Remembering (and never repeating) history
The Japanese Canadian Association of Yukon (JCAY) recognized the 30th anniversary of the success of the Redress campaign in 1988.
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Change is happening
This year’s 16 Days of Action to End Gender-Based Violence was packed with some powerful events.
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Auld acquaintance shan’t be forgot
Holiday season is a time of celebration. For Hospice Yukon, it is the time to offer support to grieving Yukoners during the Lights of Life
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The History of Jews During the Gold Rush
Once upon a time there were quite a few Jews in the Klondike. They arrived with the other gold rush stampeders. There were enough of
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Mrs. Black Goes to War
During the Great War of 1914-1918, nearly a thousand Yukoners enlisted for service in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, or fought for Britain, France and other
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Surviving a Grizzly Attack and the Great War
Jim Christie was born in Scotland in 1867. He emigrated to Manitoba and then came to the Klondike in 1898. The short, wiry Scotsman took
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Tattoo You: Whitney Sandulak
Hello readers, Do you have a tattoo that is important to you? Is it inspired by something or someone in the Yukon? Please submit a
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Remembering Sandi Gleason
A friend of Jeanie Dendys’s 15-year-old son told Dendys he gets more excited for the native hockey tournament than he does for the Canada Games.
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Remembering Al Baer
This fall I attended the Yukon Biodiversity Forum, a yearly round-up of biology goings-on in the territory. I reunited with old friends and met new ones,
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Traveling with Janet
I pulled out the flat, round, ceramic piece, which looked like a patterned cookie, and held it in my hand. Under glorious sun, I surveyed
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Silent strength – Todd Hardy Tribute
I’ve never met Tytus Hardy, or Tess or Lymond Hardy. But I know for a fact that they are good people … smart, caring and
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Reid Parent – artist, mentor, friend
Laughter, tears, dancing and push-ups. The celebration was just how Reid Curtis Parent would have wanted it, as if his spirit were guiding us. To
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Pancakes and Pie
It’s a sunny Sunday in Dawson, the first day of a new month. I am standing by the window at our kitchen counter eating a
Sylvia MacIntosh: Respected Lawyer, Mother, Friend
“I liken her to a fizzy drink—refreshing, invigorating and fun.” “She was a hummingbird with high energy.” Those colourful terms are how two very good
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Dinner with Jerome
My cousin’s husband, Jerome, died in his sleep at home in Paris on December 18, 2003. He was 45 and had been diagnosed with lung
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