Rope wreaths and Yukon steamers
Ruth Treskatis, volunteer and Janna Swales, executive director, proudly display their creations in...
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Ione Christensen
Getting Ready for Fall and Winter Birding
We’re getting ready for winter and so are the birds. They’re chirping and feeding everywhere and the sky is alive with flocks of all kinds.It’s so busy one of Yukon’s most avid birders, Tracey Allard, says fall can seem like...
Read MoreSummer Birding: It’s All About the Kids
In summer, birding is all about the kids.Or, chicks.After the spring blitz of migration and mating, many birds are rearing offspring and staying closer to their nests.It’s a time when many Yukoners stop birding.“Our forests are...
Read MoreTwenty Years of Pioneer Women Celebrated at the Hospital
Twenty years ago the late Madeleine Gould’s lengthy quest (1987-1996) to join the Yukon Order of Pioneers ended with a Supreme Court of Canada decision. Over the years a number of women in Dawson had supported this quest,...
Read MoreSenator, Mayor, Sourdough Wafflemaker
When Ione Christensen invited me into her home to talk sourdough, I could tell she’s done this before.I hadn’t gotten passed “Nice to meet you,” before she handed me a printout of recipes and a sample of...
Read MoreNew Canadians desire a better country
Canada Day means you can see Canadian citzenship happening in front of you.Outside the Shipyards Park pavilion, bordered by black speakers and rows of concert lights, 24 immigrants, representing eight countries, sit in three...
Read MoreA life on the edge
Ione Christensen, Yukon writer, mother, pioneer and politician, is writing an autobiography spanning three generations.The daughter of RCMP corporal G. I. Cameron and lay nurse Martha, Ione was raised in Fort Selkirk, a once...
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