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in this Klondike Constituency Issue Yukon Party Noah Richler Talks p. 2 First World War and the North p. 6 Coffee House donations to NGOs p. 9 Meet the youth We are now in some Noah Richler talks about his Last week's WWI conference Monthly open mic Saturdays have caucus at the father's connection to the North. dealt with history and produced good music and charity. hotel rooms. What a consequences. 2016 Gold Show great idea! Come visit our
See and Do 2 Jack London Festival Coming 5 Sustainable Agriculture supported 9 History Hunter Explores WWI tunes 18 booth. Tourism Surveys in the works 3 The Bones of the Klondike 7 TV Guide 12-16 Classifieds & Job Board 19 Uffish Thoughts: Firefighting Roles 4 Rental Housing Project approved 9 20 Years Ago in the Sun 17 City Notices 20 P2 WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 2016 THE KLONDIKE SUN Noah Richler talks about growing up with Mordecai What to and his Northern Connection Story & Photo SEE and DO By Dan Davidson “The Yukon is very dear in dawson now: to me,” Noah Richler told his audience at the Old Fire Hall on the evening of April 22. “I This free public service helps our readers find their way through sort of came of age here one the many activities all over town. Any small happening may need crazy summer, and that was all preparation and planning, so let us know in good time! To join this wrapped up in my father’s visit Meetingslisting contact the office at [email protected]. here.” That would be explained later. IODE DAWSON CITY: “I spent time Whitehorse 10 years ago and 40 years Meet first Wednesday of each month at ago, when the Capital was home of Janice Cliff at 7:30 p.m. For info call Janice Cliff, 993-2908. Royal Canadian Legion Branch #1: the booming spot and the Recess for summer July-October. boring jobs were working for Meet first Thursday government, and the town Peachioneer month W ato mLegionen o fHall th (3rde Yuk andon King: St.) at 7:30 p.m. Contacts emptied out in summer when Noah Richler at the Old Fire Hall. Helen Bowie, 993-5526, Myrna Butterworth, 993-5353. the bush camps filled.” Meet third Thursday each Richler’s experience of month at 7:30 p.m. at Legion Hall. Contact Myrna Butterworth, the North is so bonded with in the Cassiar Mountains, well probably ended up being a 993-5353.Klondike Recess Institute for summer of Art June, and July Culture and Aug. (KIAC) memories of his father that away from the influence of his writer because his father was. coming here could not help but Drop-in Painting Montreal friends. It does seem to have been the make him a bit melancholy. “It was the summer than case with all his siblings as well. : Saturdays, 1-4 p.m., $5 drop-in at the KIAC Richler senior died in changed my life, really.” But he told his audience that he Classroom (enter through the back door). Inspire and be inspired July 2001, and Noah still Mordecai had come to the spent years trying to avoid it, finds himself missing the Yukon earlier to write a book and got very little advice from Hatby otherha Yartists.oga wit Bringh Jyouroanne own V ideasan N andostrand painting: surfaces. Paints, brushes & easels are supplied, no instruction offered. opportunities he felt he should about Martin Hartwell, the his dad. have taken to ask his dad bush pilot who was forced to On one occasion, there was a Mondays: 6:45-8 questions about his life and p.m., Thursdays: 5:45-7 p.m. & Saturdays 9-10:30 a.m. In the KIAC survive a crash in the North critique of a very steamy letter what he made of the world. He Ballroom. For more info or to register for classes, please contact by consuming the remains of Noah had written to a girlfriend, admits, though, that it might JoanneDawson Van CityNostrand Community at [email protected]. Library one of his dead passengers. In which he had spilled something not have done much good, as preparation Mordecai travelled on and made the mistake of REGULAR hours Mordecai was not one to sit and the North with Yukon court leaving on the kitchen table commune with his children. judge Hank Madison, and to dry overnight. His father : Monday to Friday, noon - 6:30 p.m. Noah says he learned more planned not only the book, but appropriated the letter and Reading/Presentation by Berton House Writer-in-Residence listening to his father chatting a slew of magazine articles. quizzed his teenage son as to SHAUNTAY GRANT Monday, May 30 at 7:00 PM Yukon School of Visual Arts with other writers and adults After much research and a whether he had considered than he did from him directly. meeting with the notorious all the implications of letting Chamber of Commerce Specific advice seemed pilot, he decided that there was that missive circulate. Socratic Chamber Meetings: to come in pithy remarks. no moral profit to be found in reasoning having failed, he Commenting on a relationship writing that book. advised him that a certain Regular meetings on the second Wednes- of Noah’s that was souring, “No good will come of it,” word had been overused in the dayTown of each Council month at the Downtown Hotel. Mordecai told him that Noah recalls him saying. writing, and that using it just relationships required working Council Meetings: Inspired by the North, once was stronger than using it on, and that he’d had to work however, finding in it the four times to get Noah’s mother; it hadn’t There is no longer a fixed routine schedule Solomonlandscape Gursky and the was themes Here that The evening was promoted been easy. of Council and Committee of the Whole (COW)meetings. Check the he prized, he ended up penning as “My Father, The Raven” “It was my father who Post Office or the City of Dawson website for long range planning. some and Noah spent some time greased the way for my first years later. establishing the trickster-like Next Council Meetings are May 31 and June 21. visit here,” he said, but went on Next COW meetings are June 14 & 28. Noah still admires his father nature of hisGursky father’s work, to admit that it was basically a for turning away from writing especially, but not only, as it There may be other meetings, as posted at the Post Office or online. We'd like to get back to promoting parental salvage operation. the other book, which had had appeared in , where the businesses: Noah hadn’t really taken well your special events as well, but we really can't afford to do the