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in this Klondike Constituency Issue Yukon Party CFYT Radiothon p. 8 High quality gold is his talent p. 9 Klondike Mines Railway p. 10 In 2013 the The Radiothon raise lots of cash Andrew Kuczynski is a Master See the new railway display at for CFYT-fm Jeweller with much talent and the VIC. Dawson City heart. Community Hospital and See and Do 2 Victoria Poet Visits Dawson 5 Carmacks Opens Art Gallery 7 20 years Ago In the Sun 17 Yukon River Quest 2 Double Value Assessment Work 5 Premiers United Against Carbon Pricing 8 Scots of the Yukon 18 Health Services Uffish Thoughts: Power Shortages 4 History Hunter 6 Adult Colouring Book 11 Scots of the Yukon 19 Letter to Editor: Errant Bicycles 5 New YEU Collective Agreement 6 TV Guide 12-16 City of Dawson Notices 20 Facility Opened. P2 WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 2016 THE KLONDIKE SUN What to A Field Study Approach Brings Students North SEE and DO in dawson now:
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Meet first Wednesday of each month at Rhomeoya lof CJaniceanadian Cliff at Le 7:30gion p.m. B rancFor infoh call#1: Janice Cliff, 993-2908. Recess for summer July-October. Meet first Thursday Peachioneer month W ato mLegionen o fHall th (3rde Yuk andon King: St.) at 7:30 p.m. Contact Myrna Butterworth, 993-5353. Meet third Thursday each about their worldview, the month at 7:30 p.m. at Legion Hall. Contact Myrna Butterworth, hardships they’ve faced and 993-5353.Dawson RecessCity Community for summer June, Library July and Aug. how hard they are working to teach the language to their REGULAR hours youth. We learned a few Chamber of Commerce: Monday to Friday, noon - 6:30 p.m. words and stories, too. We learned how to do some basic Chamber Meetings: beading; it’s much harder than it looks. We went hiking and Regular meetings on the second saw lots of moose tracks and Wednesday of each month at the Downtown Hotel. Town Council miles of natural beauty. Our guide taught us bear safety and Council Meetings: pointed out things like branches that had been stripped by There is no longer a fixed routine schedule porcupine. Tombstone of Council and Committee of the Whole (COW) meetings. Check the AdventuresTerritorial Park at M isuktuk majestic. Post Office or the City of Dawson website for long range planning. By Lauren Lee and Betty Fung Next Council Meetings are August 16 and September 13. Photos by Karen MacKay Big City Kids to the Yukon Next COW meetings are August 9 and 30. Story by Laurie Cassie – By Jordan Wong & Charlotte St. Paul's Grade 6/7 teacher, David Gilhuly Livingstone Elementary, How many students from Cave Quest: Vancouver, BC Vancouver have experienced Some of our grade 6 ‘sand 7’s camping with 125 dogs at a Vacation Bible School at St. Paul's from August 8-12, are used to a little pampering: dog-sledding kennel in the 2:00-5:00 p.m.; ages 5 to 11; songs, dance, games, imagination, I believe there are great being driven to and from middle of the Yukon? This Bibe stories. Call Betty at 993-5045/993-3947 or Rev. Lauries at benefits to experiential places, fresh sushi restaurants, once-in-a-lifetime experience 993-5381. learning. You can read about inexpensive fresh fruit year changed our lives and made us something, you can write about round, a short internet access realize that the world is more something, you can talk about at your fingertips, fresh laundry than Vancouver. Camping something. But when you all the time or being able to in the wilderness under the EXPERIENCE something, the head outdoors without giving midnight sun, playing with the learning sticks. a thought to the weather. As sled dogs, canoeing down the The excitement that swelled the days went on, the students Takhini River in a hail storm all around the gold rush fascinates had realized that life in the opened our eyes to how to have me. The idea that, with little Yukon is very different than fun without going to a mall or or no mining skills, would-be in Vancouver. We learned to turning on a device. We can prospectors walked away from persevere. We learned to make Whathave fun We without Learned the internet! their lives and headed into the do. We learned it’s OK to be By Charlotte Wood and Fleur harshest of environments is dirty for a while. We learned Auton-Strolz bizarre by today’s standards. it’s OK to slow down and just It’s also captivating and that’s a see if it will work out. great learning environment. There were many ‘firsts’ for We’re glad our teacher found I also believe that the north students on this trip: first time the story of the Klondike gold holds great potential for Canada camping, first time on a plane, rush bizarre. We learned you – especially our youth. Canada first time being away from don’t have to live in a big, busy Join us at the Keno Lounge has much more to offer to our home, first time in the Yukon city. Real estate here is out of th control. We learned we can live and enjoy your favorite craft brew or specialty youth than just the big cities and the first time being in a along the 49 parallel. When town so small you can walk adventurously surrounded by martini on the best patio in Dawson City! you are introduced to people, from end to end. It’s definitely nature and history. Cities aren’t Keno Lounge is open 2:00pm – Midnight places, ideas in your youth, the first time we’ve written an the only places where you can Belinda’s Restaurant is open 6:30am – 9:00pm later these things are not seen Tombstonearticle for a newspaper!Territorial Park live and have fun. We canoed – as foreign, impossible, scary. By Joshua Chan fun! We learned about hunting Instead, you can look back and – sounds interesting! We did a say, “Yeah. I’ve been there. It lot of hiking – fun! We learned was great. Maybe there is a From Dawson City, we about ice fishing – sounds future there for me.’ travelled north to Tombstone fascinating. There are lots of Belinda’s is closed from 2pm - 5pm Territorial Park for hiking and ways to live here and have fun – (800) 544-0970 | westmarkhotels.com a workshop with the Tr’ondëk these are just a few. Hwēch’in. Here we learned THE KLONDIKE SUN WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 2016 P3
To finish is to win in the Yukon River Quest (continued)
Clockwise from top left: (1) Pam Boyd, Race timer. (2) Roger Hanberg, Race Marshall, at the end of the 4-day marathon event. Story and Photos Skagway News. By Josee Bonhomme of the Brady (58 years young) and his son, At the close of Part One Danny (15 years old), raced as of this story (in the July 13 the “Brady Boys” this year in a edition of the Klondike Sun), respectable time of 66:07:16, I mentioned that the Yukon finishing in 23rd place in their River Quest is supported by category. This experience an impressive list of sponsors. would have been the best male- checkpoint can be shut down. cal reasons, and unexpected salad, bread rolls, all a pad- For example, Andrew Kuc- bonding session ever. Safety boats are the Saint- health conditions on a mara- dler hopes for after 715 km of zynski of Gold Trail Jewellers It would indeed provide one Bernards of the Yukon River thon event. After all, an “elite admiring the scenery. creates small solid gold canoe of the best opportunities for Quest. They are trained for sport” is what this might be The Dawson Fire Department pendants and other awards challenge and adventure in the rescues, never make a wake called in other parts. is great at managing those as reminders of how special world. Which is why the race for the paddlers, and just keep The duty of care involved barbecues and the caboose was Dawson is, along with the great attracts nearly 250 kayakers, an eye out for opportunities to in such an event is enormous. steaming hard. They are the accomplishment achieved by canoeists and now stand- rescue and help. Or photo op- This crew of volunteers, board only ones qualified to respond this event. He has supported up paddleboarders from all portunities when Harry Kern members and directors, spon- to their own fire while feeding the race for seven years now around the world. serves as ballast with his BIG sors, mainly from the Yukon, 500 people! The Percy de Wolfe (see page 9). The Perfect Storm team cameras. pulled off a magnificent event. Society members graciously (two-man canoe) took the hon- Kern was involved with the It seems it’s good to have pad- served the crowd with three Kaminak Gold Corp., now to ours with a fastest time this race from the start, also one dled the race to volunteer, it’s volunteers. become GoldCorp for short, year in 46:14:56 (Jeff Brainard of its instigators. He rides very specialized. Because the And that’s Dawson and the contributed $5,000 this year; of Roslyn, ON, Gaétan Plourde in the safety boats and gets sport of moving water paddling Yukon River Quest victory. One a new checkpoint at CoffeeThe of Kanata, ON). The fastest all- great photos. He is always demands