The Japanese Canadian Association of Yukon (JCAY) will be hosting events this November in recognition of the 30th anniversary of the success of the Redress campaign in 1988.Fumi Torigai, former president of JACY, for 9 years,...
Read MoreThis year’s 16 Days of Action to End Gender-Based Violence was packed with some powerful events. The kick off at Epic Pizza featured the local talents of Emily Ross and the Ukes of Hazard.Following the kick off there were a...
Read MoreThe holiday season is a time of celebration. It is a time for friends, family and loved ones. But for Hospice Yukon, it is the time of year to offer support to grieving Yukoners during the Lights of Life, the original support...
Read MoreRemembrance Day has taken more meaning for me lately. Recently Yukon Archives shared some information about some Japanese from Dawson City who served in the First World War. This was a complete surprise to me. I wondered, Why...
Read MoreOnce upon a time there were quite a few Jews in the Klondike. They arrived with the other gold rush stampeders. There were enough of them that they established their own graveyard.But the Jewish presence in Dawson City nearly...
Read MoreDuring the Great War of 1914-1918, nearly a thousand Yukoners enlistedfor service in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, or fought for Britain, France and other Allied countries. Of these only a small handful were women. One woman...
Read MoreJim Christie was born in Scotland in 1867. He emigrated to Manitoba and then came to theKlondike in 1898. The short, wiry Scotsman took to living in the north like a duck to water. He prospected in the summers and trapped in the...
Read MoreJoe Boyle came to the Klondike with the first wave of gold-seekers in the early summer of1897, but soon left with a dream of becoming rich.He was successful in obtaining a large mining concession in the Klondike Valley from the...
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