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August 2023 - Whitehorse Yukon

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KLONDIKE KETTLE

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Skagway Alaska

KING

KING KAMEHAMEHA KAPAAU Big Island Hawaii

Taylor House Whitehorse Yukon

 August 2023 - Whitehorse Yukon 

The Taylor House was built in 1937 by Bill and Aline Taylor and their family. In 2015, it officially became Yukon Government House when the Office of the Commissioner of Yukon moved in. The Commissioner of Yukon is the territory’s Head of State and performs legislative and social duties.

Bill Taylor was the oldest son of Isaac Taylor who founded the Taylor and Drury business with William Drury in 1899. Aline Cyr’s family was one of the first francophone families in Whitehorse. In 1969, the family sold the house to the Yukon Chamber of Mines. Over the years, it was the home to the Yukon Heritage Resources Board and the Arctic Winter Games office. The exterior of the house looks the same as it did when built but the inside has been turned into office space.

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SCOTLAND - The FIRTH OF FORTH (Scottish Gaelic: Linne Foirthe) is the estuary, or firth, of several Scottish rivers including the River Forth. It meets the North Sea with Fife on the north coast and Lothian on the south.

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FALL FOLIAGE

FLOWER

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August 2023 - Whitehorse Yukon

Asia Hyde is the designer and illustrator behind the new mural in downtown Whitehorse. Hyde said she stayed away from the "standard Whitehorse mural themes," wanting her art to be more imaginative and less historical.

"It's still kind of Yukon-y. A little bit fantastical and a little bit whimsical," she said.

"I wanted to go with something kind of relaxing that a lot of people might enjoy. So, we ended with fish, very big fish and a very small island," said the Whitehorse-born artist.
The painting features large fish in and out of the water surface and a small island with cherry blossom trees surrounding it. The mural comes in various shades of blue, orange, bright pink, and tones of purple.

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August 2023 - Whitehorse Yukon

The lower floor of the north wall of the RBC Royal Bank building at 4110 - 4th Avenue, facing the parking lot, hosts a mural by Lance Burton, showing a White Pass & Yukon Route steam locomotive behind men building the new railway.

This is the route we took into Skagway Alaska.

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Whitehorse Yukon airport code is YXY

YAK : to talk persistently : CHATTER

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August 2023 - Whitehorse Yukon

NorthwesTel's main office parking lot is the beneficiary of this grand piece. This is one of 5 murals painted by Lance Burton and a crew of 10 talented young assistants from the Youth of Today Society in 1998.

It depicts miners doing the arduous climb over the mountains in the quest for gold.. 

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August 2023 - Whitehorse Yukon

Bill Oster painted the mural depicting a miner resting in his tent that graces the rear wall of Klondike Rib & Salmon, 2116 - 2nd Avenue.

I was looking forward to eating here but it had closed down.

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August 2023 - Whitehorse Yukon

This scene of dog sledding at sunset is on the 3rd Avenue wall of The Claim (formerly The Chocolate Claim), at 305 Strickland Street. It was painted by Colin Alexander.

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August 2023 - Whitehorse Yukon

I can't find any information on this mural, I even uploaded the photo to Google Camera and got nothing.

John found it in behind a government(?) building.

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August 2023 - Whitehorse Yukon

The parking lot behind the Hougen's retail complex on Main Street was painted to look like a frontier main street during the filming of a movie in 1993. The work of Haines Junction artist Lance Burton and the Youth of Today Society, this was the first of Whitehorse's murals.

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August 2023 - Whitehorse Yukon

A shed behind Riverside Grocery at 201 Lowe Street received a mural by Colin Alexander in 2015, and the process of painting it was captured by Christopher di Armani. The name of the city of Whitehorse came from the White Horse Rapids, whose foaming crests were said to make some people think of the manes of a herd of white horses.

In the McBride Museum we saw this painting.

The White Horse Rapids swiftly became known as the greatest peril on the Trail of '98. More treacherous than Miles Canyon or Five Finger Rapids, the White Horse Rapids were in fact the greatest threat to navigation on the entire Yukon River. For many who tried to conquer the turbulent water in this area, the waves resembled the long flowing manes of white charging horses.

This painting depicting the rapids has recently been moved to the Land and Light Gallery. Painting by Edith Jerome.

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August 2023 - Whitehorse Yukon

Located facing the parking lot at Triple J's Music at 308 Elliott Street, this mural by Colin Alexander shows the sternwheelers Australian and William Ogilvie at Canyon City, on the Yukon River just above Whitehorse.

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August 2023 - Whitehorse Yukon

DURING THE POSTWAR BOOM, WHITEHORSE was rapidly becoming the capital of Yukon. Everything about the city struggled to keep pace. As a result, buildings of slightly more epic proportions were created, the likes of which no frontier town had seen before, or likely will again.

When a massive influx of military personnel and laborers arrived to work on three major construction projects—the Alaska Highway, the North West Staging Route airports, and the Canol Pipeline–during the post-war boom, housing was at a premium in the once sleepy town of Whitehorse.


That’s when a septuagenarian named Martin Berrigan had a magnificently outsized idea. In blending the frontier aesthetic and resourcefulness of log cabins with the urban practicalities of stacking human beings like sardines, Berrigan took a small step in solving Whitehorse’s housing crisis (while providing himself with supplemental retirement income) by constructing a pair of “log skyscrapers,” the city’s first privately-built, multiple-dwelling rental accommodation.

Using logs that weighed 300 pounds each and stacking them 58-tall to a total height of three stories, Berrigan made sure his skyscrapers could withstand the harshness of the wilderness while retaining the awe-inspiring, standalone power of buildings found in more traditional city skylines. While Berrigan’s creations surely succeeded beyond his wildest dreams, he passed away in 1950, just two years after completing the log skyscrapers. Over the years, the units were modernized and have since taken on a life as the proper apartment buildings they are today.

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August 2023 - Whitehorse Yukon

In the alley behind Mac's Fireweed Books at 203 Main Street is this wrap-around mural painted by Lance Burton and the Youth of Today Society.

Tuesday Treasures

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August 2023 - Whitehorse Yukon

The Whitehorse Star is one of two newspapers in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada. When founded in 1900 it appeared only once a week, and its progress to Monday through Friday publication occurred in fits and starts; it was issued twice a week for a time, and then three times a week in the 1960s and five times a week from around 1980 to 1982. In 1982, the paper changed to publishing three times a week. The paper returned to publishing five times a week in 1985 until 2019. 

The Star's official motto, "Illegitimus non Carborundum", is a Dog Latin aphorism meaning "You mustn't let the bastards grind you down". The motto is incorporated into the newspaper's logo, and is displayed on its website.

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MOOSE Whitehorse Yukon

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MUDDY in Tuktoyaktuk Northwest Territories

MINI

MINI MODEL condo development