high safety ethics, it racer was overheard outside WhitehorseCreek; and foodStar for everyone, girl team Woopalaye (tandem on the ready for a rescue, but makes the job somewhat easier. on a cell phone describing his racers and volunteers. canoe) came in with a time there rarely are any. This year, But this whole crew, about 300 experience: “It’s super-fun,” he printed a spe- of 50:42:22 (Laurélie Harvey, the major event for him was all told, did a fantastic job. said. And that’s a consensus. cial full-colour supplement; it Joannie Pelletier of Québec, witnessing some lettuce that The final awards ceremony The best news story is that one was so popular the 200 copies QC). The last paddler, Dave overtopped a large bowl being and banquet were well attend- marriage proposal was made the Quest had for distribution Barnes the Paddlingboy (from taken into the school’s gym ed by about 500 people, at the on the Midnight Dome late were rare objects to be fought Saltspring Island, BC), clocked for the final banquet. He made Robert Service School’s gym. on July 2nd. One finisher was over. Jeff Brady had a hand in it, in at 70:15:52 gliding his solo sure the news reporter was It was standing room only; granted very special privileges. and it was fabulous work. kayak into port on Saturday at informed. all meal tickets were sold out. For more information, visit Brady is one of the instiga- 20:16:52, in 77th place. A safe- There were 16 withdrawals The Dawson hospitality crew http://www.yukonriverquest. tors of the race going back to ty boat follows the last paddler before and along the course showed up with barbecued com. 1997-1998 and was the former to the very end; then the final because of personal or techni- vegetables and steaks, a huge Social Infrastructure Spending Strengthens Communities and Grows the Yukon Economy Press Release
to more affordable housing, family violence, and addressing than $6.6 million over two • more than $1.3 million to WHITEHORSE (July 14) including the doubling of cur- repairs and improving energy years. support the construction, re- —The Honourable Jean-Yves rent funding under the Invest- and water efficiency of existing • The Government of Yukon, pair and adaptation of afford- Duclos, Minister of Families, ment in Affordable Housing social housing. through Yukon Housing Corpo- able housing for seniors; Children and Social Develop- (IAH) initiative, addressing Federal Budget 2016 invest- ration, is responsible for choos- • almost half a million dollars ment, and the Honourable high housing needs in the ments in affordable housing ing the programs they design to support the construction Stacey Hassard, Minister of North, supporting affordable will provide targeted support and deliver. Yukon has the and renovation of shelters and Yukon Housing Corporation, housing for seniors, building to those who need it most, flexibility to invest in a range transition houses for victims of today announced measures to and renovating shelters and including in Yukon, and create of affordable housing programs family violence; give Canadians greater access transition houses for victims of good jobs that help grow Can- in order to meet housing needs. • more than half a million Open daily for Breakfast and ada’s economy in a clean and Initiatives can include, for dollars to help address the in- Lunch sustainable way. The federal example, new construction, creasing demand for repairs as and territorial governments renovation, affordability assis- social housing units age, and to Continental Breakfast Buffet will work together to quickly tance and independent living improve efficiency and reduce 7.00 am – 10.00 am deliverQuick the Facts new funding. (accessibility, modifications for energy and water use. Dinner 5.00pm – 10.00 pm persons with disabilities and • As the need for affordable seniors), and support of accom- housing is also particularly (867) 993-6860 modations for victims of family high in the North, the Govern- • In addition to existing fund- violence. ment of Canada is providing an ing under the Investment in additional $8 million over two [email protected] Affordable Housing (IAH), the Through the IAH, the Gov- years to address urgent hous- funding levels by the Govern- ernment of Canada is also ing needs in Yukon. ments of Canada and Yukon providing to Yukon over two have been doubled to more years: P4 WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 2016 THE KLONDIKE SUN OPINION Uffish Thoughts: Thunder, Lightning and Power Shortages Roache's Corner by Mike Roache reply informed me that it was lightning strikes somewhere along the grid. Well, there was quite a bit of thunderous rumbling in the air on both occasions, so there must have been lightning somewhere, though there were no flashes here. That’s the problem with that unified electrical grid we’re all tied into. The actual problem can be anywhere along the Story and Photo system. By Dan Davidson So we arrive at today (July Equally amazing is the speed 14). I’ve described the storm with which these downpours already, and it came bundled dried up within hours after they with crack-o-doom type It’s been an interesting week occurred. At the height there thunder that had our dog unable in Dawson for weather and have been large puddles and to decide quite where to hide power outages. Three of the last running water in the streets, and looking at us as if we were four days have blessed Dawson and yet I’ve been able to walk crazy to be standing outside, with major downpours that had the dog without having her get apparently enjoying Mother small rivers of water running muddy feet before the evening Nature’s performance. down the street outside my was over. I’m in the middle of supper, house on Seventh Avenue, and Where the sun hits, after the watching a Netflix movie on my pouring out the downspout of clouds clear, the heat quickly iPad mini, when the lights go our veranda’s eves-trough as if returns. It’s 10:40 in the evening out. This is when I learn that it was coming from a pressure at this writing, and I’m enjoying there’s about a three minute hose. my summer time writing desk buffer on Netflix streaming, Today was even more in shorts, short sleeve shirt and because it takes that long for the interesting, Thunder boomed sandals (I do wear them with movie to freeze after our house overhead, the temperature socks) listening to some light Wifi quits. My timer gives me dropped about 10 degrees and jazz and soaking up the sun. a reading of 14:56 on this one, what began as light rain shifted More annoying, however, has which means it was probably to a torrential downpour and been the epidemic of power actually 15 minutes, allowing then morphed into hail up to a outages we’ve had over the last for the time it took me to trigger centimeter in diameter, falling three days. The first one was 11 the app on my iPod. so thickly that it covered the minutes here in town (longer I’m kind of hoping that this lawn I had just finished mowing, in the suburbs). That’s fairly spate of outages has come to like a thin coat of snow. standard for us when the power an end for now. I’m getting It was heavy. It was loud does go out. It takes 10 to 15 tired of having to reset all the bouncing off our metal roof. It minutes to bring the diesel plant digital timers on our kitchen was accompanied by gusts of online and begin to energize the appliances.+++++++ wind that had some of the trees various zones. The next evening, across the street from us trying however, was unusual in that to do the limbo. And it was so the stopwatch setting on my spectacular that several of the iPhone timed it at 28 minutes. It Addenda: I didn't get my wish. neighbours joined my son and was probably a little bit longer There was another massive me in watching it from their than that. outage that very night and two porches until it turned back At that point I composed a more over the next two days. It to rain after about 30 minutes short memo to the ever-vigilant was not the best of weeks. and melted all the little white Janet Patterson at Yukon pellets.We want to hear fromEnergy you! and her early morning
