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Community Husky Bus Seeks to Provide a Klondike Experience Calendar
Meetings IODE DAWSON CITY:
Meet first Wednesday of each month at ROYALhome of CANADIAN Janice Cliff LEGIONat 7:30 p.m.BRANCH For info #1 :call Janice Cliff, 993- 2908. Recess for summer July-October. Meet first Thursday PIONEEReach month WOMEN at Legion OF THE Hall YUKON (3rd and: King St.) at 7:30 p.m. Contact Myrna Butterworth, 993-5353. Meet third Thursday each month at 7:30 p.m. at Legion Hall. Contact Myrna Butterworth, 993-5353.CHAMBER Recess OF COMMERCE: for summer June, July and Aug. Regular meetings on the second Wednesday of each month at the Downtown Hotel. KIAC Coffeehouse Open Mic -
The first Coffee House of the year will be on Sept 10. After that it will be the first Saturday of each month. The money raised on Sept 10 will go to the RSS Story and Photos grade 11 and 12 YEC (Youth ExploringKIAC atCareers) 7pm field trip. The By Dan Davidson students go to universities and colleges in the Vancouver and alone has taken on the task of which include opportunities Victoria area. Hope to see you at . All performers running a shuttle service to for viewing the Northern Dawsonare welcome. city community library and from the airport during its Lights, and are combined with When Jesse Cooke talks about operating season, which is early accommodations and meals at Presentation by author Bob Bossin the Klondike Experience, he May to the end of September, the Aurora Inn. There may also wants it to be quite clear that the same as the Klondike be dog mushing opportunities. the award winning Husky Bus Highway season. It is also The Klondike Experience is PresentationTuesday, September by Berton 27 at 7:00House PM Writer-in-Residence Claire operation he started just four available for charters (including actually trying to add to that Caldwell years ago isn’t going away. trips to Alaska), or last May’s elusive winter visitor season You might even say it’s going Dawson Study Tour, during the that never quite seems to get everywhere. Yukon and the First World War beyond the Yukon Quest Week Monday,Town Council September 19 at 7:00 PM In fact, the business’ new Conference, as well as tours and the one-weekend Trek Over COUNCIL MEETINGS: brand name is really just an around Dawson, the Goldfields, the Top. attempt to capture all the the Midnight Dome and out to Cooke likes to partner There is no longer a fixed routine sched- things that Husky Bus has Tombstone Park. with existing operations, or ule of Council and Committee of the Whole (COW) meetings. Check the Post Office or the City of Dawson website for long taken on since the original Husky has made Solstice encourage other people to think range planning. smaller vans he began with first night celebrations on the Dome up ways that synergies can be Next Council Meetings are September 13 and 27. started rolling back and forth to much safer by offering a shuttle developed. Possible partners Next COW meetings are September 20 and October 11. Whitehorse in 2012. service, and has facilitated have included the Aurora Inn, “The Klondike Experience is the monthly Saturday night local mushers, the Dawson City meant to reflect all that we do,” coffee houses at the Tombstone Museum. Parks Canada and Air he said. “Husky Bus is going to interpretive centre. North. He’s happy to provide stay alive, as the transportation Then there are the bicycle customers for other people to link. When you think ‘bus rentals, which have resulted share. company’ you don’t think of in quite a few more visitors “I think the way to do it is to all the other things. You think peddling around town in the partner with people who are ‘transport’. We’re just trying summer. already doing things,” he says, to market ourselves online and The Tombstone excursions “and not have the big outdoor worldwide a little bit more, to go beyond just bus rides, with adventure company that has to reflect what we’ve actually been three different options of own all this gear and stuff. doing.” adventure tours this summer. “I think it’s good for What have they been doing? The biggest change is in the everybody. I just see us all Well, the bus side of things addition of winter, packages, benefitting from it.”
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(above) Bike Rentals are another part of the Klondike Experience. (below) Jesse Cooke at the wheel of a Husky Bus.
Belinda’s is closed from 2pm - 5pm (800) 544-0970 | westmarkhotels.com THE KLONDIKE SUN WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2016 P3 STACKED Tatsuya Nakatani: Cymbals and Gongs Transformed News and Happenings from the Dawson City Community Library
The Library is excited to be hosting two author presentations in September. Both presentations are free and open to everyone, plus light refreshments will be served. On Monday 19 September at 7 p.m. current Berton House Writer-in-Residence and noted poet, Claire Caldwell, will give a reading. Claire has been here since July, and has been working on her second full-length poetry manuscript (when not taking in the wilderness or helping to foster the local literary scene). Her new book will pick up on themes of the natural world that she explored in her debut collection, Invasive Species. The following week, on Tuesday 27 September at 7 p.m. author and performer Bob Bossin will read from his prizewinning book Davy the Punk, depicting his father’s life in Toronto’s gambling underworld of the 1930s and 40s. Photo: (c) Makoto Takeuchi, www.makoshphoto.com Used with permission.
* * * * Story by Meg Walker It’s that time of year when we reap the harvest and melodious, nor was meant to prepare for the winter months. To help Dawsonites with percussionist in various bands, When sound artist Tatsuya be; the sustained notes acted he realized he played the same their preparations, the Library has prepared a special Nakatani introduced his show as a cushion for the complex intro and outro rhythm every last Friday night in the KIAC experimental sounds to spark, display of useful how-to books. Subjects include juicing, time on the highexactly hat and the on same! the Ballroom, he presented the idea jump, scrape. Frenetic, then foraging, berry picking, cellaring, home sausage and Soride I threw cymbal. them away from my that listening happens with all dancing. cheese making, preserving, and much more. Whether set.“And Suddenly, I mean I was free.” the senses and the whole body. Listeners later said it was like you’re gathering produce from your garden, venturing Clad in loose black clothes listening to an ocean storm. On the road for more than 200 out to pick berries, or planning to hunt some wild game, with a waist-length ponytail Some sounds were abrasive, but days in an average year, Nakatani swaying down his back, it was clear the whole time that we’re sure to have a book that will help you stock your has been on the road since June Nakatani joked that while Nakatani would create a shape larder. in his Mercedez-Benz Sprinter seeing “an Asian guy with that would carry the sound (converted into an RV with gongs” might look like back to calm. In fact, several * * * * multiple slots for the instruments). traditional music would ensue, people reported they were As you read this he’s playing in Do you have a PIN set up for your library account? That he was going to create sound lulled almost to sleep. Alaska. Turns out the freedom art for us. Listening happens The show had an unfiltered plus your library card number will allow you to conduct hinges on immense commitment with your skin, with your human response at the transactions online using the Yukon Public Libraries and work, as the artist is also his hair, he explained, gesturing end. Nakatani tapped the website. Not only can you reserve and renew books, own booking manager. gracefully. gongs, slowing to a close, the Dawson City appeared on but you can download eBooks and audio books as well. The Japanese-American near-silence tangible with Nakatani’s radar after a former Come talk to a librarian to get set up. artist’s motion indicated his reverberations. A toddler, KIAC artist-in-resident, Donna instrument arrangement: breastfeeding, softly started Akrey, arranged a gig for him * * * * three large gongs and three to hiccup. Curiously, the gentle in Hamilton, Ontario. She was small drums, an array of loose tones complemented each other. For more information about any of these items impressed by the