title=Whitehorse's Flo Whyard dies|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/whitehorse-s-flo-whyard-dies-1.1242097|work=CBC News|date=2012-04-23|access-date=2012-05-01}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BgTwAAAAMAAJ&q=Florence+whyard+1917|title = Guide Parlementaire Canadien|year = 1978}}</ref>
In 1974, at the age of 57, she was elected to the Yukon Territorial Council, representing the Whitehorse West constituency. She served as a minister of the Yukon territorial cabinet from 1975 to 1978. She was elected the mayor of Whitehorse, the capital and largest city of Yukon. She served as mayor from 1982 to 1984, and shepherded the construction of the city's Macauley Lodge. Whyard died on April 23, 2012, in Whitehorse at the age of 95.<ref name=cbcnews/>
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