The journey back down the Alaska Highway from Whitehorse to Calgary wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be; I rather enjoyed it actually and we used the midnight sun to our advantage. There were areas that should have been dark but because of the position of the sun it wasn’t and that made [...]
Archive > July 2003
Miles Canyon and Canyon City
One of the most treacherous areas on the Yukon River runs through Miles Canyon, an 8km long death trap. Here the Whitehorse rapids (what the city is named after) were so bad that boats only passed through the area if they were extremely brave or extremely stupid. By 1898, nearly 300 boats had been wrecked [...]
The Yukon Brewery
A trip into Whitehorse is not complete until you have done a tour of the Yukon Brewery (or so we were told numerous times). Thus, we went to the brewery for a mandatory tour. We arrived just as the last tour of the day was starting. Talk about excellent timing! The brewery is about the [...]
The S.S. Klondike
Parks Canada has converted the largest sternwheeler to work the Yukon River into a National Park. It is located on the bank of the Yukon River, at the end of the downtown strip, and is in complete dry dock. This is bad for a boat and everyone in Whitehorse knows this. During its 70-year history, [...]
Whitehorse
Whitehorse, 2339 km from Calgary As the story goes, Whitehorse is named after the violent rapids of the Yukon River. It is said that in the late 1800s the rapids in the area looked a lot like the flowing manes of charging white horses and the city was named for this. There are numerous works [...]
