Canada’s position on the subject of Climate Change was protested in Dawson on Thursday by a group of half a dozen concerned citizens calling itself the Dawson City Climate Change Circle.
The irony of being bundled up in parkas against a breezy -23°C temperature in order to raise awareness of global warming was not lost...
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Digging has finished in the old Highways Compound off Fifth Avenue without finding any additional coffins or bodies of executed criminals. The operation closed down on
friday, November 26, 22 days after the first coffin was uncovered while excavating a foundation for the new secondary sewage treatment plant. Two more coffins were discovered in...
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Bridges are sensitive topics in
Dawson City, the Yukon River
Bridge debates of the early years
of this century can attest, but it
doesn’t do to forget that there is
already a bridge you have to cross
to get to Dawson. The Ogilvie
Bridge crosses the Klondike River,
and every piece of traffic and consumer
goods that comes to town
has to cross it.
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If there had been any remaining doubt about the season’s shift to winter, it ended between October 21 and 23 when puddles of frazil ice began to crowd the Yukon River. There hadn’t been any at all on Wednesday, but by the end of Friday the river was full of the stuff. Folks in...
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Dawson City and the Klondike are rich in history, which is why Parks Canada has such a large presence here. There are five sites under the umbrella of Klondike National Historic Sites.
The Dawson Historical Complex itself contains the downtown core buildings owned by Parks, including the Old Post Office, the Palace Grand Theatre, the...
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Charlotte Gray could not actually launch her latest book, Goldiggers: Striking it Rich in the Klondike, in Dawson City. The book won’t physically be in the stores until this coming Friday, so there were only a few copies in town: the ones she brought with her and the advance reading copy (or ARC) which...
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The students and staff at Robert Service School ran and walked a super Terry Fox run on September 10, raising $3823.00 for the cause of cancer research.
In past years the run has been carried out as the last event of the day, and both runners and officials have suffered under a plague of black...
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Awards were a big part of the final banquet at the recent Yukon Fire Chiefs Conference held in Dawson City on August 21.
The first item was a special recognition award given by the Fire Marshall’s office to Yuergen Willms from Marsh Lake for exemplary service in a rural community.
Following that there was a gift...
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Dawson could not have asked for a nicer run of weather than we got this year for our Discovery Days celebrations.
It might be said that things got a kick-start this year on August 9 with the arrival of the crew from “La Ruée Vers l’Or”, the French- Canadian reality TV show that has been...
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This year was the 10th Moosehide Gathering. We gathered together in the tradition of our ancestors before us to visit with friends, family, neighbours, and newcomers to sing, dance, celebrate and share the culture of the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in people.
The weather was beautiful and the company was hözó (good). Ronald Johnson lit the sacred fire...
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