gruesome working title raven actually appears as a to moving back to Montreal “I Ate Nurse Judy”, a private character. that for nothing. We will offer you space in these listings after years spent growing in-joke which Noah is pretty The Solomon of the title in return for some form of small advertising elsewhere in up in London. The move was certain would never have seen displays “an unquenchable itch the paper to help defray the cost of this full page com- made because Mordecai felt print. to meddle and provoke things, he needed to get back to the munity service. We would like to see sponsorships for the “My father liked originals and to play tricks on the world and place where his literary roots pithy characters who’d made a its creatures”, much like the TV Guide pages in the available space (see what Kaminak had received most of their success of themselves against trickster Raven and, as the book has chosen to do), or business card sized ads (see what nourishment. This is something Gurskythe odds,” Noah said. ends, its focal character, a down Bombay Peggy's does on page 19). Please contact us to Noah has found to be true of his He quoted extensively from at the heels writer named Moses own work, but at the time he see what we can arrange. and from other works Berger, sees a raven sailing off had some adjustments to make. to paint a picture of his father’s into the sky. Noah got into the Montreal favorite sort of protagonist, the There was a great deal more drug culture, sampling widely downtrodden man on the make. that was said during the 35 and indiscriminately, and his Mordecai wrote himself out minute prepared talk that father eventually became aware of the circumstances in which stretched out to 50 and then on it. Mordecai had watched he was raised and his central went on to a Q&A session, but members of his own generation characters try – sometimes Richler did ask those members – good friends – go down that succeeding, sometimes failing of his audience who were road, and, after a father/son trip - to overcome the accidents of obviously recording, to keep the to New York, took advantage of birth and social standing one evening to themselves, so this his connections in the Yukon way or another. account of the event has merely to get 15 year old Noah a job Noah noted, during a skimmed the surface. with a mining exploration crew previous interview, that he THE KLONDIKE SUN WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 2016 P3 Improvements underway for Yukon tourism data collection
WHITEHORSE (May 9, 2016) of Tourism and Culture Elaine Association of Yukon executive The tourism sector is critical “Industry needs reliable —The Yukon government is Taylor said. “We also recognize director Blake Rogers said. to a strong and diverse Yukon data to inform decisions,” reaching out to industry to that the best people to tell “Tourism Association of economy. Yukon businesses commented Rich Thompson, review visitor tracking and us what works and what can Yukon supports the Yukon attributed approximately $227 chair of the Yukon Chamber of seek advice on how to improve be improved are those in the government’s plan to move million in revenue to tourism in Commerce. “We will encourage reporting of the number of tourism industry.” forward with a review of 2014, which is approximately our members to be an visitors to the territory. The Yukon government will its data collection process. 3.9 per cent of Yukon’s gross important and reliable part of “The Yukon government continue to collect and publish Gathering important and useful domestic product (GDP). There the data collection process, and recognizes the importance tourism indicators online information is a priority of the are approximately 3,000 jobs will look forward to continued of visitor statistics for Yukon throughout the engagement business industry here and in Yukon’s tourism sector, improvement on reporting on businesses and the need process. we look forward to seeing the representing 11 per cent of the the metrics for this important to present a full picture of “Overall, Yukon visitation improvements achieved.” total jobs in the territory. part of the Yukon economy.” visitationTourism to Yukon,” MinisterYukon is on Beginsthe rise,” Tourism Dawson Specific Visitor Survey Story & Photo By Dan Davidson questions about trip planning, where they are from, mode of travel, how they learned The tourism It’s not a secret that the about the place, what they did industry tourism industry operators in (or wanted to do) while they reps in Dawson City have spent some were here and what type of Dawson years being dissatisfied with accommodations they used the territorial visitor statistics were very while in the region. produced by the Yukon’s interested in Reception of the draft survey Tourism Department. was fairly positive, although the design of Such numbers speak to the there were some concerns the proposed situation in the territory as a that it might be too long, and visitor whole, but did not, it was felt, suggestions for shortening do enough to describe what is survey. some areas while being more happening in the Klondike. specific in others. It addition to that, it’s been The presenters pledged to hard to come up with a way take these comments back of combining the various to Whitehorse and work on numbers gathered at the hotels, modifications. the Visitor Information Centre, There wasn’t much time the Dawson City Museum, and to do that. The surveys were the attractions run by both due to begin on May 1, with Parks Canada and the Klondike the opening of the Visitor Visitors Association. Information Centre and end on It was no surprise then, that September 30, when the VIC a mid-April meeting called closes. by Tourism Yukon to discuss the draft of a new, Klondike specific, Community Visitor Survey, drew a healthy lunch- time crowd of some two dozen to the KIAC Ballroom. Subscribe to the Research Analyst Colleen Madore and her assistant, Ceilidh Bailie, presented the Klondike group with a draft 21 item survey tool, developed with two objectives in mind: 1) to estimate the number of visitors that come to Dawson, and 2) to find out more about who they are. Sun! Canada $44
