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Fine tastes for you and your buds – YG<br />
Sternwheeler S.S. Klondike on the riverfront – YG<br />
ABOUT<br />
OUR<br />
COMMUNITY<br />
Whitehorse<br />
During the rush to the Klondike in 1898,<br />
thousands of reckless adventurers battled<br />
ice, winds and churning rapids on their<br />
Yukon River voyage. The turbulent<br />
Whitehorse Rapids—so named because<br />
the rapids resembled the flowing manes<br />
of white horses—took lives and destroyed<br />
boats. The location below the rapids had<br />
long been a First Nations fishing site.<br />
Once the White Pass & Yukon Route<br />
railroad from Skagway, Alaska was<br />
completed, the settlement became a<br />
connecting point between the trains and<br />
Yukon River paddlewheelers. World War II<br />
brought the Alaska Highway to—and<br />
through—town, connecting it to the<br />
outside world and enabling it to grow<br />
into the city of Whitehorse.<br />
Today the Yukon’s capital city rightly claims<br />
to have it all. A classic Main Street<br />
ambience—coupled with great shopping,<br />
restaurants and quality visitor services—<br />
makes Whitehorse a superb destination<br />
and base for explorations around the<br />
Yukon. With golf courses, hot springs,<br />
excellent museums and plentiful<br />
accommodations, you won’t have to<br />
“go without” on a visit to Whitehorse.<br />
Population: 29,617<br />
LOCAL ATTRACTIONS<br />
S.S. Klondike National<br />
Historic Site<br />
The carefully restored S.S. Klondike, the<br />
largest sternwheeler to ply the upper Yukon<br />
River, is a Parks Canada National Historic Site.<br />
One of Whitehorse’s landmark attractions,<br />
this eye-catching vessel occupies a pretty<br />
site on the bank of the Yukon River. The S.S.<br />
Klondike is open daily for self-guided tours in<br />
the summer. Guided tours are also available.<br />
www.parkscanada.gc.ca/ssklondike<br />
Yukon Beringia<br />
Interpretive Centre<br />
During the last ice age, a vast region called<br />
Beringia extended from Siberia across Alaska<br />
and northern Yukon. Beringia escaped glaciation<br />
and became a refuge for plants, large animals like<br />
the woolly mammoth and steppe bison, and the<br />
first peoples of North America. Watch a film and<br />
explore exhibits including a full-size cast of a<br />
woolly mammoth. Located at Km 1422 on the<br />
Alaska Highway near the airport.<br />
www.beringia.com<br />
The fascinating story of an ice age refuge is told at the Beringia Interpretive Centre – YG, J. Kennedy<br />
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