Art is for the people. But sometimes, the art is by the people. This is exactly what Daphne Mennell has in mind for her art installation outside of the Public Safety Building in Whitehorse. When completed, it will be a horse rearing up, its tail roiling with the rapids from which our capital city got …
There are many old trails winding around the hills and kettle ponds north of Riverdale. These trails were used for horse logging; now they are great for mountain biking and walking. On a spring walk a few years ago, I noticed a seldom-used, slightly hidden trail emerging between two trees on a hillside. There was …
There’s a bit of this and a bit of that. There’s a pair of 1930s-era RCMP spurs, passed down through two generations of a Mountie family. There are wheels, axe-heads, a tackle box, a muffin tin, and a cast iron stove lid from the airport in Snag that survived the coldest day on record. There’s …