Tourism and Culture will be working with Highways USA $75 and Public Works on this project, setting up traffic Int'l $125 counters at the area’s exit email $29.75n points on the North Klondike Highway and west on the Top of the World. In addition there will be surveyors posted intermittently along the routes to record the number of people in a vehicle, as well as the type Visit and origin. There will also be an effort made to capture exit klondikesun.com data from the Dawson Airport. Visitors will be asked to for details! respond to a series of questions asked orally and checked off by the surveyors, including P4 WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 2016 THE KLONDIKE SUN OPINION Uffish Productions: Fighting Fires is for the Experts By Dan Davidson
to do – said repeatedly that it Back to Fort McMurray, threaten human habitation, assist them are simply in the was his sacred duty to do - we however. The social media businesses and what have way and should keep away So, Prime Minister Trudeau can be certain that those same traffic on this has been been termed “values”. until things have calmed visited Fort McMurray last people will claim that it was horrendous. Premier Notley’s The reality is that when a down a bit. Friday. In certain quarters just a publicity stunt and wax budget forecast, which fire gets as big as the one that Otherwise they run the people have been complaining eloquently and bitterly about predicted a lower expenditure has been called the Beast, risk of being named “men in that he hasn’t been there the number of selfies that will for firefighting in August this it creates its own weather, blue suits” and being accused ever since the fire began. have been taken while he was year (this is May, remember), and cannot be controlled or of taking fighters off the It was a dereliction of duty. there on Friday morning. has been blamed for the extinguished without the line for photo opportunities It was a clear sign that he People seem to have fire not being controlled. assistance of natural weather and invitations to sing the hated Alberta, conveniently forgotten that for most Prime Minister Trudeau’s patterns containing lots of national anthem for visiting forgetting the fact that he had of the last term Prime announcement that the federal moisture and favorable winds. officials. We’ve seen that visited there just a week or so Minister Harper traveled government is matching The reality is that in such before, and we don’t need to earlier and had had talks with with a complete television donations to the Red Cross circumstances anyone other see it again. Premier Rachel Notley. production crew, tasked with for Fort Mac relief has been that the fire suppression Everyone on that side of the shooting lots of video footage interpreted to mean that this experts and those needed to argument seemed to ignore and assembling the whole is all the Liberal government Roache's Corner by Mike Roache the historical fact that the last thing into a weekly video blog is doing, when that it clearly couple of times that Prime entitled 24/7. Of course, so few not the case. Minsters of both Liberal and people actually watched this Some postings have claimed Conservative stripes have broadcast that it is perhaps that radical conservationists immediately visited disaster not surprising it has been started the initial fires on areas, it has been shown forgotten. I happen to have purpose. Others have spun demonstratively that they been on the PMO’s distribution it as an attack by ISIS, and were in the way, that all the list since Mr. Harper’s visit to gone so far as to suggest it security and protocol which Dawson City some years ago, has something to do with the goes with the office, no matter so I was sent the link regularly number of Syrian refugees who is holding it, tends to and did watch a few episodes we have recently let into the disrupt normal operating just to see what it as all about. country. procedures. It was about controlling the Never mind that thousands That’s even worse when the message (due to not trusting of fires every year are procedures in place are for any of the networks to get started by careless campers abnormal circumstances. I it right) and burnishing the and cigarettes thrown have participated as the press brand. All of this was done out of vehicular windows. liaison in a number of tabletop at taxpayers’ expense. Had In particular, people are EMS operations here, and it’s it been done at Conservative forgetting that much of the pretty clear that the role of Party expense I would not boreal forest in the North is politicians in such cases is to have minded so much. at that final stage where sap Join the conversation! back off and let the experts do That’s not to say the Mr. soaked evergreens are ripe Write a letter to the Sun! their work. Trudeau isn’t doing the same for burning – and that this is Attn: Editor Now that Justin Trudeau thing every time he poses with part of the way that the forest Box 6040, Dawson City, YT, Y0B 1G0 has done what so many angry someone’s cellphone, but it renews itself. Or e-mail us at [email protected] voices on Facebook and doesn’t cost us a dime when he The current rule is that we TwitterWe want said they to wantedhear himfrom does you it.! fight fires only when they
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Klondike Visitors Association (KVA) and Jack London I came to the Yukon in the bone or joint pain, seizures seriously. There are many spring of 2012. In August, or migraines, depression, restaurants that say they Museum are excited to host the Jack London Festival, I noticed a full page story. osteoporosis, and an itchy have gluten free options June 3 to 5, 2016. This three day festival will celebrate More Americans have gluten skin rash called dermatitis (example: quinoa, chicken the life of Jack London (1876-1916), author of Klondike problems than once thought” herpetiformis (DH). wings, pizza crust) on the classics: Call of the Wild and White Fang. in the Yukon News. 4. More People Have Celiac menu, but when challenged, I As a diagnosed Celiac of over Disease Than Crohns, Colitis, found that the products used Dawne Mitchell, Head Interpreter at the Jack London 30 years, I was curious about and Cystic Fibrosis Combined. were not gluten free certified, the availability of support and 5. Celiac Disease is or the preparation was done Museum says: “Jack London continues to have an reference material for celiacs Hereditary - people with a in a gluten filled environment influence on people the world over. This event will be in the Yukon. My