Yukon celebrates its 100th anniversary.
Patrick L. Michael is Clerk of Yukon Legislative Assembly and Chief Electoral Officer. To mark the 100th anniversary of the establishment of Yukon Territory following the Gold Rush of 1898, the Legislative Assembly travelled to Dawson City and held a one-day special ceremonial sitting in the original...

Beaver River Gas Well A5 Producing 18 million Cubic Feet of Natural Gas Per Day; Additional Re-Entry Well Planned for Summer 2001.
VIENNA, Austria, April 10 /PRNewswire/ -- EuroGas, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: EUGS) announces that the A5 re-entry well in the Beaver River gas field has been on stream since March 20, 2001, and has been producing 18 million cubic feet of natural gas per day (mmcf/d), according...

Drilling in the maternity ward.
What exactly would opening Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to oil drilling mean? That is exactly what Karsten Heuer sets out to find in Being Caribou (The Mountaineers Books, $24.95). In the tome, Heuer and his newlywed wife, Leanne Allison, set off on a harrowing adventure, trekking more...

Evidence of recent treeline dynamics in southwest Yukon from aerial photographs.
ABSTRACT. Small-scale vertical aerial photographs taken in 1947 and 1948 covering 200 [km.sup.2] of the Kluane Ranges, southwest Yukon, were compared with corresponding photographs taken in 1989 for the purpose of characterizing changes in the distribution and abundance of white spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss) at the alpine treeline....

The life and death of Kwaday Dan Ts'inchi, an ancient frozen body from British Columbia: clues from remains of plants and animals.
Abstract: The body of a prehistoric Aboriginal man (Kwaday Dan Ts'inchi, LongAgo Person Found) was recovered in 1999 from a melting glacier in northwestern British Columbia. The frozen man was lying at 1,600 metres above sea level and about fifty kilometres from the Chilkat River estuary in southeastern Alaska....

Forget the sunny south, aim for the natural north (wilderness vacations in Indian country).
Windspeaker Staff Writer WHITEHORSE, YT Holiday. Vacation. The mere mention of the words conjures up images of white sandy beaches, palm trees, hotel rooms with ocean views and postcards to make the friends back home drool with envy. But, recently, more and more...

Post-secondary education in the Yukon: the last thirty years.
This article first appeared in the Northern Review 12/13 (Summer/Winter 1994), 90-105. "In the North," goes an oft-repeated truism, "geography is the challenge." Yet, as intimidating as the region's geography may be, a second challenge also figures prominently in the development of social, educational, and judicial services...

Royal Caribbean Introduces New Alaskan Adventures.
Passengers Explore Alaska with Additional Land, Sea and Air Excursions on Offer MIAMI, Dec. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- If sledding with huskies in Juneau, exploring the wild Yukon in Skagway, and searching for bears in Ketchikan sound like perfect thrill-seeking journeys, guests aboard Royal Caribbean International's Alaska cruises...

Downstream migrations of juvenile salmon and other fishes in the upper Yukon River.
ABSTRACT. The Yukon River is the fourth largest river in North America, yet the ecology of its fishes has not been well described. During the spring and summer of 2002-04, we sampled the downstream migrations of fishes in the Yukon River mainstem near the Canada-U.S. border, using a rotary...

From the Atelier Tovar: Selected Writings.
From the Atelier Tovar: Selected Writings by Guy Maddin. Toronto: Coach House Books. 2003. 239pp., illus. Paperback: $19.95. In 1978, construction workers in Dawson City, Canada--an old boomtown in the Yukon Territory--discovered 510 reels of silent movies buried in a former swimming pool. The films played in...