While there were many advance concerns expressed about conditions on the Yukon River this year -- everything from careful concern by community authorities to near panic by Northern Affairs -- the river has confounded predictions once again and has gone out peacefully.
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Hän Speakers Aim For Their Language to Survive by Dan Davidson A new book from the Yukon Native Language Centre is intended to help the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in First Nation keep its language alive. One of the special features of the annual Christmas Eve Service at St. Paul’s Anglican Church was the inclusion of a...
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by Timothy Sawa It was on a rainy September afternoon in Dawson City that this 74-year-old great-grandmother sat down to tell her topsy-turvy tale of victories and defeats. Today, more than nine years after Madeleine Gould’s unsuccessful application for membership to the male-only Yukon Order of Pioneers and following three failed appeals in three...
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In 1957 Dawson's prodigy, Canadian historian Pierre Berton, narrated a documentary film, The City of Gold, the viewing of which thrills and mesmerizes those who challenge the trail of '98.
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Placer mining has always been a precarious business. Boom and bust cycles are reported throughout history. Nineteen eighty-eight was one of the best for gold production in the Klondike since the turn of the century.
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Each morning for the past three weeks Dawson residents and visitors have awakened to the acute smell of burning forests. This summer has been the driest for a long time, and in Dawson area up to 20 fires were burning simultaneously.
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It was a weekend of excitement, tears, memories and good times as 450 former school students and teachers descended on Dawson City for the first ever Dawson Schools Reunion
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This is the first edition of the Klondike Sun Newspaper!
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