findings left first-degree relative with thus allowing for cross an opportunity for us to share Jack London’s Klondike me with the realization that celiac disease (parent, child, contamination which is toxic story, life and literature in a fun and interactive way. creating and administering sibling) have a 1 in 10 risk of to a diagnosed celiac. We invite all visitors and Yukoners to participate!” CCA Yukon Satellite Group developing celiac disease. This month numerous events (supported and endorsed by 6. Left Untreated, Celiac are being held across our Festivities Include: the CCA Edmonton Chapter) Disease Can Lead to country to promote awareness would be beneficial for our Additional Serious Health and education for celiacs who territory. Newly diagnosed Problems - these include require a zero tolerance gluten Special Guests celiacs and those choosing to the development of other free diet in order to live. The Including Tarnel Abbott, Jack London’s great- be gluten free can arrange to autoimmune diseases such CCA Yukon Support Group granddaughter have a shopping tour, receive as chronic gastrointestinal will be available for you to Stampeders Dinner information helpful to living disorders. drop-in at the Whitehorse A gold rush themed meal with special entertainment! gluten free, and have a point 7. Many People with Celiac Library Community Room Parks Canada’s Greatest Klondike Author of contact here in the Yukon Disease Report Having “Brain on May 15, in Dawson at the to voice their questions or Fog” - problems with staying front entrance to the hospital London, Berton & Service face off! concerns. Fundraising has focused and paying attention, on May 21, and there will “Tracks” resulted in providing many lapses in short term memory). be a Celiac / Gluten Free A one-man play by Vancouver artist Michael Bean, new gluten free related books 8. 1 in 100 People in Canada information table staffed at based on Jack’s memoir “The Road” to the Yukon Library for have Celiac Disease ñ on the annual Diabetes Walk on Reading Relay information ease of access to average in North America, it May 29 in Whitehorse. A one-day live reading of “The Call of the Wild”, with all Yukon residents. takes 10 years before a correct Check out the Events listing 13 Things you need to know diagnosis is made. in your local newspaper guest readers! about Celiac Disease - Because 9. The Later the Age of closer to these dates for their Celiac Disease is not a Fad Diagnosis, the Greater the location and times. 1. Celiac Disease is an Chance of Developing Another I hope to see you at one of For more information on this not-to-be missed event, Autoimmune Disease (other Autoimmune Disorder. them. Volunteer assistance is please contact: examples of autoimmune 10. It is Estimated That Up to alwaysBarbara appreciated Geroux diseases are type 1 diabetes, 20% of People Diagnosed with CCA Yukon Support Group rheumatoid arthritis, and Celiac Disease Have Persistent [email protected] Paul Robitaille multiple sclerosis). Symptoms While on a Gluten- P.O. Box 15 2. There are over 300 Free Diet. There are several Tagish, Yukon Marketing and Events Manager Known Symptoms of Celiac causes to poorly responsive Y0B 1T0 867-993-5575 Disease. It can be difficult to celiac disease, including 867-399-3745 [email protected] diagnose because it affects Small Intestinal Bacterial people differently and some Overgrowth and Pancreatic people with celiac disease Insufficiency. show no symptoms. 11. Consuming the Smallest 3. Digestive Symptoms Amount of Gluten Can Make Are NOT the Only Symptoms a Person with Celiac Disease of Celiac Disease, other very ill. symptoms include iron 12. Commonly, People with deficiency anemia, fatigue, Celiac Disease Experience Several Nutritional Don't just Deficiencies (such as iron, calcium, vitamin D, zinc, B6, READ the Sun. B12, folate). 13. 15 to 25% of People WRITE some- with Celiac Disease Are Also Affected by Dermatitis thing. Herpetiformis ñ this is a skin manifestation of celiac COVER an disease. Extremely itchy bumps or blisters appear on event. Send us both sides of the body. The availability of gluten a PICTURE. free food in our grocery stores is great and the managers are We welcome always open to suggestions of bringing in more products other views that you identify for them. My dining experiences in and voices. the Yukon have left me with a handful of restaurants that take the “diagnosed Celiac gluten free requirement of zero cross contamination” P6 WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 2016 THE KLONDIKE SUN THE KLONDIKE SUN WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 2016 P7 He Wants to Pick Your Bones
By Chris Collin
what animals lived where. miners have dug up. and the Yukon horse, a in more animal migration, However, plate tectonics had A major collector in the 700,000 year old sample as deer, cougars, and other On Wednesday night, May the continents moving, and, Yukon from the 1960-90’s of which provided DNA animals have been arriving 11th, Dr. Grant Zazula, a as the open waterways were was Dr. Richard Harington. for the oldest sequencing in Yukon for the last 50 years Paleontologist from the closed, the Earth began to He searched for animals of a horse ever. However, or so. And, skunks are now Yukon Government, gave a cool, which happened about that had been covered by he seemed particularly in northern BC, and may talk entitled: “Mammoths three million years ago. “loess,” the dust that blows interested in the rarer enter the Yukon soon. He in the Klondike ‘Gold Rush,’ As this happened, animals around especially in dry animals, like the American answered a question from and Other Random Thoughts changed. E.g., camels on areas, and eventually settles. mastodon, ground sloths, the audience about whether About Old Bones.” He began Ellesmere island developed Over thousands of years, it giant beavers, camels, and bison will be moving north by talking about how it was the split toe to walk on snow. can reach 60m in thickness. flat headed peccaries. These as things warm. He says amazing that many people Of course, this also helps There was a volcano in the animals need a warmer it will depend on rainfall. do not realize that dinosaurs them today to walk on sand, Aleutian islands that emitted climate, and while quite Bison thrive in certain were long gone by the time but, it was actually a cold ash about 29,000 