experience: “It cymbals and singing bowls, and A free-jazz and improv will rearrange your cells!” please contact the Library at 993-5571 two massive soft mallets. background clearly shapes She thought Dawson might or [email protected] Chairs formed a relaxed Nakatani’s sound art. The appreciate Nakatani work. A chain half-circle around the “stage,” music isn’t scored. “I know I of ensuing emails connected him running the length of the room. start with the gong, and I end with Sarty, who took the risk and “Tatsuya walked around the with the gong, but the rest is booked sound art for KIAC. room snapping his fingers to improvised.” Mid-day Friday, before sound PUBLIC NOTICE find the best spot for sound,” Much of his style comes from check, Nakatani and I chatted in said Matt Sarty, KIAC’s Events playing with experimental the sunshine on the ODD Gallery Coordinator. The setup allowed musicians in New York City Pursuant to Section 7(b) of the Subdivision Regulations stairs. maximum acoustic exposure for in the late 1990s, he said at made pursuant to the Subdivision Act, the Yukon In all that driving, Nakatani the listeners. his artist’s talk the next day. government gives notice of the following subdivision says, he keeps pulling in to the Sound saturation began Born and raised in Kobe, Japan, application: same gas stations, same corner with the first note: a gentle Nakatani moved to the United stores, whenever he’s on a File No. 2020-60-RA36: Keith Hepner & Sonia Stange mallet strike on the largest States at short notice when a familiar road. “I have no choice, it have made application to subdivide a home site gong. At 46” wide it offered a friend told him about a vacant just happens!” severance of agriculture Lot 1001, Quad 106 D/3, low, warm note. Then the next apartment. As he got to know Comparing himself to a Plan 95-81, Km 22 Hanson McQuesten Lake Road, YT gong: 42” and a little brighter. musicians, he ended up in New migrating bird, he talked about Then Nakatani took up one York, playing everywhere (a the human need to keep moving Comments on this application will be accepted until of his hand-made bows. He partial list of collaborators as a way to keep ideas growing, September 26, 2016. For further information or to began drawing it across the is on his website, www. as a way to access spirituality. comment on this application please contact the Land two gongs, one at a time, in hhproduction.org). Whatever it is that sustains Planning Branch at 667-8877 or call toll-free slow, continuous motions that “For a few years I played ten this international recording 1-800-661-0408 ext. 8877. created layers of vibration. hours a day,” he says. “Seven and performing artist, I hope Soon the room itself was hours a day with bands in the Nakatani’s migration pattern now vibrating. Within these waves, subway, then three hours at a includes Dawson City, so we can Nakatani pushed and pulled show at night.” enter his expansive, ear-opening cymbals across drums, bows Nakatani described a music more than once. across singing bowls, breath pivotal moment to becoming through cracked cymbal a solo performer. Listening against drumskin. It wasn’t to recordings of himself as P4 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2016 THE KLONDIKE SUN Uffish Thoughts: This demolition is a wasted opportunity By Dan Davidson
Service School. It was trundled the superannuated Dawson accept the argument that a roof condemned former territorial down Fifth Avenue, turned Community Health Centre (where structure without a sufficient government liquor store and At the risk of repeating myself, edgewise, and refurbished as the the new McDonald Lodge now slope is a recipe for problems office building at the corner of let me say once again that the hotel annex that has what must sits) and trucked their bits and somewhere down the line. Queen Street and Third Avenue. recently announced release of be the widest hotel hallways in pieces out to the Quigley Landfill, It is telling that Loxam went It was magically converted into a tender to demolish the former the territory. shortening its lifespan by a on to say “Renovating the the Yukon School of Visual Arts, McDonald Lodge in Dawson City At the north end of the lane considerable amount. building to be something other the same institution that is now is an example of short-sighted behind my home, a formerly The tender announcement, than a continuing care facility stalled in its development and thinking and certainly a wasted abandoned two-storey house as reported in the Yukon News, was not specifically looked at growth from a one year program opportunity. is being restored to use, having indicated that costs were a major but would certainly cost more to a two year diploma granting The number of repurposed been relocated there from factor. $2 million dollars would than building a new building on college largely because there buildings in Dawson City is quite Eighth Avenue last year. have been needed to bring the that site.” is no housing available for its large. My own home, transported The point of all this – and I building up to code and another They were asked to look at students. here from Clinton Creek after haven’t given you the two best $6 million to “upgrade it to alternative uses, and there has But that story doesn’t end that mine closed, is but a minor examples yet - is that there’s modern care standards.” never been any suggestion that there, because the YSOVA example, one of half a dozen (at no need to waste an existing This appears to be a reference simply fixing the old seniors’ building became the anchor to least) buildings transported here building here once it has to a suggestion that someone lodge as a continuing care attach the new Yukon College rather than being demolished. outlived its original use. might have thought keeping the facility would be acceptable. Campus building to, ending Others were brought to town The best use for the old building as an extended care Apparently we are supposed decades of this important from the Yukon Consolidated McDonald Lodge would have annex might have been a good to believe the argument given institution floating from site Gold Corp. compound in Bear been to convert it to a residence idea. Despite that statement by to our mayor and council that, to site (including the second Creek rather than be left to building that could have housed spokesperson Erin Loxam, this as Mayor Potoroka is quoted floor of the building that is now decay. the students from the Yukon is a not an idea that was floated saying, “…a number of people get YSOVA) around the town. Our former fire hall moved School of Visual Arts during at any of the public meetings that it might have just been too Now, it is important for you to become what passes for a their academic year, and perhaps regarding the new building that I difficult to renovate.” to know that the contractor drug store in town. The current have been available for shorter attended and reported on. Local I mentioned earlier that there whose planning restored both firehall/city hall was relocated term summer rentals. arguments for more capacity told were two great examples of of those damaged buildings to clear across town when it turned Those who tried to sell the government to put a second building restoration I hadn’t vibrant and useful health is Greg out that its original location this idea to the territorial floor on the planned building, or given you yet. Here they are. Hakonson, the same person who on Fifth Avenue was no longer government met with a to construct it in such a way that The first is the Oddfellows has steadily maintained that tenable. mental stone wall and the a second floor could be added Hall, which sat derelict for years the old McDonald Lodge was The Robert Service Wing on same attitude that demolished later. until it was transformed into the fixable and usable. It would not the Westmark Hotel is the major both the government owned Neither of those things KIAC (Klondike Institute of Art be without cost, but since the portion of the original Robert Korbo Apartment building and happened of course, nor did they and Culture) Building, a bustling government has consistently and vital part of Dawson’s shown no signs of coming up artistic development and a jewel with any other solution to the at the corner of Second Avenue student residency problem, it is a and Princess Street. proposal that ought to have been The second example is the taken seriously.
