Jana and Bruce McDonald
They each moved to Whitehorse to start fresh, but Bruce and Jana McDonald never thought that would include a second chance at love. Jana, a psychologist, […]
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Fighting for Love
On July 17, 2014 Stephen and Rob Dunbar-Edge will celebrate their 10th wedding anniversary. This event, a milestone for any couple, is especially significant for
The Power of Soul Mates: Joy and Rick Karp
After 48 years together, one of Rick Karp’s favourite words for his wife, Joy, is “B’shert”, a Yiddish word for destiny, or soul mate. It
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From Mexico with Love
In 2007, Craig Graham-Biggers left the Yukon to run a bar in Baja, Mexico for a year. He expected sun and sand and to earn
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Doug and Pearl Bell
Doug Bell is still in love with the “beautiful, bubbly blonde” he met while he was a teenager in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. Pearl, his wife
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Falling in Love with the Territory, and Each Other
Christina Kaiser first fell in love with the Yukon in 1998, long before she set eyes on the man she would marry. Christina, who was
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The Yukon Romance of Claude and Mary Tidd
The following story is from an online exhibit by Yukon Archives that features letters, diaries, manuscripts, newspaper articles, photos, home movies and sound recordings collected
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Coffee and Good Conversation
“We’ve been married 65 years and we still talk to each other,” Gordon Toole chuckles warmly. “I still feel the same about Rose as I
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Adventurers Find Each Other
Explore the journey of Bruce Barrett and Judy Forrest, a couple who discovered love and adventure in Yukon together.
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Andy and Esmé Cruickshank
A 1920s Love Story, a Ryan B-1 high-winged monoplane named the Queen of the Yukon and the start of the Yukon Airways and Exploration Company.
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Trading in High Heels for Steel-Toed Boots
What did you want to be when you were 12 years old? That is the question Yukon Women in Trades and Technology (YWITT) is asking
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Learning About the Yukon’s First Peoples
Grade 5 teachers had some homework to do this summer. They were getting up to speed on the First Nations social studies curriculum. Selena Pye,
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Lost but not Forgotten: RCMP honours officers killed in 1963 Carmacks plane crash
It’s been 50 years since the worst RCMP plane crash in Yukon history. On July 13, 1963 at 8:10 p.m. a DHC-2 Beaver (CF-MPO) on
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The Challenges of an Arctic Rescue
In 1929, the largest aerial search and rescue operation in our country’s history gripped Canadians for months. That August, a group of eight prospectors led
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Seventy-Five Years and Counting
Alice and Arthur John of Ross River started their marriage in the traditional Dena way — their families arranged it. “Mom said she was about
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Sweethearts ’til the End
A chance encounter during wartime turned into a love that lasted more than 65 years. In 1944, John Gould was a young Royal Canadian Air
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Keeping the Stories Alive
Tammy Lee Josie first performed her family’s Vuntut Gwitchin stories at the Yukon International Storytelling Festival
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A Novel Idea
With such a literary family, it was only a matter of time before Maible Matrishon published her very own book. The Grade 4 student at
Flying the “Dan Special”
I first meet Dan Reynolds, owner and operator of Reynolds Outfitting, at Dawson’s Eldorado Hotel. In town for a wildlife management meeting, he looks the
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