years ago, common in southern regions, conditions, and the amount people first appeared on weather adaptation. making the “Dawson Tephra.” they are much rarer in the of rain will influence their the planet. He likes to work As waters lowered, Yukon, This averages 30cm thick, Yukon. He feels that they rate of success, but, he noted on what he calls “sub-zero and Alaska were connected and is used as a time marker came north during warmer that they are doing very well heroes” - mammoths, and to Siberia in a land mass – fossils under it are older times, and disappeared as at the moment, increasing in creatures like that who lived called “Beringia,” which than 29,000 years, and above it became colder. And, as it faster numbers than hunters in the Yukon thousands, was actually free of ice. All it are younger. Dr. Zazula warmed, the Bering Strait re- can kill. but not millions of years sorts of creatures crossed also showed pictures of appeared, preventing these Overall, it was a very ago, despite his eight year over in both directions. Permafrost that was 750,000 animals from migrating to interesting talk, attended old son’s fascination with And, when the Gold Rush years old, and had survived Asia. by a diverse group of dinosaurs. happened in 1898, so many previous global warming He said that he feels that Dawsonites. He noted that He continued his talk with fossils of these animals were cycles. He noted that Climate the woolly rhinoceros, which there were many placer the ideas of climate change. discovered by the placer Change deniers tried to use originated in the Tibet area, miners in the audience, and For example, North, and miners, that it prompted a this information to prove and moved north into Siberia he acknowledged they are South America were not “Fossil Rush,” as universities, that Climate Change today should be found in North known for how well they co- connected at one time, and and museums from all over does not exist, and does America, but, it never has operate with the scientists the Mediterranean area was the world sent scientists not melt Permafrost, which been. He was no idea why, for the betterment of an open waterway as well, to the Klondike, taking out Dr. Zazula stated was quite but, he would offer a lot to scientific knowledge. two of many such waterways some 40,000 bones of ancient wrong. find one! all over the world. This animals. Placer miners to In his work, he has He finished with allowed warm water to flow this day are a huge source collected about 25,000 observations of our modern freely around the Earth, and of ancient fossils, and the specimens, notably woolly age, where warming is again resulted in a very warm time paleontologists roam the mammoths, steppe bison, happening. And, this is seen of no ice at all. This affected goldfields to see what the P8 WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 2016 THE KLONDIKE SUN The First World War: Counting the Cost to the Yukon
Story &Photos By Dan Davidson a major earthquake in 2011. importance. The academic meat of the “We mark the First World conference, and most of the War for its terrible cost to out The North and the First actual events, was to be found nation. We were a country World War conference got the next day at the Coast High of 8 million and we put more under way on Monday evening, Country Inn where conference that 680,000 Canadians in May 9, with a reception and co-chairs Dr. Brent Slobodin uniform.” gathering at the McBride and Dr. Ken Coates outlined He spoke of different Museum, including a couple of the purpose of the conference, strands of memory, one hours for people to get to know which was to commemorate being the strand of death and each other, and those new to and stir up interest in a portion destruction, another strand the Yukon to have a tour of the of Yukon, which they feel is being the realization that the Museum and participate in a very significant, but which has war “pushed us towards full historical treasure hunt. generally been ignored. political autonomy.” Yukon Historical and There is a tendency, in Yukon Canada had no say in Museums Association studies, to start with the Gold whether it went to war in 1914. president, Sally Robinson Rush and them jump straight That would not happen again. Opening reception at the McBride Museum. welcomed everyone to the to the building of the Alaska Later in the morning, Dr. conference and predicted a Highway. Coates is determined Ken Coates tackled the issue productive and pleasant three that a lot of significant things of the social revolution in the more days. happened as the so-called Great territory which was a result really didn’t care. Gold prices it felt more so after, and would Monday had already seen War began and flowed from its of changes caused by the war. were down, the population was continue in that state until the a full day workshop, held at aftermath. Summed up briefly, Coates says down; the territory was likened Second World War provided the the Yukon Transportation The first speaker of the that the Yukon’s response to to a boom town mining camp stimulus of the Alaska Highway Museum, on the subject of day, Dr. Tim Cook, was tasked the war showed that it cared, that was about to be shut down, project. Cultural Organizations and with providing a national that it wanted to be part of the and the federal government There were 24 lecture Traumatic Events, facilitated and international context for Canadian experience. It raised nearly did just that. presentations over the three by New Zealand’s Sarah what would flow from the soldiers and money in great If the territory felt days. Several later articles will Murray, the Curatorial Manager war. Anniversaries matter, he amounts and lost both. Added marginalizedPhotos: before the war, cover some of the rest of them. of the Canterbury Museum in said, and we were never quite together with the loss of 10% Christchurch, where there was the same after the events of of Dawson’s population when * Sally Robinson, Yukon that war. It sowed the seeds the Princess Sophia sank just Historical and Museums of some current advances and before the end of the war, the Association president a great man of our current territory was sadly depleted. world problems. We remember The national government * Dr. Tim Cook, Adjunct it, but we don’t celebrate its responded by showing that it Research Professor at Carleton University.