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right from the get go, Breaker would attract the attention of if at some point in the journey book that I first came across made the decision to be my best Laski, the neighbour’s German either of the other two tried to in 1981. The title is, “On Death buddy. Prior to Becca moving in, Shepard. Laski was focused even get close to the passenger and Dying” by Elizabeth Kübler- when there were just the three on grabbing my walking stick, seat, Breaker would growl and Ross. The main premise of amigos, it was always Breaker and when that happened, sneer at them, just to let them the book is that when a loss who would try to get as close to Breaker would be the one to know that he would be sitting is suffered, a person has to go me as possible, and if either Roxy butt in immediately. Whether there for the entirety of the trip, through five stages of grief, or Skidder tried to change that he was trying to protect me, thank you very much. Of the those being, denial, anger, arrangement, Breaker would or if he just didn’t like Laski, three, Skidder is the largest, but bargaining, depression, and somehow figure out how to worm I’m not sure. But it wouldn’t be even he would be intimidated finally acceptance. Try as we his way through the other two, so too long before, Laski would by Breaker’s performance, and may, to short circuit these that he could be right next to me. turn tail and head back home, before long, both he and Roxy stages of grief, it remains key As I mentioned a moment ago, and the four of us were left would settle back down in the to helping the individual at he was smart. When I had the to continue our wanderings back of the van, resigned to some future point, move on opportunity to house-sit back in around in the snow. the fact that for this journey at with their lives. The wisdom 2010, I can remember Breaker I’ve lost track of the number least, Breaker would keep the contained in this book has Letter from Paul Marcotte the “jail breaker” as I came to of nights that the boneheads front seat. This would happen been very beneficial over the think of him for a while. My and I would climb up to one of on every trip, and I would get a years. Grief from loss is a very friends had a large part of their our favourite viewing spots chuckle out of it each and every personal thing, and it’s different property adjacent to the road, amongst the tailings piles, sit time. for everyone. I can only imagine Breaker died last fenced off. It was a great place to down in the snow, and just And finally, one more Breaker what my friends are going week. Breaker was one of put the three amigos, so that they be. Up above, a star studded story to round things out, a through, as a result of losing my bonehead buddies in could be outside but still on the sky, the best I’ve ever seen, and story that I am not sure that Breaker and Becca, but maybe the Yukon. I don’t like this property. But the system never on some evenings, the Aurora my friends would like to know in time, after they have worked news. This news makes me worked quite as well as it should Borealis would be on display, about, but here it is. Normally, through the depression phase, sad. But I accept this news. have, because somehow, Breaker with colours and sounds the boneheads sleep in the the acceptance phase will arrive, A couple of days ago, my would find a way to get out. This that were literally out of this kitchen. The master bedroom and thoughts of Breaker, that at friends in the Yukon sent me a escape technique seemed to be world. We were content to sit is next to the kitchen. I tended the moment may bring a tear, short email to inform me about above the pay grade of Skidder there, and hang out for maybe to leave the door slightly will turn to thoughts of Breaker Breaker. I’m quite sure that and Roxy, but not Breaker. After an hour or so before heading ajar. All the boneheads would that bring a smile and a laugh. I they are much sadder than I two or three jail breaks, I back home. Of the three be settled down for the night surePaul, hope formerly so. employed at am. Breaker was a wonderful conceded that Breaker was boneheads, Breaker would on their respective cushions, the Dawson City General Store, companion, and like most Border smarter than I was, and I gave up be the one sitting closest to and I would head to bed. By and for a time as the local dog collies he was as smart as a on the idea of trying to keep him me. Always. morning, every single one of catcher (where he fell in love with whip. Breaker shared his home in that enclosure. He was trying to One more memory from them would be in the bedroom Snowball the dog and from that in Bear Creek with two of his tell me something, that being, “I’m 2010. Terry had provided me with me, and it would be Breaker point on became a dog lover), now siblings, Skidder and Roxy, a smarter than you, and I’d rather be with his work van to drive to on the bed, with the other three wanders the world doing pet/ furball named Trouble, and his with you than separated from you, town and back, and I would (this included Becca at the time) house sitting. He writes a blog two, two legged companions, even though you’re not as smart as usually load up Breaker, curled up in various locations four times a month called "The Janice and Terry. On occasion, I am.” Maybe he was thinking that Skidder and Roxy so that they on the floor. While I was asleep, Thoughtful Wanderer" which another sibling, named Deuce if he could just spend enough time could come along for the ride. I there was a kitchen conspiracy can be found at wherespaulnow. would come for a visit for a day with the stupid human, that some would open the door to the rear that resulted in a mass migration blogspot.com or two, and when I was up there of his intelligence would finally section of the van for them, and to the bedroom. I made sure to He's lived all over the world but this past January to house-sit, rub off on me. I’m not sure if he no matter which one initially do a complete vacuum prior to considers Dawson the closest he's his mother Becca had moved was successful. got to the passenger seat first, my friends returning home, in ever come to calling a place home. in full time. My friends also The three amigos and I would it would eventually be Breaker order to destroy any of the hairy mentioned in their email that spend many hours walking around that somehow managed to Border collie evidence. Becca died back in March, so on the frozen tailings ponds that commandeer the seat. And, I have recently re-read a now there is just Skidder and are situated immediately behind Roxy remaining, and of course the property. Occasionally I PUBLIC NOTICE Trouble the furball. would find an old stick to use as I love all of these boneheads, a walking aid. With the four of Proposed Amendment to but for whatever reason, us roaming around out there, we West Dawson and Sunnydale Local Area Plan
Yukon government has received an application to amend the West Dawson and Sunnydale Local Area Plan as follows: Re-designate Lot 1015 (Rem), Quad 116 B/3, Plan 73502 LTO, consisting of approximately 38 ha, from Agriculture (AG) to Proposed Residential (PR). The purpose of the proposed amendment is to facilitate further residential subdivision of the parent lot by allowing for lot sizes less than the 3 hectare minimum specified under the Agricultural (AG) designation of the local area plan. Under the local area plan, proposals to re-designate private land triggers a plan review process, which includes public notification and a requirement for a public meeting. The public meeting will be held from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm on September 7, 2016 at the Yukon Order of Pioneers Lodge in Dawson City. The applicant will be available to answer questions on the proposed amendment. Written comments on the proposed amendment will be accepted until September 30, 2016. Comments can be mailed to: Land Planning branch K320LP, Department of Energy Mines and Resources, Box 2703, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 2C6, fax 867-393-6340, or by email to [email protected]. For more information on this amendment, please contact Roy Neilson, land use planner at 667-3531 or toll free 1-800-661-0408 ext. 3531. P6 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2016 THE KLONDIKE SUN Atwood & ‘The Klondike Look’
Story by Angharad Wenz
the printed ad – a likely cheaper Industrial Exhibition. By the summer of 1898, alternative for Klondike entre- Atwood’s artistry was clearly Dawson was an over-saturated preneurs. This shift is echoed in appreciated locally, and he market. Rival businesses, of- Atwood’s own promotion (see found camaraderie amongst the fering similar services and below), which highlights his abil- Klondike’s creative circle. Robert supplies, vied for the same ity to make "the home beauti- Service was a close friend, and Klondike customers. One of the ful". Although signs remained had Atwood illustrate some of best ways to draw commerce a noted speciality, it seems that his published work. FromBallads an of away from competitors – as it Atwood’s enterprise had adapt- ainscription Cheechako written by Service remains today - was through ed to the increasing "sophistica- to Atwood in a copy of eye-catching advertising. Signs tion" of a settled Dawson. , we also know that trimmed the fronts and roofs of Despite this change, it seems both were members of the mys- tents, cabins and multi-storey that Atwood’s popularity in terious “Nighthawk Club” during buildings. Canvas banners the theatrical arts continued their time here. were stretched across streets unabated. Although certainly Frederick Atwood would and draped between buildings. the number of theatres within remain in Dawson until 1912, Placards could be found on Dawson declined after the when he relocated with his fam- every corner, and even on the turn of the century, the town’s ily to Seattle. There he contin- backs of donkeys roaming the enthusiasm for staged entertain- ued a career in entertainment, streets. Bold, hand-painted fonts ment remained. The Auditorium, working for the Hippodrome embossed the entire streetscape Orpheum and Opera House held Amusement Company. He did not of Dawson, becoming an integral multiple performances in which forget his Klondike experience part of the boomtown’s aesthet- Atwood often assisted – as set and became a prominent mem- ic. Unsurprisingly, a number of decorator, artistic director and, ber of the Sourdough Stampede commercial artists prospered in occasionally, as performer. His Association – a group of former the growing industry of sign- passion for theatre is evident in AlaskaAlaskan Yukon and Yukon Gold Book sourdoughs. painting, including one Freder- his personal collection of pro- As editor of the association’s ick Atwood. grams, playbills and posters gift- , Atwood A talented artist who had ed to the Museum by his great contributed a couple of his studied fresco and decorative granddaughter. As "Arctic Chief" own poems and compiled a arts, Frederick Nelson Atwood of the Arctic Brotherhood, he number of local histories. He began his career refurbishing undoubtedly helped to organize remained an ardent promoter homes on the west coast. One and participated in many events of the Klondike and its golden of his first jobs was decorating held at the AB Hall – today past, perpetuating an image and the mansion of Ezra Meeker - Diamond Tooth Gertie’s. Atwood ideal that continues to inspire the "Hop-King of the World", also volunteered for a range of popular consciousness today. in 1890. Coincidentally, both other community events, includ- On the streets of Dawson and in Atwood and Meeker would fol- ing costuming the attendees the minds of thousands, Atwood low the stampede northward of local balls and coordinating helped to craft both literally and - the former arriving in the the entertainment committee figuratively a distinct Klondike Klondike by 1898. Both had little for the Yukon Horticultural and aesthetic. success mining and would move on to other ventures, selling their artistic skill and evaporat- ed vegetables respectively. Atwood established a part- nership with photographer, George Cantwell, setting up shop on Second Avenue. Although predominantly sign painters, the duo’s services also included designing and painting theatre sets, hanging wallpaper and other interior decorating work, photography and taxidermy. The wallpaper business, in particu- lar, proved lucrative in a town where lumber was in short sup- ply. A popular covering for cabin walls and ceilings, wallpaper on canvas was also a common substitute for interior partitions. These "telephone walls" not only saved money, but were also a great source of local gossip! Whether the business part- ners continued to share a store- front is uncertain, for as early as 1901 both had begun advertis- ing separately in local papers and programs as Cantwell, "the Clockwise from top left: (1) An ad for Atwood’s home decorating business, "Signs a photographer", and Atwood, "the Specialty." (2) Fredrick M. Atwood as Admiral Porter - in HMS Pinafore by the Dawson decorator". Perhaps as Dawson’s Yukon Operatic Society.(3) A hand-painted Yukon Transfer Corp banner from the newspaper industry grew, the Dawson City Museum’s collection (too long to unroll in storage!) was typical of the medium for marketing busi- banners stretching across Dawson’s congested streets. ness shifted. Sign painting may indeed have lost its primacy to THE KLONDIKE SUN WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2016 P7 Klondike Sun donates film photo archive to Inspired Living Dawson City museum Month of September News
Hi Klondike,
I've said it, you've heard it...the sky's the limit...I have ex- perienced another sphere. An emotivesphere - the point where the outermost layer of the earth's atmosphere and the innermost emotion of gratitude meet. Yes, it was out of this world!
