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1973

Other News From 1973

  • Frank Fingland is appointed Assistant Yukon Commissioner succeeding Ron Hodgkinson.
  • Northern Affairs Minister Jean Chretien announces the building of the 33.6 miles of the Skagway Road meeting up with Alaska's building of 9.4 miles to complete the 110 miles from Whitehorse to Skagway.
  • Yukon Member of Parliament, Erik Nielsen, is fined for not registering for Medicare.
  • Yukon Territorial Councillor Norman Chamberlist charges a conspiracy. He claims "a syndicate" exists to control events in Whitehorse and the Yukon. His remarks named names and events during a two hour speech in the Territorial Council chambers, as reported in the Whitehorse Star on July 27th.
  • Norm Chamberlist and Hilda Watson survive a non-confidence motion brought on by fellow Territorial Councillor Ken McKinnon.
  • Armand Arsenault proposes an eleven story apartment building in Riverdale.
  • Frank Mooney is chairman of the Yukon Sourdough Rendezvous. Board members include Brenda Evans, June Cable, Jim Phelan, Don McArthur, Ray Gosse, Carol Keddy and Dave Gairns.
  • Oil companies drilling and conducting seismic work in northern Yukon include Amoco, Chevron Standard, Pacific Petroleum and Westcoast Petroleum. Whitehorse Star reporter Jim Beebe tours underground at Whitehorse Copper Mine.
  • Whitehorse City Council includes Mayor Bert Wybrew and Aldermen, Jim Howatt, Alder Hunter, Paul Lucier, Clive Boyd, Steve Henke, and John Watt. Controversy continues on the introduction of medicare in the Yukon. Don Taylor, M.L.A., refused to register and was subsequently charged.
  • The Yukon Consolidated Gold Corp. is taking a second look at its Klondike properties which have been closed since 1966 with a view to re-opening as a result of higher gold prices.
  • Ray Jackson, Chief of the Aishihik Indian Band, writes to Indian Affairs Minister Jean Chretien to get assurance the NCPC dam at Otter Falls would not negatively impact Indian lands in the area.
  • Gerald Bouey, Bank of Canada governor, leads the directors of the bank and of the Industrial Development Bank on a visit to Whitehorse.
  • British High Commissioner Lord Hayward and Lady Hayward with Jean Chretien and Mrs. Chretien, attend the Commissioners Ball in Dawson City in celebration of the Yukon's seventy-fifth year as a separate territory. Previously the Yukon was part of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba which then made up the Northwest Territories.
  • Indian Affairs minister Jean Chretien, in response to a question by Territorial Councillor Ken McKinnon said "no bridge for Dawson".
  • The Campbell Highway from Carmacks to Faro is being widened 8 to 10 feet.
  • Mayor Ivor Dent of Edmonton together with a delegation from the Edmonton Chamber of Commerce visit Whitehorse in August.
  • Yukon Territorial Councillors Hilda Watson and Clive Tanner move to dump Norman Chamberlist from the Executive Council - September Chamberlist terms Watson "a female scorpion" and quits the Executive Committee and is replaced by Clive Tanner.
  • The MacBride Museum is enlarged by a 72' x 28' extension.
  • A replacement bridge to Riverdale is under discussion between the city of Whitehorse and the Yukon Territorial Government. Plans are to build a 28' or a 40' bridge.
  • CMHC has approved home financing in Porter Creek.
  • The Council for Yukon Indians new constitution is confirmed.
  • Andy Morin, Manager of Yukon Electrical, is transferred to Edmonton. Gorden Wagner of Grande Prairie will take over.
  • Hougen's sponsored a spring fashion show in aid of the Braeburn Christian Summer Camp. 450 attended at the F.H. Collins School.