Royal North West Mounted Police Whitehorse, Yukon, August 1907

In reference to the above photograph, was this like a 1907 patrol car of its day? Whitehorse probably had less than a few hundred citizens to police in those days. How many Mounties, I don't know. Just a handful, I imagine. There might have been the odd

In reference to the above photograph, was this like a 1907 patrol car of its day?

Whitehorse probably had less than a few hundred citizens to police in those days. How many Mounties, I don’t know. Just a handful, I imagine.

There might have been the odd early automobile running around Whitehorse’s gravel streets, alongside the many carts and wagons used in those days too.

Anybody with information about this subject, please write Jim Robb: The Colourful Five Per Cent Scrapbook – Can You Identify? c/o the Yukon News, 211 Wood Street, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 2E4, or e-mail through the News website, www.yukon-news.com.

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