When the first gold seekers arrived in the Yukon River basin, the…
When human memory is gone, much of our history goes with it.…
My wife Kathy recently acquired an interesting photograph from the Alaskan collection…
George Black had been the Yukon’s Member of Parliament for nearly 15…
When hiking the Chilkoot Trail, I had occasion to use the privy…
This year, we are celebrating the 125th anniversary of the passage of…
During the era of 19th century European colonialism in the new world,…
My column published in the print edition of the News on Jan.…
Over this Christmas past, I had the pleasure of reading a book,…
I was recently directed to a YouTube link that connected me to…
2023 marks a milestone in the history of the Yukon. On June…
The Yukon Archives celebrated its 50th birthday on Dec. 10 in its…
The Yukon was a different place when I first came here 51…
Michael Gates & Kathy Jones-Gates George Black was a lawyer, a soldier,…
The Whitehorse Star of Oct. 22, 1915, reported that the first all-Whitehorse…
I have been exchanging e-mails and telephone calls with Kathy Larson in…
Yukon history has been filled with heroes and adventurers like Joe Boyle,…
Moving pictures were invented by the Lumière Brothers in France in 1896,…
In July 1978, a hoard of silent movie films was uncovered from…
The Commissioner’s Residence, located prominently on Front Street in Dawson City, was…