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Story & Photo By Dan Davidson were and monsters … the box, the bear’s hollow high After several other bird poems, strung heart …” Blomer turned to aSugar passage Ride: “Wolf Management” is a Victoria poet Yvonne Blomer Cyclingof travel from memoir Hanoi from to Kuala her commentary on the current presented a reading of her work Lumpurforthcoming book, wolf cull being practiced in to half a dozen enthusiasts at British Columbia, a poem she the Dawson Community Library , a chronicle of a cycling has actually read as one of of her on June 13. trip she and her husband took in monthly presentations during Writer, critic, teacher and 1999. She has used some of this her time as Poet Laureate poet, Blomer was born in imagery in poems in other books, Victoria, in which post she Zimbabwe, and came to Canada but this will be a prose memoir. doesn’t hesitate to be a bit when she was two years old. The passage she read came from political at times. This one With her husband, Rupert, she one of their longest days on the begins “ The moon, lopsided, has taught in Japan, cycled road. She warned her audience half-full / is a winter wolf, ears through Southeast Asia, and that she felt she sounded a bit wind-cocked / mouth the dark lived in the UK, where she tired and whiney in this extract, ‘o’ of howl …” completed a Masters in Creative but this tended to be obscured by During a four-year term, the Writing with Distinction at the exotic nature of the journey. Poet Laureate is required to The University of East Anglia. She concluded the reading produce three new original Yvonne is proud to be serving portion of the evening with works each year that reflect as the Poet Laureate for the City several newer poems, some so or represent ideas and issues of Victoria, BC reading, and is series. the Artistic new that corrective scribbles of importance to the people of Director emeritus of the Planet could be seen on the paper from Victoria, and recite poems at Earth Poetry which she was reading. City events, Council meetings Yvonne Blomer presented her work in both prose and poetry at the AsShe if a beganRaven her reading with “Weather” recalled a day last and the annual Victoria Book Dawson Community Library. poems from her 2014 collection, summer when the fires on the Prize Awards Gala. In addition, . mainland were so thick that the Poet Laureate hosts a “It’s a book of poems about ash was falling in Nanaimo: number of poetry events in receives $2000 annually to use Blomer and her family were birds that show up in Biblical “Sometimes, swimming, you are the community, collaborates in the promotion of a poetry heading north to Inuvik, texts,” she said, “so it’s exploring also immersed in fire / ash coats with the Greater Victoria event as well as program enjoying a return to the Yukon, creation, destruction and life.” your wet hair / the sun has been Public Library on readings, activities at the Greater Victoria which she had last visited in The title poem references the stolen / replaced by an orange workshops and its new Poet- Public Library. 2015. Earlier she had visited raven that Noah is said to have ball …” in-Residence days, and serves There was a good discussion Skagway and Dyea and did a sent forth from the ark after From a series of poems about as a mentor for the Youth Poet about inspirations and methods, reading in Atlin during the music the Flood, and asks “why would the environment, she read “In Laureate. ravens, the difficulties and joys festival there. anyone trust this bird / to come the Box from the World Wildlife Blomer says it’s a challeng- of blending a writer’s career back / and not flap its crooked Fund”: “In the box from the ing post, but well worth her with being a mother. wings / in the new wild earth / World Wildlife Fund there is the time and interest. In addition Following her stay in Dawson, making mountains where none last polar bear / in the belly of to a $3500 honorarium, she Double Value for 2016 LETTER Placer and Quartz Dear Dawson City Staff and Assessment Work Council Story by Josée Bonhomme Join the conversation! a prompt manner and I do not Write a letter to the Sun! believe that the responsibility of Attn: Editor removing this bicycle should fall This morning I arrived at Box 6040, Dawson City, YT, Y0B 1G0 on me. Three readings in the work to find a bicycle locked to There could be serious legal Legislature enabled an Order Or e-mail us at [email protected] the front stairs of the Klondike repercussions if a tourist or some- in Council to be ratified by the Kloset and tried all day with no one walking home drunk from Yukon Government on July 18 success to have the City or the the bar is hurt by tripping over to allow double the credits RCMP remove the offending @KlondikeSun this kind of obstruction. I think for work performed this year, object. City staff and the RCMP that allowing people to lock their retroactive to February 1, juggled my complaint back and bikes up to any business frontage 2016. This is for both Placer forth, apparently unaware of is a major public nuisance that the and Quartz claims, outside who was responsible for this City should look into. Maybe the Settlement Lands. Prospecting issue. City of Dawson should put some leases are not included in this Eventually, after many calls money into providing bike racks effort to stimulate the economy. during the afternoon and a site in downtown Dawson so that Miners are advised to contact visit from both City staff and an business owners do not need to go their Mining Recorders if RCMP officer, I was told that it looking for bolt cutters to get rid qualifying work was reported was neither of their problems of errant bikes. earlier than July 18. Work and that the property owner is reported after this date will responsible. I have been unable ConcernedSincerely, Dawson City automatically be adjusted. This to have the property owner Employee is an important opportunity for respond to this situation in local miners. P6 WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 2016 THE KLONDIKE SUN
History Hunter: Jack London’s stories filled with Yukon history
notorious case of the Nantuck those long winter nights, he Brothers, First Nation men wrote to other Klondikers for who sought revenge for the more story ideas. But by that sin of one European passerby time, his career had already by shooting the unsuspecting been propelled along its members of another passing meteoric rise. party, killing one of the men in London later summed up the process. the Klondike experience in his London later became rich own words in an essay that was and famous. The foundation published after his death: upon which he constructed “Having decided that I was his reputation was built upon a failure as a writer, I gave it literary gold, rather than the up and left for the Klondike to mineral type that thousands of prospect for gold. It was in the Tarnel Abbot, London’s great-granddaughter, unveils the new sign at Jack London Square others sought during the gold Klondike that I found myself. with Mayor Wayne Potoroka. rush. London’s astute mind was There nobody talks. Everybody Story By Michael Gates attentive to the stories told to thinks. You get your true The Yukon News, June 30, 2016 him during the long dark winter perspective. I got mine.” Used with the author’s mining that preceded the and selling the product to dog nights spent huddled in tiny MichaelI couldn’t Gates have is said a Yukon it better. permission Klondike gold rush, so one mushers as dog feed. These log cabins at the mouth of the historian and sometimes Photo by Dan Davidson of the Jack London stories I men left the Yukon with a small Stewart River. adventurer based in Whitehorse. decided I should read was “The fortune the following spring, It was the stories inspired He as one of the founders of Men of the Fortymile.” without ever having set foot in by his personal experiences in this newspaper. He is currently I recognized the historical the Klondike. the north and the accounts told writing a book on the Yukon in The Jack London Museum underpinnings of this story. It is “The Unexpected,” a short by the old time prospectors World War I. You can contact him in Dawson City consists of about two men in the early gold story published in McClure’s that inspired his writing and at [email protected] the cabin London was known mining town of Forty Mile who Magazine in August, 1906, is fueled his remarkable rise to to have stayed in during the resolved to settle a dispute by another example. An article fame. When he used up all of gold rush, left; a standing means of a duel. The residents in the Dawson Daily News in theYukon stories Employees’ he had heard during Union and Yukon gov- cache (inspired by a Jim Robb of Forty Mile showed up to August of 1906 attests to the painting); and the building that witness the battle, carrying fact that numerous individuals ernment ratify new collective agreement houses the Jack London exhibit, with them a rope, with which in Seattle and Juneau could Press Release right. to hang the winner. Faced confirm the truth of the details I once wrote a piece about with a no-win outcome, the of London’s story, which was “A lot of hard work by both Jack London in which I posed two combatants settle their based upon an actual event. WHITEHORSE (July 15)—The parties went into this agree- the question: Did Jack London differences without firing a It involves a small party of Government of Yukon and the ment,” Yukon Employees’ Union president Steve Geick said. make the Klondike, or did shot. stampeders stuck at Lituya government’s largest employee “We feel it is a fair deal and are the Klondike make him? The I was excited by this Bay on the Alaskan coast. One group, represented