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1984 Hougen's history

Yukon Sourdough Rendezvous

Since the foundation of the Yukon Sourdough Rendezvous in 1962 Hougen's limited has sponsored a queen candidate. The delight of friends and family, Karen Hougen was Miss Hougens for 1984.

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1971 Historical Photos

Yukon Sourdough Rendezvous

The Yukon Sourdough Rendezvous of 1971 invited the Bon Homme de Neige from the Quebec Winter Carnival. He was a great hit. Seen here is the Bon Homme being greeted by Erik Nielsen, M.P.

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1974 Hougen's history

Yukon Sourdough Rendezvous

Hougen’s sponsored Philip Smith of Teslin (son of musher Andy Smith) for several years in the Yukon Sourdough Rendezvous. Seen here is Philip Smith with Marg and Rolf and his dog team, February of 1974.

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1975 Hougen's history

Hougen Store Yukon Sourdough Rendezvous

Every year the Hougen staff participated in the Yukon Sourdough Rendezvous by dressing in "turn of the century" clothing. In addition there were displays throughout the store, music, photographs and sponsorship of a queen candidate.

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1979 Historical Photos

Yukon Sourdough Rendezvous Gillian Campbell

Gillian Campbell, popular English Vaudeville style entertainer, attended the 1979 Yukon Sourdough Rendezvous. Here she greets Victoria Faulkner with Eli Porsild looking on.

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1938 Yukon Nuggets

Sourdough Reunions

Sourdough Reunions have been going on for a long time. I remember attending one in Reno, Nevada in the seventies and meeting Alan Fraser, who had worked on the river boats in the twenties and thirties. He was a great…

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2010

Robert Service Bust Unveiling

Originally published in Moccasin Telegraph, November 5, 2010 View article online: http://www.moctel.org/2010/MT323.html by Donna Clayson   Robert W. Service, 1874 - 1958   Known as “The Bard of the North”, poet Robert Service immortalized in novels and verse, the triumphs…

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1936 Yukon Nuggets

Legends

Robert Service always said all of the characters in his poems were fictional. Well, we know now that this is not quite true when it comes to Sam McGee. There was a Sam McGee in the Yukon at the turn…

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1849 Yukon Nuggets

Sourdough

Why is sourdough bread such a basic food in gold rush countries like the Klondike? Well, for one thing the stuff is like the energizer bunny. It lasts and lasts and lasts. I once took a Yukon River trip in…

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1898 Historical Photos

Sourdough Boats

​Most stampeders headed north from Seattle, San Francisco, Vancouver, and Victoria, as well as other west coast ports, without any idea of what they would be facing once they arrived at Dyea or Skagway.  There they soon discovered the brutal…

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2003 Historical Photos

International Sourdough Reunion

The Vancouver Yukoners Association welcomed delegates of the 71st Sourdough Reunion 2003 to Whitehorse on September 24 to 28 A Brief History of the International Sourdough Reunion, Inc. The great rush to the Arctic between 1898 and 1903 resulted in…

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1894 Yukon Nuggets

Yukon Order of Pioneers

It has always been an honour to become a member of the Yukon Order of Pioneers, an organization with quite a Yukon history. It was created on December 1st, 1894 at Forty Mile when a group of men got together…

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1997 Yukon Nuggets

The Sourdough Rendezvous

There hadn't been a mid-winter carnival since 1950. So when the Board of Trade met in October of 1961, Rolf Hougen, acting as chairman for the 30-member organization, convinced everyone it was high time to get growing Whitehorse community back…

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1949 Yukon Nuggets

Emilie Tremblay

Few women who took part in the Klondike Gold Rush stayed in the territory very long. Even fewer climbed the rugged Chilkoot Pass. The celebrated Martha Black climbed and stayed. So did Émilie Tremblay, and she was the first. She…

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1965 Yukon Nuggets

Babe Southwick Trophy

The Yukon Sourdough Rendezvous celebrations of the Sixties had a magical feel about them. The Yukon hadn’t seen winter carnival celebrations since the late forties, so it was like a breath of fresh spring air when Rendezvous rolled around. In…

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1984 Historical Photos

NorthwesTel Board of Directors

The NorthwesTel Board of Directors, a subsidiary of Canadian National Telecommunications kick it up at the Yukon Sourdough Rendezvous event.

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1982 Hougen's history

Canadian Chamber of Commerce

At the invitation of Rolf Hougen, the directors of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce met in Whitehorse during the Yukon Sourdough Rendezvous. 5 years of weather charts were provided to the 40 directors - in February the weather had been…

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1971 Hougen's history

Jack Webster visits CKRW

Controversial and influential Jack Webster of CKNW Vancouver visited the Yukon Sourdough Rendezvous. He provided great publicity for the Yukon as he interviewed several Yukoners "Live" from Whitehorse on his show. Seen here is Jack Webster on CKRW Talkback with…

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1993 Yukon Nuggets

Randy Hahn

It’s a long way from describing the Sourdough Rendezvous dog races on radio to doing the play-by-play broadcasts for the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League. However, it’s a journey Randy Hahn made with relative ease. He was…

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2000 Historical Photos

Robert Service’s Birthday

Every year the Yukon celebrates Robert Service’s birthday. Service emigrated to Canada from Scotland in 1894. He joined the Bank of Commerce in Victoria, B.C. and was transferred to Whitehorse and then to Dawson City. After 8 years in the…

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1945 Yukon Nuggets

Carnival Days in the ‘40s

The year was 1945. Six long years of war in Europe and the Pacific were coming to an end. Most of the military and civilian construction workers who had built the Alaska Highway and the Canol pipeline had left the…

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