Volunteering with Special Olympics Yukon in July opened my eyes and widened my vision. I saw determination. I witnessed fear. I shouted support at the top of my lungs and I whispered, “you are amazing” to every athlete. We "Lethigh mefived win, and but hugged! if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt."
Special Olympic oath
This oath is my oath. From left, Kathy Jones Gates, Alex Somerville and Dan Davidson, show the pictures the Dawson Museum received earlier this week. I took this promise with me to the 2016 Canada 55+ Story and Photos Games in Ontario where I participated as a member of by Michael Gates the Yukon Lawn Bowling Team, pictured here practicing Yukon News Friday August 12, and working in the darkroom for life in the community for 10 with teammate Bonnie. 2016 hours producing the half-tone years. Used with the author’s permis- printsSun required for the monthly, Dawson City has never been I will also take my determination, my fear and my cour- sion then later, bi-weekly editions of without a newspaper. During the age. (Mine is a big suitcase.) We took home silver in our the . early years when the gold rush category-- woo hoo! Alex Somerville, director of Dawsontown had Daily a large News, population, Yukon as the Dawson Museum said the Worldmany as three Yukonnewspapers Sun (the Special Olympics is dedicated to changing lives through Dawson City’s museum collection represents history that the sport. I know they changed mine. received a slice of community is not yet viewed as history, but and the ) were "Let me play. I believe in me." life Aug. 7, when it acceptedKlondike Suna will come to be seen as a graphic publishing Dawson simultaneously. News That donation of nearly 100,000 pho- record of community life in 40 or was reduced to one after 1909. ~Mo Oath tographs from the 50 years. The finally closed Mo's Message newspaper. Kathy Jones-Gates, who co- its doors in 1954, after Yukon’s The photographs represent founded and edited the news- capital moved to Whitehorse, but Limitless Skies everything that was chronicled paper with Davidson in the an active group of women called by the community newspaper early days, said the photographs “The Nutty Club,” continued to from its founding in 1989, until it capture practically every event Klondikeproduce aKorner bi-weekly mimeo- converted to digital photography in Dawson City for more than a graphed newsletter called the around 2000. decade. She said it was crucial for , until Davidson, “I went digital in 1999,” said this record to remain in Dawson Jones-Gates and others realized Dan Davidson, the paper’s editor City, where it was most relevant. that Klondike it was possible Sun to produce a and co-founder. “It didn’t take Commissioner’s balls, spring regular newspaper again. In 1989 long to realize that we could save break-up, music festivals, even the was born and six to seven hours on a produc- births and children’s birthdays continues to document events tion weekend by going digital.” were among the events captured in Dawson City nearly 30 years Digitization marked the end by the team of volunteers who later. of the era of mixing chemicals worked to document everyday Request for Proposals
The Klondike Visitors Association (KVA) is seeking proposals from qualified production companies to create and present Klondike Gold Northern Howl Rush themed shows at Diamond The Volcano Collective (Karen Kazmer & Deborah Koenker) Tooth Gerties Gambling Hall in Audio/photo installation about Dawson City dogs. Dawson City, Yukon, under seasonal contract beginning May 2017. The Wright brothers shared a dream – to build a flying Interested parties are strongly machine. The world watched and reported and celebrated migratory (patterns) encouraged to visit Dawson City and their victories…even when skeptics doubted it could be Kevin Yates & Robert Yates become familiar with the unique done. Documentation of videos in Ruby's Place Aug 11-14. northern community and venue. RFP documents and additional Orville and Wilbur Wright recorded over 1,000 glider information can be obtained by Closing Sept 17! contacting KVA office, by phone flights and 7 years of testing before their 12-second flight (867) 993-5575 or by email to of glory made headlines. Klondike Institute of Art & Culture [email protected]. 2nd & Princess Ave, Dawson City Had the Wright brothers listened to the naysayers, some www.kiac.ca The deadline for submission of reporting, “1 to 10 million years before a working air- proposals is October 14, 2016. plane could be built”, their dreams may have crashed.
But the Wright brothers didn’t give up. They showed con- viction. They took chances and they had nerve.