by the Pub- lic Service Alliance of Canada/ pleased the membership took a answer, of course, is that revelation for I had chronicled member of the group tries Yukon Employees’ Union, have similar view.” to kill the other members London’s Yukon books and this event, which was described ratified a new collective agree- The new agreement sets out short stories were the basis in detail in several different of his party. After shooting ment. yearly salary increases totaling upon which his writing career accounts uncovered during my one member of the party, the “Thanks to the commitment 5 per cent over three years – 2 was established. historical research. With great remaining two individuals, a and collaborative approach of per cent in 2016, 1.5 per cent in London is arguably the pre- excitement, I hurried to the Jack man and his wife, are forced to the negotiating teams, an agree- 2017 and 1.5 per cent in 2018. eminent American author of the London Museum in Dawson guard him day and night. When ment has been reached that will The three-year term is from Twentieth Century. In fact, he to speak to Dick North, who this proves to be more than continue to provide benefits for January 1, 2016 to December 31, may be the most widely read at the time was the curator of they can handle, they resort to the government and employ- 2018. The new collective agreement American author around the the display, as well as being the hanging the killer. ees,” Minister responsible for covers approximately 70 per world. London wrote nearly Yukon’s foremost authority on North was not surprised by the Public Service Commission Currie Dixon said. “The new cent of Government of Yukon 200 short stories during his London’s northern escapades. my discovery; he too, had made agreement balances the needs employees. similar observations about the tragically short writing career; One of the characters in the of our employees with the Yu- Negotiations began in Novem- in close to half of these, he Fortymile story was a Catholic Yukon derivation of several of kon government’s commitment ber 2015 to replace the previ- turned to his northern muse for priest named Father Robeau. In London’s famous stories. to provide excellent public ser- ous collective agreement, which inspiration. fact, this character was based In his book, “Sailor on vices for the people of Yukon.” expired in December 2015. My wife Kathy and I recently upon one of two Catholic priests Snowshoes,” Dick North reveals Get Your Veggie on!! attended, and participated who accompanied Bishop other historical events that The Horticultural in the Jack London Festival Seghers into the Yukon wilds inspired other London stories. in Dawson City, an event the summer of 1886. Fathers The short story titled “Finis” Exhibition is coming sponsored by the Klondike Aloyisius Robaut and Pascal was probably based upon the soon…August 13, 2016 Visitors Association, which Tosi spent the following winter gruesome O’Brien murders. The celebrated the works of the at the tiny mining community real O’Brien hid in the snow- We are hoping everyone will bring at least one thing… great author. My modest part in that sprang up at the mouth covered bush and murdered to get a 1000 things! (fruit, veggies, plants) the event was to join in a short of the Stewart River, the very three men who were walking Call Helen Dewell 993–6736 or Tarie Castellarin 993–6441 for more information discussion about Jack London same place that London later out over the frozen Yukon YOOP Lodge #1 sponsored event that caused me to explore my spent his short, but eventful River the winter of 1899. He own connection to the great winter in the north. shoved their bodies into a hole author. Father Robeau appears in in the river ice, but with some Almost thirty years ago, another of London’s stories, remarkable detective work, the I aspired to write my first “The Priestly Prerogative,” Mounted Police were able to book of Yukon history. For which describes some piece together the events of the inspiration, I turned to the stampeders who spend the case. works of other authors and read winter at Yukon Crossing, the O’Brien was tried, and on the Enjoy food by Little Thai Bell at Bombay Peggy’s Pub about their struggles to become end of the Dalton Trail. There, basis of the evidence that had writers. One of these authors they make their fortune, not been carefully gathered, was From 5pm everyday except Friday was Jack London, and his semi- by mining gold, but rather by convicted of the three murders Aloha Tacos on Fridays at Happy Hour autobiographical work, “Martin parceling up the cast-off offal and was eventually hanged. (867) 993-6969 Eden.” from Klondike-bound cattle Similarly, North made the www.BombayPeggys.com My first book focused upon that were butchered along connection of the story “The the early prospecting and the banks of the Yukon River, League of Old Men” to the THE KLONDIKE SUN WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 2016 P7
Art gallery partnership launches in Carcross with support from Yukon government
ment Corporation is very excited about the cultural and economic opportunities created by the new gallery at Carcross Com- mons,” chief executive officer Nelson Lepine said. “The project supports cultural tourism, Friends of the strengthens community part- nerships, offers training for Ab- original artists and youth, and Klondike Corridor advances the business poten- invites you to attend: Press Release tial that exists in the Carcross region.” can purchase artwork online The project was initiated by WHITEHORSE (July 14) —A from Yukon galleries or directly Southern Lakes Artist Collec- Go Klondike Legacy Day new gallery dedicated to the from the artist. Featured artists tive (SLAC) co-founder Lawrie promotion of Yukon visual are providing demonstrations of Crawford. SLAC is a group of August 7, 2016 art and artists has opened at their skills at the gallery as well. professional artists who work in Carcross Commons. Art House The Yukon Arts Centre Cor- a variety of art media. Members 1:00 - 4:00 Carcross is a partnership be- poration (YACC) is a non-profit are knowledgeable about Yukon tween the Yukon Arts Centre charitable organization that art and art techniques and are Dawson city, Yukon staffing the gallery. Corporation, Carcross Tagish works to develop the cultural, Music, Cake, Living History Management Corporation and social and economic benefits “The Southern Lakes Art- the Southern Lakes Artist Col- of arts in the territory. YACC’s ist Collective team is in a great Tours of Bear Creek lective. role in the project is to jury and position to provide information “The Government of Yukon is curate the work shown in the and tell stories of the artists, the Re-opening of Gold Room pleased to support this initiative, gallery. community and the land,” Craw- which will further strengthen “The Yukon Arts Centre is ford said. “This gallery space and diversify our economy and thrilled to work with Carcross/ lays the foundation to build a BearAt BCreekear Creek Natl. HCeleistorical Cobmratpound ion the visual arts industry itself,” Tagish First Nation, Yukon vibrant arts scene in Carcross.” Minister of Economic Develop- government and Southern Visitors to the gallery can ment Stacey Hassard said. “This Lakes Artist Collective to open a access the Yukon government’s new space allows Yukon artists unique art space to promote the Art Adventures on Yukon Time More info at: to showcase export-ready prod- amazing and diverse visual art- guide to connect with more than ucts, develop business skills, and ists in our territory,” YAC gallery 150 Yukon artists, art retailers www.KlondikeCorridor.org promote their art to regional, director Mary Bradshaw said. and public art attractions. national, and international visi- The Carcross Tagish Manage- The Yukon government is tors of Carcross.” ment Corporation (CTMC), the providing $75,100 over two Visitors can view the artworks economic development branch of years for the project through the on display and, using digital the Carcross/Tagish First Nation Strategic Industries Develop- tools, discover more about (CTFN), is an important partner ment Fund. Yukon artists, their work and in the gallery project. other art attractions. Visitors “Carcross Tagish Manage- P8 WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 2016 THE KLONDIKE SUN
