Haines Junction
Issue: 2019-03-13, PHOTO: Bruce Binder
Spreading the JAM for 20 years
Junction Arts and Music (JAM) has a big year planned. After 20 years, close to 400 events and more than 17,000 attendees, they have a lot to celebrate. They kicked off their anniversary year in January, with Sarah MacDougall performing in Haines... Read more
Issue: 2019-03-06, PHOTO: courtesy of the Yukon Comedy Festival
Focus on the funny folk
Ricard Eden makes no apology for putting the focus of the Yukon Comedy Festival on the performers as much as on the audience. “We obviously want to bring up talent that residents are going to want to see and we want to make our ticket price... Read more
Issue: 2019-01-23, PHOTO: courtesy of Jodi Proznick
Music is a birthright
By her own admission, Jodi Proznick, an award-winning bassist and member of Triology, has enjoyed an “incredible performing career, and had opportunities really beyond anything I could have imagined for myself at the beginning of this journey.” Read more
Issue: 2018-12-19, PHOTO: Steve Wort
The last great road race
Blink and you might miss it. With top average speeds reaching 121 miles per hour (194.7 km/hour), the fastest riders in the Alcan 200 Road Rally set a blistering pace. You’re not alone in the Yukon if you’ve missed out on this under-the-radar... Read more
Issue: 2018-12-19: PHOTO: Pixabay
My first Christmas in the North: 1961
I was 11 years old when we moved from Dawson Creek, B.C. to Haines Junction, a community of perhaps 500 residents. It really wasn’t much of a shock leaving what I considered a “big place” for a small community at the base of the St. Elias... Read more
Issue: 2018-11-28, PHOTO: courtesy of Bruce Binder Photography
A junction of mountain film, culture and science in Kluane country
Like any person who’s ever driven into Haines Junction, the Kluane mountain range will take your breath away with its sheer beauty. Its residents live year-round in the small community that has had over 50 years of scientific research conducted in... Read more
Issue: 2018-11-07, PHOTO: Pixabay
We will remember them
It’s important to reflect each November 11th and remember those young men and women who gave their lives on behalf of their country. As time moves on, it’s important that our memories of what happened and our commitment to end conflict both remain... Read more
Issue: 2018-10-03, PHOTO: Henry Navarro
The Junction and JAR (Junction Artist in Residence)
Landing in Whitehorse for the first time, Henry Navarro Delgado arrived in the Yukon knowing nothing about the place. Delgado wanted to remain as open-minded as possible when he settled into the coveted Junction Artist in Residence (JAR) Program... Read more
Issue: 2018-10-03, PHOTO: Teresa Vander Meer-Chassé
Scavenging for Raven
Upper Tanana artist Teresa Vander Meer-Chassé has teamed up with Whitehorse-based artist Nicole Bauberger to create a scavenger hunt of installations and events this fall. The artists began collaborating a year ago around the idea that the... Read more
Issue: 2018-09-26, PHOTO: Alistair Maitland
Busting up in the communities
Open Pit Theatre is excited to be taking their play, Busted Up: A Yukon Story, on the road. They’ll be coming to Dawson City on September 29, Carcross on October 2 and will be back in Whitehorse for a show on October 3... Read more
Issue: 2018-09-12, PHOTO: Lauren Humble
Take a walk in Kluane
Fall is upon us. When I leave the house in the mornings now, the sun has yet to awaken. It feels too early in the season to see my breath, but here we are. Winter whispering at us does come with some pretty wicked benefits, though: the air is... Read more
Shawn Pollard
Yukon See It Here: Shawn Pollard
I took these with a drone on a hike into the Samuel Glacier last weekend, this hike is off the Haines Road. Read more
Issue: 2018-08-01, PHOTO: Darlene Sillery
Magic under the mountains
Haines Junction is gearing up for the second-annual Augusto Children`s Festival. With 28 workshops for kids aged five to 12, on puppet-making, magic, Southern Tutchone dance, circus skills, ukulele playing … and many more. It’s the Yukon’s only... Read more
Issue: 2018-07-18, PHOTO: Steve Israel, Yukon Geological Survey
A whole lotta quakin’ goin’ on
On Monday May 1, 2017, at around 5:30 a.m., a magnitude 6.2 earthquake landed near the B.C.–Yukon border, followed by another slightly stronger one at around 7:30 a.m. The rare event got a lot more people talking about seismic activity in the... Read more
Issue: 2018-07-04, PHOTO: Becauseeditor via wikimedia commons
Banjo Sammy's lonesome ride
Sammy Shelor, 55, of Meadows of Dan, Virginia, in the central Blue Ridge Mountains of northwestern North Carolina and southwestern Virginia, was literally born to play banjo on October 10, 1962. Both of his grandfathers were banjo pickers; and one... Read more
Issue: 2018-06-13, PHOTO: Susan Clark
Seniors on speed
What 69-year-old chooses an activity that routinely results in numb hands, painful wrists and soreness in an area that makes it difficult to perform certain necessary bodily functions? Well, it turns out that there are quite a number of these... Read more
Issue: 2018-06-13, PHOTO: Alistair Maitland Photography
National Aboriginal Day
It’s the longest day of the year, and what better way to appreciate this new Canadian statutory holiday than to visit local First Nations and to be part of this national celebration and enjoy live music, artist demonstrations, traditional food... Read more
Issue: 2018-05-30, PHOTO: Nicole-Marie Novodvorský
Kluane’s ‘not-so-secret’ Ice Cave
It was 6:30 a.m. on a Sunday morning in Whitehorse as my friend Nicole pulled into my driveway in her large black pickup truck. I threw my rucksack and snowshoes onto the back seat and we started our venture on the icy, dark Alaska Highway towards... Read more
Issue: 2018-05-30, PHOTO: courtesy of 1 Canadian Ranger Patrol
Rangin’ off to Ontario
Members of the Haines Junction Junior Canadian Rangers (JCR) attended the annual JCR National Marksmanship Championship in St. Catharines, Ontario, in early May. In total, 63 rangers from across the country competed in the event held at the... Read more
Issue: 2018-05-16, PHOTO: Harry Kern
Bluegrass, ‘newgrass,’ straight-ahead country and more ...
June is a special month in Kluane country ... The angry, muddy rivers of May have settled to their calm and clear spring moods. The vast aspen stands below the mixed pine and spruce have burst with their blanket of fresh green. The impossibly... Read more