On June 4th seventeen of our
children graduated from Robert
Service School and began their
journey into adulthood. Graduation
in Dawson is when the community
becomes a family. The
graduates marched proudly onto
the stage, at the Palace Grand
Theatre, to the strains of AC/
DC’s” Back in Black”, followed
by an astounding rendition of
“Oh Canada” sung by Tracy Nordick,
whose voice sent shivers
through the...
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Organizers of the 25th Annual
Dawson City Gold Show
could hardly have been more
pleased with this year’s event.
Arctic Inland Resources owner
Bill Bowie, who first pitched
this concept back in 1986, was
fairly beaming as he surveyed
the 70 plus display booths that
lined the Art and Margaret
Fry Arena and the parking lot
across Fourth Avenue on Friday
and Saturday.
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Dawson’s Chamber of Commerce
and town council are up in arms
over recently announced decisions
to shorten both the season and
the hours at the border station on
Top of the World/Taylor Highway
route.
It had been announced that the
border station would open on May
15. Word has arrived here that this
has been moved to May 22, a delay
of seven days
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Daniel Janke’s “Finding Milton”, a tribute to the work of
peoples’ poet, Milton Acorn,
captured the Made In the Yukon
(MITY) award in the professional
category at the 2011 Dawson
City International Short Film
Festival.
The award (a handcrafted
statue which changes a bit from
year to year) comes with $1000
cash, a $1000 equipment rental
from the Northern Film and Video
Industry Association (NFVIA)
and a...
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With spring in the air in Dawson
City, excavation and foundation
work has begun on the
new 24,000 square foot (2600
square metres) replacement for
the aging Dawson City Health
Care Centre. Designed by Stantec/
Kobayashi Zedda Architects,
the building will be constructed
by Dowland Contracting Ltd. at
a cost of $22.2 million, according
to the Yukon Hospital Corporation.
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It’s not often that
Dawsonites hope for a cloudy
day in late March, but with
temperatures hovering
around -10° C, organizers of
the Percy DeWolfe Memorial
Mail Race were rather hoping
that the sun wouldn’t peek
through the overcast. If the
sun had been shining at 10
a.m. Thursday morning, it
might have been too warm
for the 14 dog teams about to
head out on the...
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Shawn Ryan says he's already been approached about a book on the leading role he and his wife have played in sparking the Yukon's modern day gold rush.
And a New York Times reporter who recently spent a few days with Ryan and Cathy Wood told the couple movie producers usually turn up not long...
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The rate that Dawsonites pay for
utilities is either rising or falling,
depending on how you look at it.
For some years now the annual
fee for water, sewer and waste
management has been pegged at
$1700, that being the total if you
were not a resident and didn’t pay
your bill on time each quarter. The
total bill included a $100 waste
management...
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Governor General David Johnson,
his wife Sharon, and his entourage,
including Yukon’s Commissioner
Doug Phillips, arrived
in Dawson on Thursday. They
were greeted by members of the
town and First Nation councils
in an informal gathering at the
Dänojà Zho Cultural Centre.
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In what might be the worst of
all possible worlds, February 2,
2011 begins with an earthquake
in the Tintina Trench. Registering
6.9 on the Richter Scale, the
quake’s epicenter is determined
to be 35 km east of Dawson City
and 11 km north of the Klondike
River Lodge.
The quake hits at 8:20 a.m. and
lasts for just 35 seconds, but in
that time...
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