CPAWS Yukon calls on Premiers to Protect CFYT Radiothon Sets Record Canada’s Wilderness and Fight Climate Change Peter Menzies is growing facial Press Release mining and oil and gas extraction, hair courtesy of the Radiothon. WHITEHORSE – As Canada’s they can actually become sources While on air, volunteers teased thirteen territorial and provincial of carbon emissions, and their Menzies about growing a Premiers meet in Whitehorse ability to shelter humans and moustache. Within minutes, this week to collaborate on all species from the impacts of Garry Gammie parked in front of issues of national importance, climate change is diminished. the station, walked into the studio CPAWS Yukon is calling on our Next to habitat loss, climate and said that he would “….donate nation’s leaders to implement change is also the biggest threat $300 if Peter doesn’t shave till strong action on climate change, to wildlife and biodiversity, with November and Paul Derry has to including emissions reductions 20-30% of species at increased match me!” Within 20 minutes and protection of Canada’s risk of extinction. Conservation CFYT personality Paul Robatille wilderness. corridors will be especially At their last meetings important for protecting nature negotiated a deal and Derry had in Vancouver in March, that is ‘on the move’ as a result of matched the donation! “Just like governments agreed to create climate change. the old days!”, laughed Derry. a pan-Canadian framework for The Peel Watershed is a prime All funds will be used for clean growth and climate change, example of how climate change operational costs such as which would include actions and nature protection are telephone, power, rent and to limit temperature increase interlinked. The boreal forest of insurance. and foster resilience to climate the Peel helps mitigate climate CFYT is mid-way through its change. In order to achieve these change by sequestering carbon, modernization plan. The studio goals, steps to reduce greenhouse and the region also serves as has been renovated and a new gas emissions will need to be the northern anchor of a wildlife broadcast console (mixing board) taken quickly and our ecosystems corridor that would stretch will need to be protected. CPAWS from Yellowstone National installed. YTG’s Community Yukon urges Canada’s premiers Park in the United States to Development Fund support made to look at the creation of more the Yukon, providing refuge for the console a reality back in provincial, territorial and marine species that are displaced by March, 2016. The new equipment protected areas as the backbone climate change. CPAWS Yukon greatly expands CFYT’s capacity of a climate adaptation strategy. is working alongside the Yukon to broadcast and record. For Chris Rider, Executive Director Conservation Society, the First Story by CFYT Directors with studio renovations and example, CFYT broadcast and of CPAWS Yukon stated, “In the Nation of Na-Cho Nyak Dun, the the Radiothon. The goal is to recorded the “Klondike Cabiin fight against climate change, Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in and Vuntut help establish the Radiothon Companion” on June 24 and 25, conservation needs to be a Gwitchin First Nation to protect As of the5488.48 newspaper setting deadline, a new as a significant fundraiser to 2016. The radio play has been cornerstone of our efforts. Nature the Peel from major industrial record.CFYT’s Annual“Our goal Radiothon was $5000.00 has help ensure CFYT’s long-term posted on CFYT’s web site. A is essential for both reducing development that would damage soraised we’re $ thrilled!”, said Treasurer sustainability. “A corporate our vulnerability to the impacts its ecological value, including in rebroadcast of the play is planned Peter Menzies. sponsor motivates volunteers that are already happening, and the fight against climate change. for August built sometime within The Corporate Challenge is and ensures that the Radiothon is mitigating climate change in the Rider concluded: “Canada is very the Riverside Arts Festival. largely responsible for the record. well implemented and reported”, future.” fortunate to have vast wilderness The CFYT leadership and Great River Air initiated the commented President Ben Rudis. Natural areas provide a necessary areas that ensure we have clean volunteers extend their gratitude service by storing the carbon that air and water, provide habitat challenge as part of their three- “It’s a big deal.” to everyone. Events like this show it emitted into the atmosphere. In for incredible biodiversity, and year sponsorship agreement with Along with the above, Great that everyone can play a role in fact, Canada’s Boreal forest stores support our economy. CPAWS CFYT. Businesses were asked to River Air donated a sight seeing helping keep non-profit groups about 186 billion tons of carbon, Yukon encourages Canada’s donate cash as well as services. flight – the main draw prize for vibrant. It’s also a chance for the mostly within soils and peatlands. Premiers to remember that The Challenge raised $2800.00 the event. Seventeen (17) other non-profit sector to acknowledge But as these ecosystems are protecting nature is also an with the remaining $2688.48 businesses and clubs donated the important role local business altered by climate change or essential part of the climate coming through cash donations at almost $1000 worth of draw converted to other uses such as change solution.” plays in the health of clubs and the station and on-line payments. prizes, gift certificates and the community. Over the three years 2015 merchandise. – 17, Great River Air is helping Northern premiers confirm united stance against carbon price Subscribe to The Klondike Sun! Press Release Only $44 per year! (visit klondikesun.com for details) WHITEHORSE—The premiers of Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut are once again stating that the implementation of a carbon tax would have a negative impact on the quality of life in the North. Further, Canada’s climate change goals must be conducted in a way that does not negatively impact northern costs of living, undermine food security or threaten emerging economies. Climate change is having a disproportionate effect on northern communities and Northerners are already having to invest significant amounts of money for adaptation and to fix infrastructure affected by climate change. In addition to those impacts and costs, Northern premiers noted that all three territories are doing their part and have taken significant actions towards emissions reduction, cleaner energy production, technology and innovation. Recognizing the significant effect climate change is having on northern communities, territorial premiers reiterated their commitment to address climate change. In fact, the three territories have already launched a Pan-Territorial Adaptation Strategy and are taking actions to reduce their environmental footprints. “A carbon tax doesn’t work in the North. Instead of imposing a made-in-the-South tax on Northerners, Canada should work collaboratively with the territories to help us implement climate solutions that reflect the realities of Northern communities,” Yukon Premier Darrell Pasloski said. “We as territorial premiers must ensure the economic impacts of our climate solutions create jobs, not kill jobs.” Northern premiers want to ensure that detailed economic assessments are completed on any new national initiatives on climate change, including analysis specifically on possible impacts to territorial economies and Northern families. “A national carbon pricing strategy could not be viable in the NWT unless it alleviates or compensates for the high cost of living and doing business in the North,” Northwest Territories Premier Bob MacLeod said. “Until there are economically-viable alternatives, carbon pricing mechanisms will not significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the NWT.” “A national approach to a proposed carbon tax has to take into account the unique nature of our Northern territories. Nunavut is already the most expensive place to live and do business anywhere in Canada,” said Nunavut Premier Peter Taptuna. THE KLONDIKE SUN WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 2016 P9 Little Gold and Silver Canoes a coveted Award for Solo Racers
