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, moved north in 2012 after her 30-year marriage and then-Alberta-based job came to an end. One of her sons, who lived in Inuvik, knew how much she loved Whitehorse and …
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 certainly felt like kismet when they met on April 16, 1966. “Joy was having a party and needed a couple of extra guys,” he says. “I got a phone call …
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 and saved by Mary’s family in Pennsylvania. He was a British teacher who came to Canada in 1910 and became a Mountie. She was an American farm girl-turned-nurse on the …
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, a graduate of the Yukon Native Teacher Education Program and curriculum developer notes how prevalent First Nations children are in Yukon schools. “Statistics show that about a quarter of the …
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 women. “We are always trying to connect with young women,” says Kim Solanick, YWITT’s executive director, “and we created a fun online survey – with prizes – to make that …
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 by C.D.H. MacAlpine flew into Canada’s Barren Lands in the Northwest Territories in search of mineral riches. Instead, they found themselves trapped in an unforgiving landscape without proper equipment or …
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 floats crashed in Carmacks, killing four on-duty RCMP officers — Sgt. Morley Laughland, Cp. Robert Asbil, Const. William Annand and Const. Laurence Malcolm — and a prisoner, 56-year-old Joseph Philippe …
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Alice and Arthur John of Ross River started their marriage in the traditional Dena way — their families arranged it. “Mom said she was about 15-years old when they first started going together [in 1932],” says daughter Dorothy John. “Most of the First Nations marriages were arranged at the time. Then in 1935 they got …
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 Force pilot stationed in St. Catharines, Ontario for flight training. He was a long way from his family’s mine at Nugget Hill outside of Dawson City, but he was pursuing …
Tammy Lee Josie first performed her family’s Vuntut Gwitchin stories at the Yukon International Storytelling Festival
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 Golden Horn Elementary School in Whitehorse wrote, photographed and self-published Island Experiences as an e-book in February. Recently, as a tenth birthday present, her mother Moe Boksa and step-dad Ian …
