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35 unusual facts about Yukon


14 Carrot Rabbit

The basic plot of 14 Carrot Rabbit takes place during the gold rush in The Klondike, Yukon, and centers on Yosemite Sam (here as Chilkoot Sam) whose attempts are to steal other people's gold.

2009 NWT/Yukon Scotties Tournament of Hearts

The 2009 NWT/Yukon Scotties Tournament of Hearts (Canada's women's territorial curling championship) will be held January 29 - February 1 at the Whitehorse Curling Club in Whitehorse, Yukon.

Alaska Route 7

In British Columbia, it continues north as the Haines Highway with no designation, eventually connecting with Yukon Highway 3 (whichs ends at the Alaska Highway at Haines Junction in the Yukon Territory).

Area code 867

The largest distances between exchanges are 2,200 km from Sanikiluaq to Grise Fiord, and 3,365 km from Beaver Creek to Pangnirtung.

Carcross, Yukon

Silver mining was promoted nearby in Conrad, Yukon in the early 1900s, but there was little to be found and mining efforts soon ended.

Carmacks, Yukon

Carmacks is situated at the confluence of the Nordenskiold and Yukon rivers, approximately 180 km (112 miles) north of Whitehorse and 360 km (224 miles) south of Dawson City on the North Klondike Highway.

CFET-FM

On August 30, 2012, Robert G. Hopkins received approval to add a low-power FM transmitter at Haines Junction, Yukon.

Chris Masuak

His nickname of "Klondike" came from having spent part of his youth growing up in Kamloops, British Columbia.

CKRW-FM

It is also transmitted into other Yukon communities, including Watson Lake, Haines Junction, Faro, Mayo and Teslin.

Dean Hassard

After moving his family permanently to Whitehorse, Hassard stood as the Yukon Party's candidate in the Whitehorse-area electoral district of Porter Creek South in the 2006 territorial election.

Direct distance dialing

Whitehorse, Yukon, had seven-digit numbers from 1965, but the necessary switching equipment was not in place locally until 1972.

Frederick Schwatka

Schwatka Lake in Whitehorse, Yukon, is named after him, as is Mount Schwatka, Alaska.

Gardiner Greene Hubbard

In 1890, Mount Hubbard on the Alaska-Yukon border was named in his honour by an expedition co-sponsored by the National Geographic Society while he was president.

Gustave Ferbert

For a considerable period of time, Ferbert was out of contact in the Klondike, but he emerged on the Seward Peninsula.

Haines Highway

The Haines Highway or Haines Cut-Off (and still often called the Haines "Road") is a highway that connects Haines, Alaska, in the United States, with Haines Junction, Yukon, Canada, passing through the province of British Columbia.

Haines, Alaska

Haines is much more accessible than most other southeast Alaskan communities of its size, as it is connected to the North American highway system by the Haines Highway, which passes through British Columbia on its way to the junction with the Alaska Highway at Haines Junction, Yukon.

Height restriction laws

Whitehorse: No buildings should be taller than four stories due to the nearby fault line.

Jerry Alfred

Alfred was born in the community of Mayo, Yukon in September 1955 into traditional life and speaking the Northern Tutchone language, a skill which he kept alive in spite of having been sent to residential English speaking schools at the age of five.

Joseph W. Boyle

Boyle was early to recognize the potential of large-scale gold mining in the Klondike gold fields, and as the initial placer mining operations waned after 1900, Boyle and other companies imported equipment to assemble enormous dredges, usually electric-powered, that took millions more ounces of gold from the creeks while turning the landscape upside-down, shifting creeks.

Marsh Lake, Yukon

Marsh Lake is an unincorporated bedroom community on the Alaska Highway on the shores of Marsh Lake southeast of Whitehorse in Canada's Yukon.

The municipal boundary of the community of Marsh Lake extends along the Alaska Highway from the Yukon River bridge east of Whitehorse to include all of the residential areas up to Judas Creek along the Alaska Highway.

The area is served by a volunteer fire and rescue service, as well as 911 calling for other emergency services out of Whitehorse.

Paulette Steeves

Paulette Steeves born, on 25 November 1955, in Whitehorse, Yukon moved with her family a year later to British Columbia, Canada where she grew up among a traditional Salish community.

Pelly Crossing, Yukon

The Selkirk First Nation community was established as a ferry crossing and a highway construction camp when the Klondike Highway from Whitehorse to Dawson City was built in 1950.

Richard D. Cotter

In 1866 Richard Cotter and J.T. Dyer made a very hazardous and successful exploration of the country between Norton Bay and the mouth of the Koyukuk River on the Yukon.

Road to Utopia

They are visited by an equally old Duke Johnson (Crosby), and the three reminisce about their previous adventure in the Klondike.

Ross River, Yukon

It is serviced by Ross River Airport, used mainly for charter and scheduled flights to and from Whitehorse and Watson Lake.

SS Keno

For most of its career it transported silver, zinc and lead ore from mines in the Mayo district to the confluence of the Yukon and Stewart rivers at Stewart City.