Perpetual motion helps create solid silver and gold canoes to recognize the top three paddlers in three solo classes. The canoes are engraved with "YRQ" with the year of the race. They are mounted on chains, to be worn proudly. Front Street). Andrew works all beat all those athletic guys in winter to supply all three stores a kayak! At that point, I was so for the busy seasons, creating inspired by Wilcox’s efforts, I and growing. decided to help in recognizing Andrew makes little canoe all point athletes’ outstanding replica pendants for the top performance. Story and Photos three solo finishers for three The awards are solid gold by Josée Bonhomme classes in the Yukon River canoes for first place, with gold proud persons. There is also Quest: canoeing (sitting on the chains, silver canoes with gold a complicated technical side, gunwales), C-1 (kneeling in a nuggets for second place, and knowing how to work with canoe), and K-1 (kayak, legs solid silver canoes for third Andrew Kuczynski is a Master different precious metals, extended with pedals, much place. It’s our seventh year Jeweller with much talent and stones and gems, it’s almost like more comfortable, and safe). now supporting the race. I am heart. In Poland, Kuczynski’s a small welding enterprise with When asked why he chose that thinking I should do this till homeland, it takes fully six an added “de rigueur” degree in event to sponsor, he humbly I die, or go out of business… CFYT Radio years to complete three years Geology. and thoughtfully replies: “Our whichever comes first. It’s The Spirit of Dawson of apprenticeship, plus three The occupation of goldsmith, new store was at the finish important. For example, Ingrid CFYT Radio would like to thank its years of mastering. An exam silversmith, lasts year-round line in 2007, and these athletes Wilcox has more than one such sponsors and volunteers for all of must be passed to achieve the for Alexandra and Andrew would wander into the shop, awards.” the support during the 2016 Mastership recognition to be a Kuczynski. After a busy looking happy and healthy. A sample of the solid gold and Radiothon jeweller. summer in Dawson, with two They were not the Arnold silver canoes is shown in the After 42 years in the trade, stores to supply with different Schwarzeneggers I expected. I photo (top right). Andrew’s Together we raised over $5,000! he says, “I am still learning, appeal points for our varied was impressed with everyone’s hands were working fast when making new designs, trying market, the Kuczynskis retreat courage, the strength and skills working on one of those, but Corporate Challenge different styles, gems or stones, to Brittania Beach on the required for such an epic event. you can see it’s a work of love, (Cash donations $100 or more) adapting to market tastes and Sea to Sky Highway, north of The average age of competitors and dexterity, with an added Great River Air trends.” He says this while Vancouver. That store is called also struck me, and that’s when touch of talent and advanced Bonanza Market working incessantly, this time “Gold Trail Jewellers“, the two I met Ingrid Wilcox. design. A complicated process, Gammie Trucking on an elegant new and original local stores in Dawson are “Gold She was in her sixties I think, indeed. Lamerton Land Surveys ring design. Jewellery making is Trail Jewellers” and “The Rock” a little woman, not humongous, The Gold Trail’s link posted on Groundtruth definitely an art, one “creates” (big rock outside, can’t miss it, but fit, and she managed to the Yukon River Quest’s website Eldorado Hotel Government,pieces, to be worn byhospital lucky, collaborateand the building to is increase YELLOW, on access to continuing care/acuteis http://www.goldtrail.ca. care beds Dawson City General Store Press Release Dick’s Dust Danoja Zho Cultural Centre at home through Home Care immediately,” Nixon added. opened Birch Lodge in fall 2015, Westminster Hotel WHITEHORSE (July 18) Services have been accessing “The space does require minor adding 10 beds to continuing Dawson Hardware —Working together, the hospital beds. This has resulted renovations, and we anticipate care; the opening of the new Dancing Moose Government of Yukon, the in some postponed surgeries that these beds will be available McDonald Lodge in Dawson 9th Avenue Printing Yukon Hospital Corporation, and increased pressure on for occupancy by October.” increased the bed count there Aurora Inn doctors and nurses have hospital staff, as a significant “We welcome the by four, from 11 to 15. Juliette’s Manor Bed and Brunch developed a plan to address number of acute-care beds are government’s commitment and The new 150-bed continuing Chris Healey hospital bed shortages. occupied by patients awaiting support as we work to ensure care facility in Whistle Bend This plan, developed placement in long-term care. Yukoners receive the best will open in early 2018. Prize Support collectively, will free up Minister of Health and Social possible care,” Yukon Hospital hospital beds, create 10 new Services Mike Nixon said the Corporation Board of Trustees Triple JJJ Hotel continuing-care beds, and partners have identified five chair Craig Tuton said. “For MV Klondike Spirit alleviate staffing challenges. key areas that will improve the our team, these are significant Klondike Kate’s It will reduce pressures on the situation for all. measures because we can Peabody’s Photo Parlour hospital, staff and patients “We are immediately expect to see a reduction in Subscribe to the Pan of Gold Pizza while the new Whistle Bend increasing home care, with the next three months in the Maximilians facility is under construction. greater support available on number of patients in hospital KLONDIKE Jimmy’s Place The Yukon government is n evenings and weekends to awaiting long-term care, and Ray of Sunshine budgeting up to $5 million for augment hours of complex the opening of additional Castlerock Canoe the plan. care,” Nixon said. “In addition, continuing care beds in two SUN Juliette’s Manor Bed and Brunch “All parties have been continuing-care staff will now years will bring us to a more Husky Bus working diligently on ways to supplement care and support manageable level on an ongoing alleviate the increased demands to long-term care patients in basis.” CIBC on both the hospital and on hospital through programming. The Yukon government has Klondike Institute of Arts and continuing-care beds,” Premier These changes will better also committed to helping WGH Culture Darrell Pasloski said today. enable hospital staff to focus on create four ‘holding beds.’ This Visit Dawson City Music Festival “The Whistle Bend facility is the acute-care patients.” measure does not increase Society long-term solution. Taking these The biggest aid will be the number of beds, but does Klondikesun.com Visitor Reception Centre steps will improve the situation reopening of a 10-bed unit in mean fewer patients are held Klondike Visitors Association until the time that vital facility Thomson Centre currently in emergency while awaiting for details Diamond Tooth Gertie’s is up and running.” occupied by departmental and admission for treatment and Yukon’s 193 continuing-care hospital staff. recovery. beds are full, and individuals “Relocation of staff will begin The Government of Yukon who cannot be maintained P10 WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 2016 THE KLONDIKE SUN The Klondike Mines Railway re-opens in Dawson
Story and Photos By Dan Davidson After that, he began work in the VIC. on the KMR project. His Gary Parker, who was still version assumes that the line the Executive Director of the The Klondike Mines did not shut down in 1913, Klondike Visitors Association Railway (KMR) began but continued operations (KVA) until late in June, operations at the Visitors as had been planned out noted that getting the KMR Information Centre (VIC) on to 1949. While Pate earlier to Dawson wasn’t really a Front Street on July 19. donated his Dredge model project that anyone had in Well, that’s not quite right. to the VIC, the KMR project mind when the possibility What was revealed, after has come to Dawson because first came up, but that the brief ribbon cutting Pate has moved to smaller various stakeholders – YTG’s ceremony, was about quarters and no longer has Tourism Dept., Parks Canada, half of the reconstructed space for it. the KVA, and the Dawson City KMR that Dr. Brian Pate The completed model is Museum – came together to and a dedicated group of far too large to be able to make it work. model railway enthusiasts fit in the available space “Using up all the puns,” he have been building in the at the VIC, so Dawson has said,” we got everybody on basement of his North inherited about half of the board, didn’t let the project Vancouver home for the last line, including the town’s derail, and now it’s full steam two decades. waterfront re-creation, ahead.” The KMR operated in the Klondike City, Bear Creek and The following link is to early heyday of the Klondike part of the goldfields. Several a website that describes Gold Fields, between 1905 of Pate’s model railroad the project in lots of detail: and 1913, after which the comrades made a couple of http://www3.telus.net/ corporate mining era’s trips to Dawson to assemble KMR/. dredges reduced the need for the display and get it ready This YouTube video, such a service. In all, there to run. made in 2015, shows the were 31 miles of track when “It’s a fantastic model entire project in operation, the railway shut down and of one of Dawson’s most on a ride in 2008 that take its engines were put into overlooked historic periods,” about 25 minutes to watch. storage. said Museum Executive https://www.youtube.com/ Several of them are on Director Alex Somerville, as watch?v=r6NTJtVQRmI display in the train shelter he assembled the partners in beside the Dawson City the relocation project for a - Museum. Clockwise from top left: (1) The train chugs past Dredge No. 5. (2) Ribbon ribbon cutting ceremony. cutting, with Parks Canada’s Anna Claxton and Mike Perry, Gary Parker Aside from his former “This model risked (former Executive Director of the Klondike Visitors Association), Peggy day job as a nuclear destruction, like most model Amendola, with the Dawson VIC, and Alex Somerville, Executive Director of physicist researcher with train layouts actually do. They the Dawson City Museum. (3) A portion of the Bear Creek Compound. (4) The train pulls into the downtown area, with the SS Keno in the river. the University of British are someone’s life’s work and Columbia, Pate has been a then they end up in the local dedicated model maker, and dump. This one is so special, took an interest in things and Dr. Pate is a victim of the Klondike after his daughter, spell of the Klondike.” Sue Dragoman, moved here Pate’s friends managed with her husband, Clair, in to disassemble it from its the late 1980s. basement home, crate it, ship His first project was it, and carefully reassemble it an award winning Model of Dredge No. 4, which currently resides in the main room of the VIC. An account of his 1994 triumph can be found in the October, 1994, edition of National Model Railroad’s Seventh Division Bulletin Board, online at: http:// www.7divpnr.ca/sites/ default/files/Bulletin%20 Board/1994/1994%20 October%20BB-rotated.pdf. THE KLONDIKE SUN WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 2016 P11