* Dr. Ken Coates, U. of Saskatchewan. THE KLONDIKE SUN WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 2016 P9 Modest affordable rental housing projects approved for Whitehorse and Dawson Moint news release
WHITEHORSE (May 12, 2016) Design Build has taken a hands- located in the downtown will be partially furnished as a also have two two-bedroom —Two Yukon developers have on approach to design/build Whitehorse area, close to first stage for tenants seeking market rental units. All floors been awarded capital funding residential projects in Yukon. amenities and services. The Structure:to transition to longer-term will be serviced with an support for the construction Backgrounder: design of the building will housing options. elevator. A roof top deck will and operation of affordable project descriptions fit into the character of the The building will be available to all tenants. A rental housing projects in Chief Isaac Incorporated neighbourhood, with the top be four-stories constructed Apartments:bicycle storage area will be Whitehorse and Dawson. housing proposal - Dawson floor setback from the building to energy-efficient standards. included on the ground floor. Chief Isaac Incorporated, the Location: edge to provide a scaled The ground floor will be The 10 furnished Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in business transition fitting with the commercial space with two single bedroom affordable arm, will receive $450,000 for a The new building smaller scaled buildings in the single bedroom units, and the housing units will be 14-unit development in Dawson. will be located in Dawson on area. As many new residents upper three floors will house approximately 360 square feet Nine of the 14 units will be the corner of Queen Street and who move to Yukon have few 10 single bedrooms residential in size allocated for affordable housing Second Avenue. The old Cassiar possessions,Government these apartments of Canada apartments. Supports The top floor Sustainable will Agriculture tenants. The total project cost is building currently occupies the Description:lot. Business in Yukon estimated at $3.97 million. CanNor investments grow indigenous community garden and greenhouse projects 360° Design Build, owned by Antonio Zedda and Jack The new building Kobayashi, will receive features design highlights $500,000 to construct urban that blend with Dawson’s turn WHITEHORSE, YT, May Carmacks First Nation First Nation and $10,000 micro-apartments on Hawkins of the century ambience and Street in Whitehorse. The building styles. The two-storey 12, 2016 /CNW/ - Today, the community greenhouse from the Government of four-story building will consist structure will blend in with Honourable Navdeep Bains, project, CanNor is Yukon will support the of furnished one-bedroom existing properties and will not Minister of Innovation, contributing $24,800, the relocation and renovations apartments. Ten of the 14 units stand out as a modern structure Science and Economic First Nation is contributing of the community’s organic among the neighbouring will be allocated for affordable Development and Minister $3,100, and the Government greenhouse and community housing tenants. The total historic buildings. The building responsible for CanNor, of Yukon is providing garden. The contribution will meet the requirements project cost is estimated to be announced an investment $3,100. will also support hiring $2.91 million. Structure:of the Heritage Advisory Committee and their guidelines. of over $56,000 to support In addition to exploring a Coordinator to manage “Our Government understands northern economic growth expanding the greenhouse in the site and to deliver that all Canadians need and Constructed of through self-sustainable Dawson City, an investment educational workshops deserve housing that is safe, durable low-maintenance adequate and affordable,” materials, the energy efficient agriculture projects in two of $31,349 from CanNor, and food preservation Yukon Member of Parliament building will accommodate indigenous communities in complimented by $13,120 programming. Larry Bagnell said on behalf rooftop gardening planters for Yukon. These projects will from Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in of the Minister responsible tenants. A common roof-top also strengthen food security for Canada Mortgage and patio will also be included. in these communities. Housing Corporation the Each apartment will feature its Both Little Salmon own private balcony to provide Honourable Jean-Yves Duclos. Carmacks First Nation and “It ain’t gold but it’s close!” natural light, fresh air and “Through Budget 2016, we the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in First To find out how you can contribute to your community's paper, just e-mail connection to the outdoors and [email protected]! have doubled the investment Nation have community in the Affordable Housing Apartments:the street ambience. greenhouses that have been Initiative to help build stronger communities from coast-to- The barrier- providing fresh produce coast-to-coast, including here in free building will incorporate to local residents, tourists, Yukon.” 13 residential units and one and community members in Both of the successful projects commercial unit on the ground need. As locally grown and will receive a capital funding floor. The building will include high-quality food has become contribution towards the nine affordable single-bedroom more available, the growing suites and four two-bedroom construction of the affordable demand for fresh produce suites at market rents. rental apartments. Funding 360° Design Build Urban has surpassed the supply. Micro Apartments support for the housing This funding will support projects is provided through -Whitehorse exploring the feasibility the Investment in Affordable Location: Housing agreement between of expanding the existing Canada Mortgage and Housing The building will community gardens and Corporation and Yukon Housing Description:be constructed at 300 block greenhouses in these two Corporation. Hawkins Street in Whitehorse. communities.Quick Facts “I would like to congratulate The building is the developers for their designed to appeal to young single people by being centrally innovative housing proposals,” To support Little Salmon Minister responsible for the Yukon Housing Corporation Attention Yukon Hunters! the Honourable Stacey Hassard said. “Low- and moderate- The period to apply for the Permit Hunt income Yukoners will soon Authorization (PHA) lottery has changed. have more choice for affordable To be eligible for the lottery, applications must rental accommodations.” be received by Environment Yukon before close of business The Chief Isaac Group of on Friday June 10, 2016. Companies was established in 1984 to own and operate A Yukon resident who holds a 2016-17 hunting licence may the business interests of the apply for a Permit Hunt Authorization for 2016. Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in, a self- governing Yukon First Nation Apply early and avoid last minute lineups. based in Dawson. 360° Design Build is a Yukon- based design, construction and For more information, visit: development company located in Whitehorse. With more www.env.gov.yk.ca/PHA than 50 urban housing units completed since 2002, 360° P10 WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 2016 THE KLONDIKE SUN Coffee Houses Raise Funds for NGOs
The last of the monthly coffee house/open mic took place on May 7. During the year the performers and organizers have been using the admission and concession profits to support a number of of organizations. The latest group to receive assistance was the Humane Society, to the tune of $305.00.
