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Yukon’s second largest community is the traditional home of the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in and immortalized in the Gold Rush

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1958

Robert Service Cabin

There's a little cabin, on Eighth Avenue in Dawson City, which was home to the world's most famous Yukoner. Though he never owned it, the cabin was his pride and joy, and inspired some of his most famous poems and…

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1958

Where would Robert Service call home?

2008 marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Robert W. Service, who passed away on September 11th , 1958. He spent just eight of his 84 years in the Yukon Territory, yet the stories he told made him one…

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1957

Klondike Kate

Klondike Kate was born Kathleen Eloisa Rockwell on October 4, 1876, at Junction City, Kansas.

Nicknamed Kitty, she grew up in Spokane, Washington, with her mother and stepfather, Judge Frank Bettis. Kate lived a luxurious childhood, with a governess and…

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1956

Duff Pattullo

There were many cheechakos in the Klondike who made the most of their brief time to develop a taste for fame and glory. They included a future Premier of British Columbia, who learned the art of hard-ball politics during his…

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1955

The Diary of Otto Steiner

There were many remarkable stories to come out of the Klondike gold rush. Some of the most interesting were first-hand accounts kept as diaries.

Otto Steiner set sail from Seattle, bound for the Klondike, in April of 1898, along with…

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1951

Phelps

I didn't really know the elderly gentleman who spent his days in the back room of the little Yukon Electrical clapboard office on Main Street, except that my school chum, Willard, enjoyed stopping there to say hello. To me, he…

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1951

Whitehorse Named Capital City

It was a day for celebration in Whitehorse back in March of 1951. But for the people of Dawson City, it was a black day not soon to be forgotten.

The news came by way of a telegram from Yukon…

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1901

The Grandest Home in the Yukon

Now an historic attraction, the Commissioner’s Residence in Dawson City is the Yukon’s equivalent of the White House, or twenty-four (24) Sussex Drive in Ottawa. It was originally built to house the most senior government official in the territory, the…

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