Mother-Daughter Team Creates a Colouring Book for Adults
“Both people had to be happy with it,” she said. “When we took it to the printer, we had an original that was exactly how we wanted the page to look.” “This collaboration allows us to provide a book where every page has received the utmost attention and thought,” said Elaine. “Colouring can not only Raven’sprovide Colours some much needed stress release and fun, but is a high quality book that may also evolve your Raven’s Colours –Taiga, is a and northern Eurasia stopping artistic abilities should you By Dan Davidson 41 page spiral-bound colouring just below the Arctic zone. want some extra challenge!” Photos supplied book (so it can lie flat) printed The creation of the book was recalled, ”she was always telling The pair have promoted the on 70 pound paper, so that the a lot more work than either of me that I should do a colouring book on their Facebook page finished product can look really them had thought it would be book as early as Grade 4. I had (https://www.facebook.com/ good. . They’d intended to finish it Colouring books for adults are actually started working on one Ravenscolour) where they have Elaine says the idea is to use in time for possible Christmas all the rage these days. This sort (in high school, years later). I also displayed some colour pencil crayons, but she could sales, but at anywhere from ten of project is not exactly what had maybe 14 pages done and pages that fans of the book have see people doing the one-sided to 20 hours per page, it took Elaine Henderson had in mind then I got bored.” emailed to them. It is listed on pages with markers or perhaps longer than that. years ago when she encouraged Elaine is a painter and the Indigo/Chapters website even water colours. The detail Kyley would provide the her daughter, Kyley, to develop sculptor herself, in addition as being available in certain in the book does resemble that creature, showing it doing her talents as an artist, but it is to her day job as a custodial stores and it is available through provided in paint-by-number something interesting. Then what the mother-daughter team worker, an occupation that her Amazon. kits to a certain extent. Elaine would lay tracing paper spent the winter creating, while daughter also shares, so it was If sales are good enough to make It was a true collaboration, over the image and experiment Elaine was living with Kyley in no wonder she kept encouraging back the printing costs, they with Kyley drawing the animals with various habitats until Magrath, near Lethbridge. the art, and brought it up again have another volume already in and birds and Elaine providing she got something that was It was Elaine’s first winter while she was staying there. mind. the appropriate habitat for each accurate and looked good. out of the Yukon in many years Kyley pulled out the material creature. The Taiga biome is Each of them went through a and it wasn’t too ling before she had in storage, and one the world’s largest terrestrial number of traced layers until she returned to a theme her thing led to another. None of biome covering areas across they got what they wanted. daughter had heard a lot while that original material, aimed North America and Eurasia, Then a light box allowed Kyley she was growing up. more for children, made it into and so the 41 animals and birds to combine everything into one ‘When I was a kid,” Kyley the final product. come from all across Canada final drawing. P12 WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 2016 THE KLONDIKE SUN
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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, JULY 27, 2016 THE KLONDIKE SUN
Scots of the Yukon, Part 1: The Writers By James A. McQuiston Recollections
book is entitled , pioneer, though grizzled, its misery by his own partners ing stories of Jack London and was hale and hearty, and as Mickey O’Brien and Joe Ladue. Jack McQuesten. and the original hand-written Robert Service In 2007, while traveling to pages are held by the Yu- optimistic as when he first This is only one example of the Another very significant Dawson City, Yukon, and on kon Archives in Whitehorse, journeyed into the land along memories of Jack McQuesten into Alaska, I was struck by Canada. the path of the Circle. And no becoming the stories of Jack the great number of signifi- McQuesten’s name appears man more beloved is there, in London. cant mentions made of Scot- in a book by Duncan Bruce, all the North. There will be If it was London’s intent to tish names. I discovered that entitled The Mark of the Scots. great sadness there when his write tales of life on the Yukon the twenty-five years preced- His story has been told in two soul goes questing on over the River, he could find no man ing the Klondike Gold Rush separate issues of Highlander Last Divide – ‘farther north,’ more qualified to help him saw Scots involved in many magazine, and he has even perhaps – who can tell?” than the gold rush millionaire, Jack London is most cred- Captain Jack McQuesten. aspects of Yukon River life been immortalized as the Jack London through gold mining and the inspiration for the whiskey ited with bringing the story While in the Yukon, Jack fur trade, and also through known as Yukon Jack®. London carved his name in transportation improvements During my stay in Dawson I the gold-mining cabin where and community building. met with many Yukon histo- he was staying. He wrote on Many of these Scots have had rians. These modern-day au- a log in the back of the cabin, their accomplishments buried thors arranged for the meeting “Jack London, Miner, Author, with the passage of time, and because they knew that Jack’s Jan. 27, 1898.” In the 1940’s, through the overshadowing of story needed to be written. Jack MacKenzie (the last man Klondike-mania. Our group met in the shad- to deliver mail by dogsled in I was in Dawson to carry out ows of the gold-mining cabin the Yukon) cut the signature research for a book I wrote on of American author Jack Lon- out of the wall. Later, Dick North facilitated moving part author of Yukon life was the the only man everCaptain to be called Jack: don. Nearby, stood the home of of the cabin to Dawson City poet Robert Service. Service Father of the YukonYukon. The ac- the great Yukon poet, Robert tual book title is Service, and the home of the and served as director of Jack was born of a Scottish family. , available premier Yukon historian, London’s Cabin and Interpre- His father was a banker from on Amazon and elsewhere. Pierre Berton. There could tive Centre, there. Kilwinning, Scotland, who had What I learned while re- be no way for me to be more I was lucky enough to meet been transferred to England. Mr. North before he passed At age five the poet was sent searching Captain Jack is that immersed in the history of the Continued on page 19 men of Scottish descent drove Great White North except per- away, and listened to many of back to Scotland to live with much of the Yukon River Gold haps to have been a gold-miner of Yukon life to the general his tales of the Yukon, includ- Rush, one of the most roman- there, during that famous era. public. Many scholars of this tic periods in North American Captain Jack spent twenty- man believe his true father to history. This discovery has led five years along the Yukon be William Chaney. Chaney me to the conclusion that Scots pursuing the theory that is, of course, a well-known played one of the most signifi- – “When everyone else is Scottish name. This particular cant roles in the exploration digging for gold, be the one Chaney was an astrologer who of the Yukon River Valley. In selling the