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1967

Other News From 1967

  • The Yukon Order of Pioneers Hall of Dawson City burns to the ground. The hall was built of logs in 1897 by the Northern Commercial Company.
  • Inspector Lou Pantry, RCMP, is transferred to Washington, D.C. Inspector Bob Wood of Ottawa to assume command.
  • The Yukon Trade Show is opened by the Deputy Minister of Northern Affairs. The show is held in the Yukon Vocational and Technical Training Centre.
  • Kelly Douglas Company acquires the food operations of Tourist Services.
  • Pioneer Store owner John Sewell dies at the Whitehorse General Hospital. He had operated a store on Front Street next to the Regina Hotel for 50 years.
  • Roy Minter and Jack Hoyt present Commissioner James Smith with a copy of the White Pass Travelogue movie depicting travel from Vancouver to Skagway, Whitehorse and Dawson City. The movie is a White Pass Company centennial project.
  • The Right Reverend Henry Marsh announces his retirement as Bishop of the Anglican Church.
  • Ross Kenway General Manager of New Imperial Mines, located seven miles south of Whitehorse, announces the end of testing of the open pit mine and mill. He says that full production will soon begin.
  • The Porter Creek Elementary School burns to the ground. The one hundred and forty students will attend schools in Takhini and Whitehorse.
  • Stuart Hodgson is named Commissioner of the Northwest Territories.
  • Mining Inspector A.D. Oliver is transferred to Ottawa after six years in the Yukon.
  • Trees are planted along Lewes Blvd. in Riverdale. It is the result of the donation by Al Kulan of $25, 000.
  • The Inn ballroom was the scene of a presentation by Scotty Munroe, President of the Whitehorse Lions Club to retiring president Bill Richardson.
  • Cars and trailers line up to be transported by White Pass Rail to Skagway to catch the Alaska Marine Ferry in order to bypass the "dusty, bumpy, Alaska Highway."
  • Brigadier Love, former Commander of the Northwest Highway system and now Director of the Arctic Institute, leads a group on a northern tour.
  • Ken McKinnon interviews Minister of Energy and Mines live on WHTV.
  • Prospector Art Jellinek, a Director of Pacific Giant Steel, is missing.
  • Fifty boats leave from the shipyard area of Whitehorse en route to Dawson City a part of the Yukon Centennial Celebrations. The centennial event is called the Yukon Flotilla.
  • Erik Nielsen attends the Progressive Conservative Party's Montmorency Conference to address social, economic and political issues.
  • There are seventeen candidates for election to the Territorial Government Council. They are: George Shaw, Rudy Couture, Bert Boyd, Ken Thompson, John Watt, Don Taylor, Bob McKinnon, Buzz Hudson, Bill Brewster, Norm Chamberlist, Ken McKinnon, J.O. Livesay, Pat Olsen, Harry Gordon-Cooper, Jean Gordon, John Dumas, and Laurent Cyr.
  • The election of new Yukon Territorial Councillors results in John Dumas, Norm Chamberlist, Jean Gordon, George Shaw, John Livesay, Don Taylor and Ken McKinnon sworn in by Commissioner Jim Smith.
  • Robert Stanfield replaces John Diefenbaker as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party.
  • Padraig O'Donoghue is been named Legal Advisor to the Yukon Government.
  • The Shriner's Club was presented with a charter.
  • A safe at Hougen's department store is attacked by thieves using a cutting torch. The robbers failed to crack the safe but stole $10,000 worth of merchandise.
  • Artist Ted Harrison arrives in the Yukon to teach at the Carcross School.
  • On Nov. 27th, the Hougen’s Santa train arrives with Santa and hundreds of children who parade down Main Street lead by the Air Cadets to Hougen's Department Store.
  • The Yukon tartan, designed by Janet Couture of Watson Lake in 1965, is first proposed as the official territorial tartan during the 1967 centennial celebrations. It was rejected by the Territorial Council because they were concerned about the legal implications of a private individual holding the copyright for the design. It was not approved until 1984.
  • Bert Lahr of "Wizard of Oz" fame and star of "Foxy" in Dawson City, died in New York at age 72.
  • City Dogcatcher, Bill Garth handed in his resignation to City Manager J.O. Hutton.