How real life can inform fiction
In the course of his Massey Lecture series in 2013 (published as Blood: The Stuff of Life,...
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Berton House
A tale of Arctic exploration
Yukon author Eva Holland has taken advantage of Amazon’s Kindle Singles format to produce what might have been a 45-page volume about the early history of Arctic exploration.
Read MorePeople who crafted the promise of Canada
Continuing this series of reviews of books that deal with the Canadian identity and, to an extent, with the idea of Canada at 150, we come to the latest book by former Berton House writer-in-residence Charlotte Gray.It’s called...
Read MoreA Tale of the Klondike Tailings
Despite the romantic image of the grizzled miner panning by the creek side in search of gold, that phase of the Klondike’s mineral saga was relatively short.Entrepreneurial minds knew of more efficient and less-labour intensive...
Read MoreSOVA at 10
When talking about the location of the Yukon School of Visual Arts (Yukon SOVA) in Dawson City, two issues are often raised:What does the location do for students? What does it do for the town?Kyla McArthur, who works at SOVA as...
Read MoreRooted in the Yukon
Toronto-based poet Claire Caldwell’s role as writer-in-residence at the Berton House inDawson City ends this month.Caldwell is no stranger to the Yukon. She lived in Whitehorse from ages three to nine.These years had a deep...
Read MoreStories for Gold
Each year the Klondike Visitors Association works with the Writers’ Trust of Canada, Parks Canada, and the Dawson Community Library to put on the Authors on Eighth Walking Tour during the week before Discovery Days.Connected to...
Read MoreChasing Stories in Skagway
My shakedown cruise for our trailer has come to be my annual pilgrimage to the town ofSkagway to attend the North Words Writers’ Symposium, held this year from May 25-28 in the windy town. This was the seventh annual event, of...
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