The colourful interior of the Yukon legislative assembly.


In the middle of town, a quirky metal sculpture of a table with an inkwell and a chair pays tribute to poet Robert Service. A bust of Jack London, who wrote Call of the Wild, adorns Main Street. Tere are many murals featuring the history and wildlife of the Yukon. Tose who love this topic can take in the artifacts at the Mc- Bride Museum, while archeologists will want to visit the Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre. At the end of the long main street which ends at the river, the SS Klon- dike, a vintage sternwheeler, takes you back in time to the 1898 Klondike Gold Rush. Tere is even a transpor- tation museum featuring airplanes going back to bush pilot days and other early travel memorabilia. Downtown Whitehorse is snuggled between the Yu-


The startling beauty and colours of the outdoors is impos- sible to ignore.


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kon River and a ridge, so it's about eight blocks wide at its widest, making it seem very intimate, although there are suburbs that now sprawl across the river. Te town is protected by Grey Mountain to the east, Haeckel Hill to the northwest and Golden Horn Mountain to the south. Whitehorse is quite cosmopolitan; walking down the main streets you hear a lot of German and French being spoken. Young people come to the Yukon, fall in love with the place and stay. Audrey McLaughlin, former leader of the federal New Democratic Party and a local celebrity (who spends a fair bit of time in Winnipeg), says the town just keeps growing. She can’t figure out where they all work because there is so little industry outside of mining and government. But tourism has be- come big business with over 300,000 visitors a year. Tat means retail is an important employer as the shops are locally owned and authentic.


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