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Will a proposed raven-shaped licence plate ever take flight?
When the Yukon government announced plans to remove the iconic gold panner from our licence plate in the late 1980s, public outrage put an end to that idea. The miner, who’d been riding the bumpers of Yukon vehicles since 1953, was instead given a multi-colour makeover. […]
Sometimes, there’s more to an apron than meets the eye
When I was a kid, the service station at the junction of the Alaska Highway and Tagish Road advertised free ice cream with every tank of gas. It’s called Jake’s Corner and we’d often pop in on the way to our lakeside cabin. Jake liked […]
Carcross cheers the return of the White Pass & Yukon Route
Something momentous happens when I drive into “downtown” Carcross on May 23, 2007: I stop at the train crossing and look carefully in both directions.
On this gorgeous afternoon, for the first time in almost a quarter-century, the White Pass & Yukon Route railroad will bring […]
Most Yukoners can appreciate their really big mountain—from a distance.
A proud Yukoner could rhyme off a long list of features that make the Yukon a spectacular place. Some of the most impressive natural features, like the aurora borealis, aren’t exactly unique to the territory, so one big-time example inevitably pops up when serious bragging rights […]
A Yukoner is more than just a birth certificate
T he scene is the Inuvik airport. It’s the second day of an epic effort to fly from Whitehorse to the tiny Gwich’in village of Old Crow. The Hawker Siddley sits idly on the tarmac, waiting out the ice fog that thwarted the previous day’s attempt to […]
A writer’s ode to the Yukon DNA
L ast July, I issued my very first travel ban. I informed my partner, whose patience for delusional antics is seemingly boundless, that she couldn’t make the trip from Whitehorse to her family’s cabin on Shuswap Lake near Kamloops. She was expecting in August, so the situation seemed […]