Stewart River

From there, the Stewart flows west, past the village of Mayo.

Teslin Lake

On the Yukon portion of the lake there are three Indian Reserves of the Teslin Tlingit Council - Teslin Post Indian Reserve No. 13, Nisutlin Indian Reserve No. 14 and Nisutlin Bay Indian Reserve No. 15, and the community of Teslin, which is located where the Alaska Highway meets the lake, following its northern/eastern shore from there towards Whitehorse.

Tutchone language

Southern Tutchone is spoken in the Yukon communities of Aishihik, Burwash Landing, Champagne, Haines Junction, Kloo Lake, Klukshu, Lake Laberge, and Whitehorse.

Yukon Energy

The communities on the "Whitehorse-Aishihik-Faro" grid include Whitehorse, Champagne, Johnson's Crossing, Faro, and the following communities where it is distributed by YECL: Haines Junction, Carcross, Tagish, Marsh Lake, Teslin, Carmacks and Ross River.

Yukon general election, 2002

The riding of Ross River Southern Lakes represented by Dave Keenan (NDP) was split, with Ross River and Teslin going in Pelly-Nisutlin, the rest (Carcross and Marsh Lake) became Southern Lakes along with the portions of the Mount Lorne riding.

Yukon wolf

The first control program was started because of observations and complaints by the people of Ross River that the Filayson herd of caribou has been declining in size.

Yukon—Mackenzie River

It consisted of the Yukon Territory and the part of the District of Mackenzie in the Northwest Territories lying west of the 109th meridian west longitude.


2012 NWT/Yukon Scotties Tournament of Hearts

Kerry Galusha and her team from Yellowknife won the tiebreaker final, and the right to represent Yukon/Northwest Territories, at the 2012 Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Red Deer, Alberta, where Galusha would finish round robin with a 4-7 record.

Area codes 819 and 873

(Northwestel used area code 403 for its services in Yukon and the Northwest Territories, but since 1999, 403 only serves southern Alberta including Calgary.)

Baffin Mountains

The snowfall in the Baffin Mountains is light, much less than in places like the Saint Elias Mountains in southeastern Alaska and southwestern Yukon which are plastered with snow.

Bev Buckway

As a former curler, Buckway represented the Yukon at the Scott Tournament of Hearts and as a former volleyball player at the Arctic Winter Games and the Canada Winter Games.

Brayden Schenn

Schenn started his Hockey Canada career by representing Saskatchewan at the 2007 Canada Winter Games in Whitehorse, Yukon where his team finished 7th.

Canadian Geographic

The first editor was Charles Camsell, since 1915 a fellow of the British Royal Geographical Society, a geologist who had been responsible for mapping large parts of Northern Ontario, Manitoba and the Yukon.

CFWH

CFWH-FM, a radio rebroadcaster (104.5 FM) licensed to Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada, rebroadcasting CBU-FM

CFWH-TV, a television station (channel 6) licensed to Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada

Charles Robertson Maier

He was an archivist for the Yukon Territory until the foundation of the Canadian Heraldic Authority in 1988 when he was commissioned Athabaska Herald.

Copycat Building

Bands that have played the warehouse include: Grimes, Fat Day, Lightning Bolt (Rhode Island), Black Forest/Black Sea (Rhode Island), Japanther (Brooklyn, NY), Wolf Eyes (Ann Arbor), Gravenhurst (England), Robotnicka (France), The Death Set, Matt + Kim, Nautical Almanac, Long Live Death, The USAISAMONSTER, Need New Body, Landed, Rapdragons, Dan Deacon, Dead Mellotron, Yukon, Muscle Brain.

Crossroads International

Then she was elected to the House of Commons for the Yukon as a member of the New Democratic Party in a by-election in 1987 and re-elected in the general elections of 1988 and 1993.

Donna Diana

The overture served as the theme for the American radio (1947–1955) series Challenge of the Yukon, which later migrated to the TV series (1955–1958) Sergeant Preston of the Yukon.

Dumb Bell of the Yukon

Dumb Bell of the Yukon was a Disney animated short starring Donald Duck and Daisy Duck.

Edward L. Keithahn

He became interested in totem poles at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle, Washington, in 1909 and later traveled to southeast Alaska and eventually lived there working "in the Indian service," as he put it (meaning perhaps employment with the Bureau of Indian Affairs), living mainly among the Tlingit and Haida people.

Faro, Yukon

Lorne Greene, famous for his work in Bonanza, once narrated a film about Faro called A New World in the Yukon.

Fay Templeton

The Goddard sank in a storm on October 22, 1901 in Lake Laberge Yukon and was first found in 2009; the recordings were discovered a year later, after exploration of the vessel.

FP4

CFP4, an International Civil Aviation Organization airport code for McQuesten Airport, Yukon, Canada

Fuel tax

Excise taxes on gasoline and diesel are collected both federal and provincial governments, as well as by some select municipalities (Montreal, Vancouver, and Victoria); with combined excise taxes varying from 16.2 ¢/L (73.6 ¢/imperial gal; 61.2 ¢/US gal) in the Yukon to 30.5 ¢/L ($1.386/imperial gal; $1.153/US gal) in Vancouver.