River Bends performed as both a band and as a back-up group.
Bonnie Duffie Audiences at these monthly events have been strong throughout the Photo by Dan Davidson winter.
Suzanne Gagnon Photo by Dan Davidson
These young fiddlers have been regular performers during this year's coffee house/open mic sessions.
Deirdre Mulcahy Photo by Dan Davidson
Dan Davidson Photo by Chris Collin THE KLONDIKE SUN WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 2016 P11 Yukon MLAs urge Bank of Yukon investing in services to support families of Canada to ensure inclusion of children with disabilities northern women Recommendation to include three Yukon women on WHITEHORSE (May 11, communicative potential,” supports to Yukon families to new bank notes Motion receives unanimous support 2016) —Based on demand Nixon added. “The referral to help them care for their child and increasing needs, the speech and language pathology with a disability, to ensure they WHITEHORSE Government of Yukon is services ensures early getLearn the best more: possible start in investing $120,000 for speech identification and management life. (April 28, 2016) – A motion urging the and language services within of both communication and Call Family Governor of the Bank of Canada to consider featuring a the Family Supports for swallowing disorders, which Supports for Children with Yukon woman on a new Canadian bank note was passed Children with Disabilities in turn enables maximal social, Disabilities program at 867- unanimously yesterday in the Yukon Legislative Assembly. program. academic and vocational 393-7464 or toll free at 1-800- “This investment will integration of our children.” 661-0408 ext. 7464. The motion urges the governor to consider three notable provide an additional option The Family Supports for Yukon women: Martha Louise Purdy Black, OBE, the second for children and families Children with Disabilities woman ever to be elected to the House of Common of seeking speech and language program provides a range of Canada; Tagish storyteller Angela Sidney, CM; and Shaaw services, and will complement Tláa, also known as Kate Carmack, co-discoverer of gold in existing contracted services,” the Klondike. Minister of Health and Social The motion also asks the Bank of Canada to ensure that Services Mike Nixon said. “We Canadian women will continue to be featured on future bank would like to acknowledge notes, in recognition of their many contributions to shaping and appreciate the important history and life in Canada. Lastly, the motion encourages the role played by the Disability Programs Advisory Committee Bank of Canada to include women from Yukon and the North in providing support and input on its Independent Bank Note Advisory Council. into this initiative.” “There are so many notable women in our history,” The expansion of speech and Watson Lake MLA Patti McLeod said. “We have Canadian language services is effective women who were pioneers in their fields, in everything from this spring. Services may medicine to politics to leadership.” include assessment, treatment, The Government of Canada announced on International consultation and programming Women’s Day in March that the Bank of Canada would to address a child’s need in the undertake public consultation to select an iconic Canadian home or community. Children woman to be featured on the first bank note of its next with a broad range of physical, mental, social or emotional series. impairment or limitations will “This motion follows up on a letter that I sent to Governor benefit from these services. Poloz earlier this spring,” Yukon Party Leader Darrell “It is important that all Pasloski said. “These three women made great contributions children receive the help to life and history in the North, and their contributions to they need to reach their full Yukon and Canada make them very suitable candidates to Healthrepresent Canadian Investment women on a bank Fund note.” helps develop strong communities
WHITEHORSE (May 12, 2016) —The Arctic Institute of Community-Based Research and Yukon Circle of Change will share $18,850 through the Yukon government’s Health Investment Fund. “We are pleased to support both organizations in their work promoting health and social change,” Minister of Health and Social Services Mike Nixon said. “The Health Investment Fund encourages projects that enable youth to thrive and individuals to work together towards wellness, and these initiatives further those goals.” The Arctic Institute of Community-Based Research will deliver a Yukon Food Security Roundtable. Food security and food sovereignty are pressing issues throughout the North and have been identified as priority concerns for the health and well-being of all northern residents. “Funding from the Health Investment Fund is contributing importantly to the upcoming Yukon Food Security Roundtable and related events,” Arctic Institute of Community-Based Research executive director Jody Butler Walker said. “Access to nutritious, affordable, culturally appropriate food is an important determinant of the health of Yukon residents, and we are grateful for the Health Investment Fund’s support to move towards a more food secure Yukon.” The Yukon Circle of Change promotes social change through their Be the Change Movement, which provides support and training in resiliency building by taking negative peer pressure and turning it into positive peer support. “We are so thrilled to be able to offer the Be the Change Movement from the schools out into the community at large,” Yukon Circle of Change president Christine Klaassen-St Pierre said. Two levels of funding are offered through the Health Investment Fund. Groups can apply for contributions from $100 to $10,000. For projects over $500, the next application deadlines are May 20, September 20 and January 20. Applications for projects under $500 can be sent at any time. Organizations are encouraged to contact the Health Investment Fund before the deadline for assistance with developing project ideas. Learn more: Health Investment Fund P12 WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 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 (heh) 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, MAY 18, 2016 THE KLONDIKE SUN History Hunter: Words and music to go to war too by Michael Gates Yukon News, Friday April 15, 2016 mascot, a shaggy-haired hound own composition titled “The Used with the author's named Jack; now they had a Yukon Boys Will Surely Win permission rousing song to “sing with Where the English Channel zest when they sit about the Flows.” campfires on the way to Berlin.” Jack Suttles, an American The Great War