Faro
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Issue: 2017-06-07, PHOTO: Jim McMynn
Tee Time in the Town of Faro
Faro Golf Club President Gary Jones remembers when it all started. “For our first tournament we drew circles on the soccer field to serve as holes,” he says. “There wasn’t much to do and not a lot of jobs. We used to hit golf balls around.” ... more
Jun. 07, 2017
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Alan Wilson
Nothing, Nothing, Nothing… Then Honks Galore!
Then the sky fills with hundreds of sandhill cranes, flying in huge Vs that morph and swoop as the birds soar to catch rising thermals. Everyone in Faro drops what they’re doing to look up. more
May 05, 2016
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Issue: 2015-04-23 PHOTO: courtesy Carolyn Vincent
A Northern Diary
AUGUST, 1976 We left our truck there — near the Hudson Bay airstrip — because that was the end of the Canol Road maintenance. We crossed the Yukon/ Northwest Territories border. From now on, we had to ford the creeks and rivers without the aid of... more
Apr. 23, 2015
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Justin Floyd
Road Ready
A Faro-based teacher pursues his second-career dream as a singer-songwriter. more
May 29, 2014
Faro Stories
Issue: 2018-06-13, PHOTO: Hugh Copland
The Tintina Trench
There was a not-so-urban myth out there that you could see the Tintina Trench from the moon. That is not true, unless the person on the moon had a good telescope. You can see the Tintina Trench from space, though, from the International Space... more
Jun. 13, 2018
Issue: 2018-04-25, PHOTO: courtesy of Owen Laukkanen
Owen Laukkanen: “Keep writing and edit your own work ruthlessly”
Owen Laukkanen is unabashedly a writer of commercial fiction, also known as “genre” fiction, having produced a novel every year since The Professionals came out (and was nominated for four major genre awards) in 2012. The Professionals was Book 1... more
Apr. 25, 2018
Issue: 2018-04-18, PHOTO: Dan Davidson
Gearing up to explore ideas and the written word
In 1990, a number of organizations joined together to meld the Young Authors’ Conference and the National Book Festival into a farther reaching Yukon Writers’ Festival to highlight the Canadian literary arts in the Yukon. The current sponsors of... more
Apr. 18, 2018
Issue: 2017-08-30, PHOTO: www.archbould.com, courtesy of Yukon Women in Mining (YukonWIM)
Yukon Women in Mining
Yukon Women in Mining wants to raise the profile of mining as a vibrant career option, especially for Yukon women and youth. To do that in May they launched the Experiential Extravaganza in three Yukon communities. more
Aug. 30, 2017
Issue: 2017-08-23, PHOTO: courtesy of the Went family
There’s Always a Stack of Books Hidden Under Their Quilts
The Yukon Imagination Library — non-profit organization that gives free books to Yukon children from birth to age four — is turning 10 this year. To celebrate the milestone we have collected reading stories from families who have used the library... more
Aug. 23, 2017
Issue: 2017-08-23, PHOTO: Dan Davidson
The Yukon is Great for Summer Travelling
Summer, with its long daylight hours, is a great time to travel around the Yukon. We started our travels the summer after we arrived, trading up from a VW Beetle to a Ford 150, and loading a second hand 8 ½ foot camper on the back. Over the next... more
Aug. 23, 2017
Issue: 2017-06-07, PHOTO: Jim McMynn
Tee Time in the Town of Faro
Faro Golf Club President Gary Jones remembers when it all started. “For our first tournament we drew circles on the soccer field to serve as holes,” he says. “There wasn’t much to do and not a lot of jobs. We used to hit golf balls around.” ... more
Jun. 07, 2017
Issue: 2017-04-26, PHOTO: Town of Faro
Wild Times
“They're a much more delicate bird, compared to the swans,” says Carrie McClelland, a wildlife viewing biologist with Environment Yukon. “They stand three and a half to four feet tall, with a six foot wingspan, but they only weigh around seven or... more
Apr. 26, 2017
Issue: 2017-03-08, PHOTO: courtesy of Peter Gould
The Evolution of a Home
Clinton Creek was one of the last company towns in the Yukon, part of a cluster that included Elsa and Faro. The mines in Clinton Creek and Faro were developed about the same time, but Clinton Creek had the misfortune to be based on mining... more
Mar. 08, 2017
Issue: 2016-12-14, PHOTO: Kim Melton
Slip-Sliding Away
If viewed on their own, the Hazards Maps produced by the Northern Climate ExChange might look like something inspired by a cartoon – which the project coordinator Dr. Bronwyn Benkert informs me is indeed the case. Coloured in with traffic light... more
Dec. 14, 2016
