Dan Davidson

Vancouver visual artist Michael Markowsky would someday like to make a landscape painting while standing on the surface of the moon. On Earth, Markowsky has

The ice bridge across the Yukon River in Dawson was closed by April 11 last year and it looked “iffy” for a week before that.

Chatting with Dawson International Short Film Festival producer Dan Sokolowski at the end of a busy weekend, he made the point that there were approximately

BY DAN DAVIDSON The highway passes it by now, elevated, two metres above where the entrance used to be. The pumps are long gone, leaving

The snow comes off the roofs in waves this year, each layer distinct in its reaction to the waves of cold, warmth, ice fog and

The recent purchase of the Old CIBC Building on Front Street by The City of Dawson has raised interest across the nation. The price tag

The half hour went by quickly and the children at the Tr’inke Zho Daycare were still involved with the lesson when Tiss Clark, their Orff

In my other writing life I produce a weekly column called Bookends. As a result I see a lot of books, an increasing number of

BY DAN DAVIDSON The whirlwind materialized from nowhere, as if from another dimension. A small eddy of dust in the dirt parking lot swiftly gathering

Dawson City itself becomes the art gallery for the year-end exhibition of work by the students at the KIAC School of Visual Arts (SOVA). KIAC

I lost a good neighbour a few weeks ago. I’m writing this just a week after the death of Madeleine Gould, but it will be

Giving directions in Dawson can be a very confusing exercise, both for those of us who live here and those who are visiting. The legal

Dawson City itself becomes the art gallery for the year-end exhibition of work by the students at the KIAC School of Visual Arts (SOVA). KIAC

It won’t be immediately obvious to anyone not involved in either history or journalism that this column’s title is a homage to a 35-year tradition

In spite of numerous attempts by the Chamber of Commerce and promises from the current Yukon government, the only bridge Dawson City has across the

Frustration is a winter drive in the twilight when a 16 wheel mobile snowstorm slows everything to a crawl and you peep to spy the

Pierre Berton was, for many years, Dawson’s best-known export and Canada’s best-known media face, better known even than Don Cherry. Having majored in the university

Today, we are advertising cloudy blue skies, gravel and shrubs. Yesterday, we were someone’s dream of success, prosperity on a billboard. Some called us progress;

Picture this: a journey through time marked in artifacts, some past, some present. On the wormtrail of the tailings, rusted machinery; a memory of dredges

As you read these words we have just exited the Bush-designated season for Daylight Saving Time. We are now 20 days away from the start

After a career that began when he crawled on stage at the age of 18 months and has hardly slowed at all in the 88

Though usually solitary sentinels, except in gift shops, where they line the shelves in mute plastic mimicry, these grey figures cluster in groups on stone

November is always a bazaar month in Dawson. Strangely enough, the word does seem to share the same 16th century Italian root – bazarro –