had a catalytic from the Klondike, had once When hundreds of Yukon men effect upon the artistic been a member of a minstrel went overseas to war, their endeavours of many Yukon group, and had toured the spirits were lifted somewhat by poets and troubadours. These continent before coming the rousing poems and songs composers created lively pieces north. His name appears in the composedIt’s a long by way their to dear compatriots to perform at social events and Dawson Daily News a number backold Klondike,home. fundraisers for the Patriotic of times with reference to his It’s a long way to go; Fund, the Yukon Comfort Fund, musical and cinematographic It’s a long way to golden Yukon - and various other charitable creations. In May of 1916, he George Black fonds, 81/107 #3/Yukon Archives To the homeland of wartime causes. created the song titled “Life the sourdough. In the fall of 1915, the Along the Yukon,” whose You may sing of Tipperary. Whitehorse chapter of the lyrics were enough to instill Charles Sedley Barwell, with Strand and Leicester Square - International Order, Daughters homesicknessYou may talk inabout the heartiestyour rivers, Women’s Protective League in the Yukon Infantry Company, It’s a longer mush to of the Empire (IODE), received fromYukon the soldiers: Volga to the Rhine. Dawson. created the following old Klondike. a hundred copies of the words But of all the pictured places, Fotheringham was no novice impromptu shanty, which was But my heart’s right there. of a song written by George there is none of them like mine. to the literary establishment; sung lustily on deck between Warnicker of Vancouver. It was Where the mighty Yukon she had already published a dashes of salt-sea spray, titled “Why Don’t You Wear River is flowing to the sea book of poems, including her demonstrating that the one and There is something about a Uniform?” and its obvious Life along the Yukon is most well-known work, Only only lady voyager among the mustering for “King and intent was to shame young fit good enough for me. a Working Girl. The Canadian Country” that stirs a nascent men into volunteering in the Encyclopedia online describes 1500 passengers was far from lyrical instinct of the heart in Canadian Expeditionary Force. her as Canada’s first working- being an unwelcome mess mate men and women when a nation Its effect upon the ears of the The tune continues for several class poet. Among her Anglo or any damper on the soldiers’ goes to war. Whitehorse men who read the more verses, but you get the Saxon verses was “Good Luck merriment: The two stanzas above, which words or heard the song is not idea. In early December, 1916, to the Yukon Contingent.” We have stolen Mrs. Black and were sung to the tune of “It’s a known, but a hundred or so Willie Chisholm, described as She gathered over 200 four- we will not bring her back, Long way to Tipperary,” were men from the southern Yukon one of the Yukon’s most noted leaf clovers from the parade ‘Till the Germans quit and composed a few weeks after eventually enlisted. poets, wrote a letter to the grounds of Minto Park in when the Allies win war was declared by Canada, When the men of the Dawson Daily News, portraying Dawson. Each was carefully ‘Till we nail the Union Jack to against Germany, in August, George Black contingent were in verse the daily routine at mounted on cards bearing the the Kaiser’s chimney stack, 1914. The words were penned preparing to leave Dawson in the Willows Camp in Victoria. aforementionedAnd so I am sending poem, the which token, And we toast the Yukon by John Dines, who was referred October of 1916, a gathering This was where the men were includedRich with the their following: magic charm, Daughters in Berlin. to in the Dawson Daily News as was held in the Moose Hall receiving training before Straight from the heart The only poet who did not Dawson’s troubadour. When not the evening of October 7. heading overseas as an infantry of the Yukon, contribute any verse that made working for the Dawson City Fire Stirring patriotic songs were company. To guard you and keep reference to Dawson City or Department, he was a musician sung by the community; Marie Joussaye Fotheringham, you from harm. the Klondike was the world and band leader who performed popular favourites at the time whose husband, a former We feel that your sturdy famous Bard of the Yukon, and entertained for dances in included “Oh Canada,” “The Mountie, had enlisted with manhood, Robert W. Service, who served Dawson. Maple Leaf Forever,” and “Rule the George Black contingent, Your courage tried and true, as a journalist, then as an The Boyle detachment was Britannia.” The latter song compiled her own literary work With the luck of the ambulance driver during the sponsored by mining millionaire acknowledged that Canada was into a small booklet of poems British army war. The closest he came to Joe Boyle and was to be sent still considered to be part of titled “Selections from Anglo Will carry you safely through. mentioning the territory was overseas as a unit to fight in the British Empire. But the hit Saxon Songs.” The booklet sold in the poem “The Man From a machine gun battery. The of the evening, according to the for a dollar a copy, and half the Athabasca.” It was about a man detachment already had a newspaper, was little Gordon proceeds were donated “to In January, 1917, Martha Black from the Canadian north, who McKeen when he performed his provide Field Comforts for our accompanied her husband yearned for home, and charmed Yukon Soldiers at the Front.” All overseas, serving as first-aid his fellow soldiers with stories of the men who enlisted were attendant to the men aboard of his life in the northland. to receive a free copy from the the troop ship the S.S. Canada. Service’s poems were published in Rhymes of a Red Cross Man. It became a best seller that topped the international book sales for many months. We learned more about Robert Service and his wartime poetry at “The North and World War I” conference, which took place in Whitehorse and Dawson City May 9-15. 902 3rd Avenue Michael Gates is a Yukon historian and sometimes adventurer based in Whitehorse. Come and see us during the He is currently writing a book on the Yukon in World War I. Mike Gold Show was one of the founders of this newspaper. 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P.O. Box 308 (1336 Front Street), Dawson City, Yukon, Y0B 1G0 Tel: (867) 993-7400 ~ Fax: (867) 993-7434 www.cityofdawson.ca (updated regularly)
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 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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