Galena, Alaska

There were 12 summer fish camps located on the Yukon River between the Koyukuk River and the Nowitna River.

Gordon Cameron

Gordon Robertson Cameron (1921–2010), businessman and political figure in the Yukon, Canada

Han language

Hän language, an endangered Native American language spoken in Alaska and Yukon

Jack Curley

As a result, Curley became the manager for “Doc” Benjamin Roller, one of the era’s premier grapplers; and in 1909, he was named the athletic director for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle, where he emerged victorious in a promotional war against Joe Carroll.

Jake Metcalfe

His maternal great-grandfather, Patrick Flynn, came to Alaska at the turn of the 20th century to help build and work on the White Pass and Yukon Route from Skagway, Alaska to the Yukon Territory.

Kathleen Rockwell

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police held a tight leash on prospective miners and various hangers-on trying to get to the Yukon and find fortunes in gold.

Killer Kowalski

Kowalski attempted to visit his opponent in the hospital and began laughing along with Eric at how silly the bandages looked, with Kowalski recalling years later, "I swear, the first thing I thought of was Humpty Dumpty on the wall. Yukon Eric looked at me, shook his head, and smiled. I started laughing and he laughed, too.".

Koyukuk, Alaska

There were 12 summer fish camps located on the Yukon River between the Koyukuk River and the Nowitna River.

Lancieux

The Scottish poet and writer Robert W. Service known as the "Bard of the Yukon" used to spent summers in Lancieux from 1913 until his death in 1958.

Legislature of Yukon

Like the Canadian federal government, Yukon uses a Westminster-style parliamentary government, in which members are sent to the Legislative Assembly after general elections and from there the party with the most seats chooses a Premier of Yukon and Executive Council of Yukon.

Little Gold Creek, Yukon

Little Gold Creek is a border crossing located on the Top of the World Highway between Dawson City, Yukon and Tok, Alaska, at the Alaska/Yukon border.

Louis Whitford Bond

With the discovery of gold in the Yukon against the advice of their father he went with his brother's impulse and he spent a year at Dawson City, in the Klondike gold region, enduring many hardships, but gaining valuable experience.

Lupinus kuschei

Lupinus kuschei, Yukon lupine, is a species of flowering plant from the order of Lamiales which can be found in Alaska and Western Canada.

Maianthemum trifolium

Maianthemum trifolium (syn. Smilacina trifolia, Three-leaf Solomon’s-seal, three-leaf Solomon’s-plume, smilacine trifoliée) is a species of flowering plant that is native to Canada and the northeastern United States, from Yukon and British Columbia east to Newfoundland and south to Delaware.

Mobile Telephone Service

The remainder of the MTS network is still operating, though at a deficit, virtually blanketing the Yukon and northern British Columbia highway network, the western Great Slave Lake region, the Mackenzie River and the Mackenzie Delta.

National Parks of Canada

Feasibility studies have been undertaken for establishing further National Parks in several areas, including Wolf Lake in Yukon, South Okanagan-Lower Similkameen in British Columbia, Manitoba Lowlands (north-western Lake Winnipeg), Mealy Mountains in Labrador and Sable Island in Nova Scotia.

North Warning System

Now located in Yukon's Ivvavik National Park; station site remediation status is undetermined.

Rubus chamaemorus

Along the Yukon and Kuskokwim River areas, white fish (pike, whitefish) along with shortening and sugar is used.

Salix pulchra

It is native to northern North America, where it occurs in Alaska, Yukon, the Northwest Territories, and Nunavut.

Service Improvement Plan

The CRTC held regional consultations on the issues of PN 97-42 in eight locations from Whitehorse, Yukon to Deer Lake, Newfoundland and Labrador during May and June 1998, and received comments and submissions from the public, telephone companies and other organizations.

Stacey Hassard

He is the brother of Dean Hassard, who previously represented the same district in the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 2002 to 2006.

Stewart-Cassiar Highway

North of Jade City, Highway 37 travels another 120 km (75 mi) to its crossing of the 60th parallel into the Yukon Territory, becoming Yukon Highway 37 and terminating at a junction with the Alaska Highway near Upper Liard just 3.4 km (2.1 mi) later.

Stikine Ranges

The ranges run on a NW-SE axis from the Yukon boundary, adjacent to the Nisutlin Plateau at c.

The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Companion

All previously printed stories are from issues of Uncle Scrooge except for Hearts of the Yukon which was printed in Walt Disney Giant #1.

Tweetsie Railroad

Tweetsie acquired another coal-fired steam locomotive, USATC S118 Class 2-8-2 #190, the “Yukon Queen” from Alaska’s White Pass and Yukon Route in 1960.

Yukon Suspension Bridge

The Yukon Suspension Bridge is a pedestrian cable suspension bridge located on mile 46.5 on the South Klondike Highway in Northern British Columbia, Canada.