What do the Wright brothers, Special Olympics and Team WeYukon measure have in the common? sky and our dreams as limitless. P8 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2016 THE KLONDIKE SUN
2016 YOOP Horticultural Exhibition Results
Vegetables Helen Dewell Doug Fraser Louise Piche Tomatoes, Cherry First Place: Louise Piche Helen Dewell Second Place: Lou Tyacke Beans, Wax Green Or Yellow, 6 First Place: : Lou Tyacke Third Place Tie: Second Place: Sylvie Gammie Third Place Louise Piche Otto & Connie Muhlbach Andrea Magee Tomatoes, Other First Place: Penrose Family Beets Any Kind, 4 First Place: Penrose Family Second Place : Second Place: Third Place:Penrose Family Third Place:Andrea Magee Lou Tyacke Penrose Family Turnips, Any Colour, 3 First Place: Louise Piche Broccoli, 1 Head First Place: Second Place: Second Place: Third Place:Andrea Reynolds Margie Baikie Andrea Magee Louise Piche Cauliflower First Place: Trae Taylor Cabbage, 1 Head First Place: Otto & Connie Muhlbach Second Place: Second Place: Third Place:Louise Piche Third Place Beez: Duncan Louise Piche Louise Piche Kohlrabi First Place: Otto & Connie Muhlbach Carrots, Any Variety First Place: Dewell Family Second Place: Second Place: Third Place Jon: Lenart Third Place:Louise Piche Louise Piche Doug Fraser Exotic First Place: Penrose Family Celery, 1 Bunch First Place: Rhonda & Glynnie Second PlaceDoug Tie: Fraser Second Place: Third Place:Sylvie Gammie Third Place:Faren Kienzler Andrea Reynolds Valerie Dube Cucumber, 2 First Place: Louise Piche Giant First Place:Otto & Connie Muhlbach Second Place: Second Place: Andrea Reynolds Third Place:Nick Rear Third Place Tie: Philip Johnson Rhonda & Glynnie Lettuce, Any Variety First Place: Louise Piche Second Place:Louise Piche Kale First Place: Louise Piche Maria Ledergerbe Second Place: Onions, Any Kind, 4 First Place: Louise Piche Third Place: Second Place: r Fruits, Plants, Flowers Third Place:Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Farm School Maria Ledergerber Louise Piche Peas, Any Variety, 6 Pods First Place: Jaden Ezzard Louise Piche Second Place: Strange But True First Place: Lou Tyacke Third Place: Louise Piche (Sandi Coleman) Second Place: Sylvie Gammie Third Place:Jon Lenart Peppers, Any Kind, 3 First Place: Megan Waterman Sebastian Second Place: Christine Blanchard Raspberries, Several First Place: Third Place: Second Place: Sebastian (Special Mention:Helen Dewell ) Louise Piche Louise Piche Display Of Assorted Berries First Place: Silas Laliberte Potatoes, White, 4 First Place: Rhonda & Glynnie Second Place: Second Place: Ezra Penrose Third Place Jon: Lenart Third Place Tie: Doug Fraser Rhonda & Glynnie Rhubarb, 6 Stalks First Place: Louise Piche Second Place:Marg Vandusen Potatoes, Any Colour, 4 First Place: Doug Fraser Helen Dewell Second Place: Potted Plants, Any Variety First Place: Rhonda & Glynnie Third Place: Second Place: Andrea Magee Third Place: Rhonda & Glynnie Squash/Zucchini, Any Kind, 1 First Place: Silas Laliberte Second Place: Third Place: THE KLONDIKE SUN WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2016 P9
Horticultural Exhibition Results (Continued) 2016 was a bountiful year for local gardeners Story and Photos By Tarie Castellarin : Dawn Wilson Louise Piche Bouquet Of Flowers First Place Rian Lougheed-Smith Second Place: We guess the warm, rainy season was nicer to plants than people! There were over 55 par- Third Place:Riley Brennan ticipants exhibiting a variety of produce. Thank you to all our enthusiastic participants, helpful Sophia & Eva Morgan volunteers,»» and the many organizations that contribute their support make the success of this Bouquet Of Wildflowers First Place: Ezra Penrose event possible: Second Place: »» Lodge #1 YOOP for their sponsorship (banners, ribbons, advertising) Third Place:Rhonda & Glynnie »» Louise Piche KIAC for the loan of the tent Sweet Peas First Place: »» The Dawson City Museum for the historical gardening photo Second Place:Brandi Willman »displays» and pictures Helen Dewell »» Volunteers for set up and take down of tents & tables Pansies First Place: »» The judges…Lenore Calnan, Sharon Edmunds, Second Place: Myrna Butterworth, Muffy MacDonald, Maria Ledergerber »» Palma Berger, Minnie Beets, Vicki Roberts, Shirley Hill, Dave Dunning (San Antonio, Doug Fraser »Texas),» Rian Lougheed-Smith, Diana McReady, Gigi Bigras Other First Place: Sara Baker »» The enthusiasm & support from the gang at the VIC Second Place: KPMA for their tablecloths Third Place: Canned Goods & Preserves KVA for publishing the program and advertising the event
Sebastian Thank you to the market gardeners; Karen Digby & Grant Dowdell, Jack & Lucy Vogt, and Otto Marg Vandusen & Connie Muhlbach for donating the high quality produce for the silent auction. Schmidt Min- Chutney/Cordial First Place: Claus Vogel ing was the highest bidder. Money raised from the silent auction was donated to the Dawson Second Place: Food Bank, along with a donation from the Gammie family. It was great to have the Tr’ondëk Third Place: Hwëch’in Farm School students participate in this year’s event. Marg Vandusen The Grand Aggregate Winners was calculated by a count of successful entries and first place Marg Vandusen ribbons in a combination of categories. The 2016 Grand Aggregate winners are Louise Piche Jams & Jellies First Place: Ann Chapman (First Place), Marg VanDusen (Second Place) and The Penrose Family (Third Place)…congratu- Second Place: lations and thanks for your enthusiasm! Third Place: Doug Fraser It was a banner year for children’s entries. A shout out to the school’s spring seed planting Louise Piche Fruit & Veggies First Place: Claus Vogel activity, because many of the children took their plants home and nurtured them over the sum- Second Place: mer! Third Place:Penrose Family The “Sandi Coleman Strange but True” category was created following a friendly CBC Radio Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Farm School interview. The entries in this category proved to be a delight to all our visitors. Pickled, Variety First Place: Doug Fraser The Horticultural Exhibition has been a staple of the Klondike Valley since 1903 and possibly Second Place: earlier. We have a historical article from 1904 describing the four-day event. Some interesting Third Place:Penrose Family categories included: painting on china, furs & pelts, oil paintings, wood carvings, wildflowers, Marg Vandusen baking, and grains & grasses. We are proud to continue this fine tradition and maintain a his- Best Collection First Place: Claus Vogel torical connection to our colorful past. Everyone is inspired and encouraged by what they see at Second Place: the exhibition and we look forward to what 2017 will bring. Home ThirdCooking Place: *Judged On Taste & Appearance Helen Dewell & Tarie Castellarin Thank you! Karen Gabryelczyk * We had huge gusts of winds and ribbons flew all over the place…if you did not get a ribbon Naomi Gladish please contact us because we want you to have your bragging rights! Bread, White, 1 Loaf First Place: Second Place:Maria Ledergerber
Bread, Brown, 1 Loaf First Place: Marg Vandusen
Buns/Biscuits First Place: Penrose Family
Muffins, Any Variety First Place: Ezra Penrose Sara Baker Cake, Any Variety First Place: Handicrafts Second& Photography Place:
Jen Fraser Stephanie Boissoin Crochet Or Knitting First Place: : Stephanie Boissoin Second Place: Third Place Stephanie Boissoin
Beaded Work First Place: Dina Grenon Dina Grenon Quilts First Place: Rhonda & Glynnie Second Place: ThirdMarg Place: Van Dusen Marg Van Dusen Other First Place: Marg Van Dusen (Woven Throw) Second Place: (Y. Butterfly) Third Place: (G.butterfly) Congratulations To The Grand Aggregate Winners
1. Louise Piche 2. Marg Vandusen 3. Penrose Family P10 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2016 THE KLONDIKE SUN Prose Buried Winner! By Erika Rauguth focus on the image of the rosy- a death mask. The panic rose in Prose Winner: Authors on Eighth cheeked, blond English girl me again, and I began to feel like that Walt had taken up an ac- I was choking. “It’s so dark.” quaintance with while we were “Dark, Harry? Hold on, we’ve training in Bramshott. She was gotten through this once al- “The wall’s come down on few minutes.” thinking that we were going to a pleasant girl and Walt had ready.” It felt like his whispered them...Shovels! We need shov- I could hardly breathe, but I come over here and win this, seemed, well, taken with her. I voice was just inches from my els!” The corporal scrambled whispered back to him. “Yes, like we had been in ‘98, that first had been bothered by fleeting ear. “Do you remember that towards the white and panicked okay.” day the steamer left Seattle. fears that he might not want winter, the first winter we were faces of the soldiers that were “Do you have air around your You’d think we’d have learned to return to the North when it out on the creek? I know you do. approaching. face, I mean, like a pocket of air? something about things like that, was all over, that I might lose God, I was not prepared for the “You can’t even tell there was What is it like for you?” he asked. about the difference between my friend to the war after all, darkness. I don’t know what the a trench there, Sir. Surely none I felt through the darkness, hope and reality, how life, well, it although not in the way most hell I thought it was going