Whitehorse


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We went to the Yukon Story and photos by Dorothy Dobbie


A quirky metal sculpture that pays tribute to Robert Service, a poet best known for his tales of the Klondike Gold Rush. S


eptember in Whitehorse is heartbreakingly lovely. All the birches and poplars are a brilliant gold, glowing against the dark green of the co- nifers under a bright blue sky. Te hills


in the distance turn to purple and pink at sunset. Te daytime temperatures hover around 24 degrees C. Te people of Whitehorse have taken


advantage of the natural green and gold colour scheme by painting many of their buildings a yellow-ochre colour match- ing the fall trees. Some of the buildings are trimmed with green. Touches of red and co- balt blue on the odd white or grey building show up here and there. Murals are painted on almost every free side-surface of the one- and two-storey and false-


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How to get there Flights to Whitehorse via


Vancouver on Air Canada or WestJet.


fronted buildings. Retail shop names conjure up the sto- ried past: Midnight Sun Gallery, Mac’s Firewood Books, and the Whitehorse General Store. It all carries a touch of romance, but there is a modern Star- bucks there, too. And of course, there is the Gold Pan Saloon. Te population of the city of White- horse is only about 30,000, but the citi- zens have everything they could want, including a local college that is doing


some brilliant research into phytoreme- diation, the science of cleaning up heavy metals from groundwater, using plants and even bacteria. Tey also test methods to grow


root vegetables in a short season. Research into creating cold-weather building prod-


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