shovels.” impregnated London’s mother support of this conclusion He grubstaked a great and then asked her to abort I present three important number of the miners of that the child. She refused, and he proofs – they being authors, era, including the man who disavowed any connection to landmarks, and discoveries. made the famous Klondike Jack London, who later took discovery. He skippered nearly the surname of his stepfather, Let’s begin with four famous every early steamboat on the John London. Yukon Gold Rush authors. Yukon River, and recorded the Like London, Jack Mc- The confluence of the Yukon very first weather records of Questen’s father was also River and the Klondike River the Yukon for Edward Nelson named John. And like Wil- was ground zero in a phenom- of the Smithsonian Institu- liam Chaney, Jack McQuesten enon that has seen millions of tion –records that appeared descended from William dollars in gold being discov- in an early issue of National McQuesten who immigrated to ered, even today. Facing the Geographic Magazine. Jack America from Scotland. juncture of these two famous obtained over 200 bird and This pair of Jacks had much rivers stands a large stone animal specimens for the in common. It has been said with a brass plaque mounted Smithsonian and estab- that they left the Yukon to- to it – a plaque dedicated to lished Fort Nelson in honor gether on the same freighter. the only man to ever be called of this explorer. In just one They moved to within ten “Father of the Yukon.” Even of his many mentions of Jack, miles of each other, and Lon- First Nations members in this Nelson writes, “To Mr. L. N. don attended writing classes area referred to him as “Injun McQuesten I am under obliga- at the University of California Papa.” tions for many specimens from at Berkeley, located only one the Upper Yukon.” and a half miles from Jack Mc- Captain Jack was well- Questen’s home. thought of by nearly everyone Evidence shows that Lon- he met, including Jack London, don received inspiration and who received many of his tales actual stories from McQuesten of the North directly from over a period of years. He did McQuesten. London mentions not publish any Yukon stories the McQuesten name in four until he had moved close to novels and four short stories, McQuesten in California. Lon- including his very first novel don even based at least two ever, called A Daughter Of The short stories directly on the Snows, as well as in his best persona of Captain Jack. Some of London’s tales are Jack McQuesten selling novel of all time, en- titled Burning Daylight, and in slightly adjusted retellings of Call Of The Wild, the book that stories that Captain Jack had made him world famous. already written in his Callown Of His name was Leroy Napo- In Burning Daylight, London Thediary Wild of his days along the big leon McQuesten, known by speaks of Jack McQuesten as river. For instance, in family and friends as Captain one of the most significant London tells how the Jack. men in the Yukon. He also hero-dog Buck mercifully kills Captain Jack McQuesten states, in another essay enti- a bear whose eyes had been wrote one of the earliest ac- tled Gold Hunters of the North, ravaged by insects. This same counts of life along the Yukon that: “In 1898 the writer met story was considered one of River during its period of Jack McQuestion at Minook Jack McQuesten’s favorite discovery and settlement. His on the Lower Yukon. The old tales, only in his true-to-life version the bear was put out of THE KLONDIKE SUN WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 2016 P19 Scots of the Yukon, Part 1: The Pierre Berton Klondike Writers Continued from page 18 and historians of the Yukon, having lived for 25 years on an island in the middle of the Yu- Outreach his paternal grandfather. He ily names. kon River, near Dawson. They attended Glasgow's Hillhead Only a few short years be- have been associated with the High School and afterwards fore Captain Jack McQuesten area for 50 years while writ- joined the Commercial Bank headed to the Yukon, the Job Board ing several significant reports of Scotland, which would later Canadian Bank of Commerce for both the Alaskan and Yu- Open Positions: become the Royal Bank of came under the control of the kon governments. Ed is of part Scotland. Eventually, he left Merchant’s Bank of Canada – Scottish-blood and actually for North America, and after a bank founded by Sir Hugh spoke Gaelic as a child. Automotive Mechanic much travel he found himself Allan, born at Saltcoats, Ayr- Pierre BertonAll That wrote Glitters, the Birch Syrup & Forest Farm living in Dawson City, Yukon, shire, Scotland. Allan’s wife foreword for Ed and Star and becoming known as the was the Scots-blooded Jean Assistant Jones’ book “Bard of the Yukon.” Crawford, his first cousin was Camp Cook & 2nd Cook about the founding of Dawson Two of his most famous po- the Scotsman Sir Alexander Cooks – various City. Ed and Star wrote the ems are about Scotsmen, they Galt, one of the premier fa- writing books and producing Cooks Helper/Cleaner foreword for my book on Cap- being "The Shooting of Dan thers of the Canadian Confed- documentaries on Canadian Custodial Staff tain Jack. McGrew" and "The Cremation eration, and his first cousin, history, especially the Yukon Dealer Next is Rod Perry, the pre- of Sam McGee.” one generation removed, was Gold Rush. I Mar- mier historian of the Iditarod Driver/Guide It has been noted that Ser- the famous Scottish poet Rob- Berton’s mother also became ried The Klondike dog sled races. Rod filed the Early Childhood Educators vice would have had a tough bie Burns. famous for her book very first news release on this Equipment Operators time earning a living through Allan’s bank had close ties . She moved famous race many years ago Expediter writing poetry, while living with the Royal Bank of Scot- to Dawson as a schoolteacher, and has written a two-volume Front Desk Clerks amongst a group of hard- land, showing that there was a where she married Pierre’s set of the history of the race, General Manager nosed miners in the middle of definite Scottish force behind father. Her maiden name was Trailblazers, which is now nowhere. In fact, before head- the financing of the Yukon Thompson and she, too, was Grocery Clerk being made into a documen- ing to the Yukon, Service again Gold Rush, including at least Scottish. Heavy Duty Mechanic tary. Rod is of Scots blood as is entered the banking business some connections to both the All four of these important Heavy Equipment or our next modern author, Cass through employment with the Royal Bank of Scotland and Yukon authors had Scottish Automotive Technician Wright, an avid dog musher Canadian Bank of Commerce, the Bank of Scotland, along blood in their veins. Jack Housekeepers/Room and author of many Scottish which had branches in White- with several influential Scot- McQuesten’s book Recollec- clan histories, who has fed me Attendants horse and Dawson, Yukon. tish families. Robert Service, tions, along with Jack London’s stories of Captain Jack that Janitor The Canadian bank had, as its having been employed by both books and short stories, Rob- he had heard, first-hand, in Labourers agent in Scotland, the Bank of banks, seems possibly to have ert Service’s poems, and Pierre saloons along the Yukon, while Laundry/Housekeeper Scotland, which is said to be been the perfect “front man” Berton’s histories, together purchasing Malamute sled Lifeguard & Lifeguard the oldest bank in Scotland. to keep an eye on Scottish-led make up some of the best dogs. Instructors The Canadian Bank of Com- banking interests in the gold information of that era and I join with these three great merce was founded by the fields, while outwardly car- region available, even today. Liquor Store Clerk Scots-blooded authors in Scots-blooded William McMas- rying on his “occupation” as a In more modern times, three Live-in Nanny keeping trying to keep alive ter, whose family had come to poet. great storytellers of the Yukon Medical Office Assistant/ the Scottish influence in the America from Scotland by way Finally, Pierre Berton, in his are dear friends of mine, and Receptionist recording of Yukon River his- of a stop in Northern Ireland. lifetime, was named the most all have Scottish blood in their Medication Dispensary tory. McMaster’s first wife was a famous man in Canada. He veins. Ed Jones, along with To be continued in future issues. 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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 architecture Knowledge of municipal issues regarding development and land use planning Knowledge of the construction industry.
Submissions must be received by 5:00pm Thursday, the 31st of July, 2014 at the City office. If you or anyone you know is interested or needs more information, please contact Micah Olesh at the City of Dawson, 993-7400 ext. 414.
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