to be have survived!” trying to sense what was about isn’t what you think its going to expected. like on the gold fields in winter, “Just dig! For God’s sake, dig! me, but the only sensation I be. We thought we were going to “I’ve got a bit of a secret, but I wasn’t ready for the dark. It Lieutenant Black’s in there, along could find was mud and more march into victory, win the war Harry...I think...well, I’ve written seemed to eat the light that our with five of his men!” mud. Close to my nose and for them, with our machine guns a letter and I’ve asked her, Mary lantern gave off, that dark did. “But surely they are gone, sir. mouth, there was more of a feel- and our Yukon spirit!” that is...if I make it back...if she’ll Like it was alive and was snatch- The blast was right beside them. ing of loose dirt, which explained He chuckled slightly at the marry me. I have it right here in ing the light before it reached Besides, we’re in the sights of why I was not suffocating. “Not memory, and I found a smile my pocket and when we get out our eyes. the enemy, Sir. We’re going to get much air.” I hissed back, so silent coming to my lips. My mind of here, I’m going to post it.” “But then, there were those shot!” I could almost not hear it myself. returned to that first day when I wanted to utter something, nights, those nights when the “There is no time for debate. I did not imagine that Walt Walt surrendered his comfort- give some response to his mo- sky would light up, like heaven These are my men, from my could have heard me, however, able plaid flannel shirt and mentous announcement, but my itself was on fire. My god, I don’t company, the Yukon Motor he must have because he replied. sacrificed his bushy beard for tongue seemed to be swollen in know if I have ever seen any- MG. None of us came from the “Ok well, you listen up. I have a the cause, and I saw him a few my mouth and Walt’s voice was thing so glorious since. The snap Klondike to be buried alive in big pocket here, so I’ll do all the hours later, shaved and trimmed becoming quiet and distant. He and the roar and the crimson the mud of France. Now, shut up talking. You just need to stay smartly dressed in khaki. I al- must have sensed something be- flames that seemed to dance and start digging or by God, I awake and stay alive. What a most would not have recognized cause the next thing he said was above that little cabin, as if it will shoot you myself!” change for us, hey Harry. Me him if I hadn’t known him from “Harry? Harry, say something.” was just for us. Do you remem- talking and you listening.” his youth. Still, there were many “It’s so dark, Walt.” I struggled. ber how I would just stand out- There was no noise. I only re- “Do you remember how it who had to look twice at the new “I can’t see anything. Walt, I side, even in the bitterest cold, member the silence, but before felt when we headed to the soldier who walked toward the think I might be...” The mud and and gaze at them? Those lights my eyes, I could see their faces, Klondike? We were so excited. waterfront that day, seeing the dirt on my face began to feel like kept me sane that winter. Do you their wide, terror-filled eyes, Such stupid fools, but we didn’t name on his chest as Elliston, their open mouths that uttered care, did we, if it was hard. It which provided no hints as to his no sound, their ghost-pale faces was our chance. Do remember identity in a place where he had Personal Firewood Permits and then nothing. Blackness. the Chilkoot? Do you remember been simply “Walt” for the 18 Where was I? For a moment, I when you didn’t think we would years he lived there. Yukon government Forest Management branch would like to remind thought I was back on Bonanza make it? We did, though. All the That last day in Dawson, those Yukoners that a Forest Resources Permit is required to cut firewood Creek and it must be winter way to Dawson, our backs nearly last moments, flashed before my on public land for personal use. when we’d rise in the dark and breaking from our packs, almost eyes. As we boarded the ship, carry on for our whole day with- losing everything, all our world- I had searched the crowd for A permit to harvest up to 25 cubic metres (11 cords) to heat your out a scrap of light. But then I ly possessions, in the water. Charlotte and saw both pride home or shop is free. To get one, drop by your local Compliance remembered...the war, the mud, Barely 18, and every penny sunk and sorrow in her face, holding Monitoring & Inspections office. the machine guns, the shells... into our big adventure. Bess and pointing me out to her. Remember to carry your permit with you when cutting and Where had I been? My aching “We could have left, hey Harry, The band music, the speeches, transporting wood. If you choose to purchase firewood to support brain began to recall the scene. but we didn’t...no, we stayed. the flag waving, the handker- local businesses, please ensure you do so from an authorized vendor. Lieutenant Black to the left of me Stayed on through the cold and chiefs that were busily wiping The product or vehicle should be labelled with a unique timbermark and to the right, Walt. the work and muck, the hunger. eyes, the cheers...it was all melt- that confirms the harvesting was conducted legally. There was a ringing in my ears We didn’t hit the motherlode, ing together in a fuzzy haze in For more information, contact your local Compliance, Monitoring but the sound of my own name but we didn’t die either. It was my mind. and Inspections district office. Get all the details at seemed to be rising above it. home, Dawson...it is home still. Walt’s words echoed my www.forestry.gov.yk.ca “Harry? Harry, are you al- And then you found Charlotte... thoughts. “The last time I saw right? Are you alive?” and Bessie was born...Remem- Dawson, standing on the Light- “Walt?” My voice was thin and ber how you had to talk Father ning’s deck that day, the whole it seemed to just drift out of my Brown into letting me be god- town was there and we watched mouth. father even though I wasn’t them, waving until they were I could now feel the mud on Catholic? ‘He’ll be in mass every just a blur in the distance. I’m my face and tried to move to week, I promise’ you told him... not sure you noticed, but I went wipe it off, only to find my arms Ha, you liar! But he knew and he and stood right near the front of pinned beside me, almost behind did it anyway. I don’t know if you the ship, with my face into the my back. It was then that I be- knew this, but I used to bring wind so that nobody would see came aware of the heavy weight him moose meat, or a fish or that I was crying.” that seemed to lie like a blanket two, whenever I was in town. He “It wasn’t what we expected, over my whole body. was a good old guy.” was it Harry-boy? I had wanted “I can’t move, Walt!” I heard As Walt talked, I tried to to visit England. My mother was the panic in my voice. “My draw up pictures of my home on from the north, near Manchester, arms...they’re pinned and my Nineth Avenue, and my wife, the but I had never been there till Open daily legs...I can’t feel them.” way she looked when the sun we landed. I was sort of excited for Breakfast and Dinner A tired reply. “It’s the same caught her red hair in the eve- about it when we left Canada, with me, Harry.” ning, replaying my daughter’s but I wasn’t figuring then that Continental Breakfast Buffet “Oh, God! We’re buried. Oh, first steps like a movie reel. I we’d be there so long. Now, of 7.00 am – 10.00 am Dinner 5.00pm – 10.00 pm God!” I did not recognize my could feel myself calming as my course, I wish we were back own voice as it began to reach a mind returned to my home. there, sitting around, trying to (867) 993-6860 fever pitch. “Remember when we heard figure when they’d give us actual “Harry. You’re wasting air!” he about that Joe Boyle was put- machine guns to practice with, [email protected] hissed. “Calm down! They will ting together a battalion? Past and of course, those afternoon be digging us out in no time, but 30, each of us, yet we were like strolls with Mary.” we need to stay alive for these crazy young school boys again, I tried to make my brain THE KLONDIKE SUN WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2016 P11
