Celebrating Discovery Days in the Yukon goes back over 100 years. After the Klondike Gold Rush, the Yukon Order of Pioneers convinced the Yukon Territorial Council to celebrate Discovery Day, as a public holiday, in 1911.
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The editor set us the challenge of making a pitch for our community that says it is more special than any other in the territory,
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The Yukon’s Discovery Day Holiday is kind of hard to pin down. Likely the Monday closest to the day gold was discovered on Bonanza Creek.
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The Yukon Riverside Arts Festival takes place in the most idyllic of settings – right alongside the Yukon River in Dawson City.
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Meet Lee Campese, Yukon’s most recent import and the latest addition to the groovy rhythmic assemblage, Major Funk and the Employment.
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Dawson City has a fondness for parades. Canada Day and Discovery Day are the annual events with the longest history, but there have been Pride
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The Klondike Outhouse Race was inspired by chatter in a bar. “the barnstorming biffies charge through Dawson like a dose of castor oil.”
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We had fireworks just the other night. No one I’ve spoken with seems to know exactly who set them off down by the river. There
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“This weekend is an iconic celebration of what’s great in Dawson,” says Paul Robitaille. Discovery Days, the Riverside Arts Festival & more
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It always amazes me what northerners will do to prove they are unique and unlike people from Outside. See the Discovery Day long weekend.
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While it’s rare to find a weekend in the Dawson summer when there’s not a major event, things do tend to slow down a bit
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One of the last big weekends of this Dawson City summer will be built around an RCMP Regimental Ball, to be held here on August
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