2016 Authors on Eighth Prose Winner (continued) Passchendaele on November 10th, a shell hit and buried Lieuten- remember? my own mind. And I knew I’d winters are bitter cold and the rectly. We have recovered...well, ant Black and five other men. It “And do you remember the be okay because you came for summers are all mud and mos- what remains, but sir...we...we took some time to dig them out. cold? My god, I shudder when I me. I knew I would live. Harry, quitos. only identified him because of At one point while buried, Black think of it now, even as cold and that day, life sort of started “But we did it, Harry, we did his tags.” could hear the diggers discussing miserable as we’ve been in these over for me, like every day after it for almost 20 years and it was “Oh my God...Did...did...was he whether it was worth excavat- trenches, I don’t know if they was a gift. I’ve always felt like I a damn good life. And we are in pain? At the end?” ing for any more survivors (or compare to that first winter. I got a second chance and all the going back to it, do you hear “Sir, he suffered a direct hit. bodies). (excerpt from The Yukon would wake up with my beard days after were borrowed time. me. Private Conners, raise your He would have died instantly, Machine Gun Battery in the Fields frozen, I swear it was! And it That’s why I was okay to keep on voice! Shout, otherwise, neither poor fellow.” of France by Michael Gates, pub- seemed like that cabin had more when it was hard, through the of us is getting home!” “Poor fellow? Poor fellow in- lished in the Yukon News, Septem- holes than a mortal man could muck and the work and the win- With that, we both seemed to Note:deed...... during He might an beoperation the luckiest near ber 12, 2014) chink.” ters. Why I wasn’t worried about find our voices. I willed every of us all.” He paused. “Harry do you hear going off to war, even at 35. I’d bone and fiber of my being to me? Make a sound.” already cheated death” grunt and call. Our shouts of I uttered a small grunt, and Walt’s voice came as though help were greeted with shovel that seemed to satisfy him. I through a fog now, and I could scrapes and the urgent voices of could feel my mind becoming feel myself starting to slip away our rescuers, below the sounds foggy, and his voice just seemed as if being pulled into the dark- of the continued gunfire and ex- Winter to drift away slightly, like he was ness. plosions. moving away from me. “Harry? Make a sound, Harry.” I caught a glimpse of the sun, Hours: “Harry, do you remember how Walt’s voice began to drift even I swear, before exhaustion over- I almost lost my toes that day in farther and was becoming softer. came me and the world turned 7:00 AM - 9:00 PM February, when I lost my way I could hear an urgency in him. black. going to check the fur traps. We “Harry, do you hear me? You 7 Days a Week. were down to almost nothing need to hang on. I can hear them “Is he dead?” edible, besides the dried beans coming, with the shovels. You “No sir, just unconscious. He’s Daily Breakfast, and some salt. need to make noise, to let them all but run out of air. It’s amaz- “Do you remember how you know you are alive and where ing that he even made it. But sir, Lunch and Dinner had to search for me, in the dark you are.” Lieutenant Black is awake and Specials. and snow? I must have been a My tongue felt like it was made asking about Conners and El- sorry mess...I haven’t told you of stone and my lips could barely lingston and the other men. Shall this, but I thought I was going wrap themselves around the I tell him that Conners is alive?” to die that day. Right up until words I tried to make. “Walt, I “Yes, of course, but what about the minute I heard your voice, can’t. It’s too hard.” Ellingston. Did we find him” Located in the Downtown Hotel I thought it was the end for me. “No, it’s not too hard, Harry! “Sir, that isn’t going to hap- And then I heard you calling for You know what is hard? Surviv- pen.” Second Ave & Queen St • (867) 993-5346 me. I heard it above the roar of ing in the Klondike! Living as a “What do you mean?” the wind and the dullness of prospector in a land where the “The shell hit Ellingston di-
IT’S TIME FOR OUR ANNUAL CHECKUP
You’re invited to our 2016 Annual General Meeting
Wednesday September 28 7:00 pm Whitehorse General Hospital
All are welcome to attend Refreshments will be available
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The Sun obtained funding in late 2009 from the City of Dawson, YTG’s Heritage Branch and the Community Development Fund to conserve and archive early issues and make them available once again in the public domain. This is a great resource for students, writers and historians, and also for prospective tourists with an interest in Dawson City’s life. Each month, we are re-printing our front pages from 20 years ago as a souvenir of our lively history. If you want to see page 2 and beyond, check out our website. Past issues are available there for download. Go to http://klondikesun.com. More will be added periodically when we have time! In 1996, we became a bi-weekly. Should 20 Years Ago be a feature of every issue of the Sun from now on? Let us know. P18 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2016 THE KLONDIKE SUN
Scots of the Yukon Story by James McQuiston
only two named members of a through McQuesten that he Mile and Circle City miners Powers, Ellis Lewis, R. Lowrie, “whiskey gang” being investi- happened to be at the mouth began to believe the news Fred Hutchinson, Pete McDon- There are many more ex- gated by the Canadian Mount- of the Klondike, when he made and packed their gear for the ald, S.S. Mitchell, Matt Hall, Ar- amples of Scottish discover- ies for tax purposes. It has his famous discovery.” Klondike. Two more Scots- thur Harper and N. McArthur. ies in the Yukon and Alaska been said that O’Brien went on In their writings, both Mc- men staking claims along the During my visit to Dawson territories. For instance, to establish the first legal dis- Questen and Carmack tell the Klondike within two days of City I also met with John Professor John Muir was the tillery in Dawson. Jack simply same story about Jack grub- Carmack’s strike were Gregory Gould, the now-deceased first man to extensively record moved over the border into staking Carmack and suggest- Stewart and D. Robertson. former historian for the Yukon the glaciers at Alaska’s Glacier Alaska, where he continued to ing he head to the Klondike to The stampede had begun that Order of Pioneers, whose Scot- Bay. The Muir Glacier is named manufacture his product. He look for gold. quickly. tish family name was Guild. for him, and it is written that may well be the namesake, if In August of 1896 Carmack A local claims recorder was His father and grandfather “Mr. Wallace, first officer of not the original producer of happened upon another Scots- desperately needed to docu- before him were miners along the steamer Idaho,” led the the whiskey known as Yukon man named Robert Henderson, ment the fast-growing number the Klondike, stretching far first landing party ashore at Jack®. who had found a small amount of Klondike gold diggings, and back to the very beginnings of that glacier. Muir and Wallace The head of the Yukon of gold along Klondike tribu- so the Scots-blooded David gold mining in this area. are very recognizable Scottish division of the North-West taries. Henderson, whose Scot- McKay was elected to that I also met an extremely names. Mounted Police looking into tish family had immigrated position. successful modern-day gold One by one, Scots were mak- the whiskey gang was the first to Nova Scotia, suggested Many other men of Scottish miner, the Scots-blooded Jim ing their mark on the Yukon Scot, Samuel Steele, whose that Carmack should check out descent trekked the Yukon Archibald, who told me that River Valley and the vast lands mother was Anne Macdonald, nearby Rabbit Creek. Carmack River Valley in search of gold. Dawson wouldn’t be half the that surrounded it. An uniden- the youngest daughter of Neil was accompanied by his Na- Jack McQuesten repre- town it is, if not for Jack Mc- tified “red-haired Scotsman” Maclain MacDonald of Ard- tive friends, Jim and Charley. sented the Alaskan Com- Questen. He said he feels just was the first-known white namurchan, a native of Islay, The three miners made their mercial Company, begun by as privileged, and indebted to man to attempt a crossing of Scotland. way to Rabbit Creek, a tribu- the Scots-blooded Hayword Jack, as all those early miners the infamous Chilkoot Pass, Jack McQuesten was also tary of the Klondike. Hutchison. At one point the that McQuesten grubstaked. with its 1,000 foot snow cov- famous for becoming the There, along the headwaters company entertained the idea Though he had already ered summit that led to the first president of the Yukon of the Klondike, one of the of replacing Jack. A petition returned to the lower forty- Yukon headwaters. He was Order Of Pioneers, and as the men, apparently by accident, was signed by many Yukon eight in 1897, Captain Jack captured by the same Chilkat inventor of the sourdough found a thumb-sized nug- miners to keep McQuesten as came back to the Yukon Valley Indians who had destroyed thermometer, which out per- get of gold, which set off the their trading partner. Scottish to establish an Alaskan Com- Fort Selkirk but was later formed typical thermometers Klondike rush. After collecting names on that petition include mercial Company store at the released. in reading the extremely low a fair amount of gold, Carmack William Stewart, Frank Dens- newly founded Dawson City. It is thought that this man temperatures of the Yukon made his way down to Jack’s more, Fred Hart and William He had originally left with his may have been the Scotsman Valley. He was the first to farm town of Forty Mile along with McPhee. family because he foresaw George Holt or the Scotsman along the Yukon on a large Charley, to file his claim, while Jack was the first president the terrible deaths that would Edmund Bean, whose fam- scale, growing literally tons of Jim stayed behind to protect of the Yukon Order Of Pioneers come with the Klondike strike ily came out of Clan Chattan. turnips on islands that would the diggings. whose initial members in- through starvation, scurvy Later, the pass was opened by stay warmer longer, using Carmack began bragging cluded Scotsmen by the names and claim jumping. It was on a Scotsman named E.P. McClel- sled dogs and even a trained about the gold while drink- of John Campbell, Howard his return to the North, in lan, who faced down the leader moose to pull his plow. Jack ing in Scotsman Bill McPhee’s Hamilton, George McCue, Isaac 1898, that he met Jack London. of the Chilkats with a Gatling established the forts Nelson famous Caribou Saloon. He gun to make way for the influx and Reliance, and the towns of was met with skepticism both of miners into the Yukon River Forty Mile and Circle City. because of his reputation for Valley. McQuesten grubstaked stretching the truth and be- South of the Chilkoot Pass most of the early miners in cause it was thought that the stood the Dyea Pass, which the Yukon Valley. One of those area had been explored thor- Holt and Bean also opened. men was George Carmack. oughly. However, not many Now, there were three paths It is believed that Carmack’s miners had ventured up the into the Yukon River Valley original family surname was Klondike due to it being a fish- – through the backdoor by McCormick, but, because he ing ground of Native tribes. way of the Mackenzie River, fashioned himself as an Indian The gold had been there for all up the mouth of the Yukon chief, after marrying an Indian those years, only a few miles River by steamboats very princess, he took a name that from Jack’s trading post of often skippered by Captain sounded more Native. Thus, Fort Reliance. It proved to be Jack McQuesten, or across he became known simply as the biggest stampede of the the Chilkoot or Dyea Passes, Carmack. Yukon, the undoing of Jack’s opened by Holt, Bean and Mc- Carmack discovered gold towns of Forty Mile and Circle Clelland. Scots played impor- on the Klondike River, whose City, and the end of his 25-year tant roles in establishing all juncture with the Yukon River career in that valley. three paths into the Yukon was located only six miles None of the miners had seen River Valley. from Jack’s old post of Fort the likes of Carmack’s gold The ancient art of whisky Reliance. The area nearby before. William Ogilvie, still in making carried on in the became Dawson City. Forty Mile surveying the U.S./ Yukon Valley. In Dawson City, According to the Victoria Canadian border, remarked, “it Jack McQuesten and an- Daily Times, “George Carmack, could not have fallen from the other partner, Tom “Mickey” discoverer of the Klondike, sky.” O’Brien, were identified as the says that it was indirectly Before long, many Forty
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Scots of the Yukon (continued) Klondike
He also may have met Wyatt kon and Klondike gold-miners recording weather records, better understand the role of Earp, who had established a awaited his arrival. from climbing mountains Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Outreach saloon in Nome, Alaska, that Newspapers across America to discovering rivers, from Selkirk, and his associates, competed with the McQuesten announced Jack McQuesten’s establishing forts and towns along with the Bank of Scotland Saloon, there. It is known that death, branding him as “Father to recording that exploration and the Royal Bank of Scot- Job Board Earp did become close friends of the Yukon” and “Father of in books, short stories, poems land, in financing and pushing with McQuesten’s partner, Al Alaska.” He has lived on as and documentaries. forward the settlement of the Open Positions: Mayo, and there is at least one a character in a number of Descendants of the early YukonAuthor River James Valley. McQuiston has story of Earp being in Dawson books, beyond those written Scots of the Yukon and Alaska long written on the history of for just a short while, leaving by Jack London, and has had still live there, and mine for Scotland, Northern Ireland and because he could not keep his dozens of stories told about gold there, even today. De- the Yukon River Valley (particu- Advanced First Aid firearm with him. him throughout the years. His scendants of Scots still record larly concerning his relative, Attendant/Site Security It has been reported that departure from the Yukon Val- Yukon River history today. Captain Jack McQuesten). He is a Automotive Mechanic Jack McQuesten brought two ley was followed by the influx It might be said that a Fellow with the Society of Anti- Camp Cooks & 2nd Cook million dollars in gold home of thousands of men of many combination of adventurous, quaries of Scotland, and publish- Cashier/Sales Person with him, as he left behind the different nationalities. The brave, persistent Scottish ex- er of an e-magazine called Celtic Cooks – various life he had lived for twenty- era of the Scotsman dominat- plorers and financial interests Guide (www.celticguide.com). Custodial Staff five years along the great ing so many aspects of Yukon driven by Scottish investors McQuesten has a few books to Drywaller river. life was coming to a close, and led to significant influence in his credit and has been published Early Childhood Educators Back in California, he fed yet so much history and so the settlement of the Yukon in Highlander Magazine, as well Equipment Operators stories of the Yukon River Val- many Scottish names were left River Valley by men, and as with many newspapers and Expediter ley to Jack London in between behind. women, of Scottish descent. websites. He has had unique, his- his travels across America, Scots were early partici- But the story is not finished. torical white papers accepted by Front Desk Clerk where he was greeted with pants in virtually every cat- I propose that not only should two U.S. Presidential Libraries Front Desk/Night Auditor much notoriety. He died in egory that can be thought of in we recognize the efforts of and Museums, and has worked Grocery Clerk 1909, just as he was planning the exploration of the Yukon Scotsmen on both sides of the to preserve the hidden history of Heavy Equipment or to attend the Alaska-Yukon- River Valley, from finding gold Atlantic in settling this area, many heroic Scotsmen. Automotive Technician Pacific Exposition in Seattle, to skippering steamships, but also that further research Housekeepers/Room Washington, where many Yu- from naming landmarks to needs to be undertaken to Attendants Classified ads are $6 per insertion. 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P20 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2016 THE KLONDIKE SUN
P.O. Box 308 (1336 Front Street), Dawson City, Yukon, Y0B 1G0 Tel: (867) 993-7400 ~ Fax: (867) 993-7434 www.cityofdawson.ca
P.O BOX 308, DAWSON CITY, YUKON Y0B 1G0 PH: (867) 993-7400, FAX: (867) 993-7434
The City of Dawson is seeking interested people to serve on the Heritage Advisory Committee
The Heritage Advisory Committee is made up of three to five residents of the City of Dawson
Duties and Responsibilities: The Heritage Advisory Committee • has the responsibility to consider and make recommendations to Mayor and Council on the heritage aspects of municipal development
• hears all matters referred to the Committee to ensure compliance with the Zoning and Heritage Management Bylaw #09-03, Heritage Bylaw #09-04, and Heritage Fund Bylaw #09-05.
Qualifications: A positive commitment to the development of Dawson An ability to exercise fair and unbiased judgment Resident in the City of Dawson for at least one year
Desirable, but not required: Knowledge of Dawson’s history and of historical architectureHistorical Properties Stewardship Rebate Knowledge of municipal issues regarding development and land use planning The City of Dawson recognizes that the stewardship of historically significant Knowledge of the construction industry. buildings is a benefit to the cultural and economic stability of our community. DO YOU QUALIFY FOR A HISTORICAL PROPERTY STEWARDSHIP REBATE? st Submissions must be received by 5:00pm Thursday,Eligibility the 31 Requirements: of July, 2014 at the City office. If you or anyone you know is interested or needs moreProperties information, must meet please all contactof the following Micah Olesh eligibility at the requirements City to be eligible of Dawson, 993-7400 ext. 414. for the rebate: a) Identified as having a historically significant structure or structures as listed in the Yukon Historic Sites Inventory; and b) 2016 Current year taxes on the property increased as a result of the minimum tax rate increases in 2014, ie, You are paying the residential minimal rate of $800 or the non-residential minimal rate of $1,100.; and NEXT COMMUNITY GRANT INTAKE DEADLINE: c) Designated assessment code on the City of Dawson Assessment roll for the property is one of the following: RMH, RS1, RS2, RSC, or RSM, CMC, CMH, CML, CMS, MHI, MSI, NOZ, OSP,PI, PLM, PRC, or QRY. September 15, 2016. d) Outstanding Taxes are paid in full. Applications available at our office or on the Web Site. Properties that meet any of the following are not eligible for the rebate: a) Designated assessment code on the City of Dawson Assessment toll for the property is INS. AUDITOR’SPursuant to REPORT section 260(1) & FINANCIAL of the Municipal STATEMENT Act the b) Property owner is a government, quasi government or religious body. City of Dawson does hereby give notice that the for All applications MUST BE RECEIVED by December 31, 2016. Late applica- the Year Ended December 31, 2015 are now available tions will not be considered. for inspection. Interested individuals may view these documents at the City of Dawson Office. dawson city – heart of the klondike