A Walking Tour of Whitehorse Yukon Look Up Canada! eBook Doug Gelbert
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There is no better way to see Canada than on foot. And there is no better way to appreciate what you are looking at than with a walking tour.
Each walking tour describes historical and architectural landmarks and provides pictures to help out when those pesky street addresses are missing. Every tour also includes a quick primer on identifying architectural styles seen on Canadian streets. The rapids in the Yukon River through Miles Canyon were so intimidating in the 19th century that they picked up their own name - White Horse Rapids because the frothing water resembled the flowing manes of charging white stallions. The First Nations’ peoples who visited here just camped on their way around the treacherous waters.
It took gold to lure travelers into the White Horse Rapids - the big strikes of the Klondike region in 1896. Many boats were lost in the canyon and there were five documented deaths. But it did not stop the stampeders from trying. Major General Sir Samuel Steele, the head of the Yukon detachment for the North-West Mounted Police marveled, “Why more casualties have not occurred is a mystery to me.”
Entrepreneurs constructed horse-drawn tram cars to ferry goods and small boats around the rapids on both sides of the Yukon River in 1897 but so many prospectors were bottlenecked at the rapids that a tent town called Canyon City emerged on the east bank at the head of the tram. By that time plans were being hatched hundreds of miles away to ease the congestion at the rapids blocking the way to the gold fields around Dawson.
Engineer Michael J. Heney was tasked with constructing a railway from the coast at Skagway, Alaska to the head of navigation on the Yukon River beyond the rapids. It was a daunting assignment but Heney had no doubts he could pull it off. “Give me enough dynamite and snoose and I’ll build a railroad to hell,” he boasted. He got 450 tons of explosives and 35,000 men to do the job. Work began on May 28, 1898 and 26 months and $10 million later a 110-mile narrow gauge railway to the newly named town of White Horse was complete. To clear the coastal mountains of Alaska and southern Yukon required climbs of 879 metres in 20 miles with no more than a 4% grade - the ground was so tough that when a golden spike was driven into final tie it buckled.
Unfortunately the gold rush was mostly over by the time the first trains of the White Pass and Yukon Route railroad steamed into White Horse. But the connection to river travel north caused the new town to boom anyway; Canyon City on the east bank wilted away in favour of the railroad town. In 1920 the first airplanes bounced onto primitive runways at White Horse and in 1942 the United States constructed the wartime Alaska Highway that linked the town to the national road grid for the first time.
The 1950s saw the city name consolidate to Whitehorse and the territorial capital slide down from Dawson. In 1958 the Yukon River was dammed and the rapids that determined the townsite disappeared forever under Schwatka Lake. In the 1980s the railroad stopped running and the driving force behind the growth of the Yukon’s largest city disappeared as well. But we’ll have a clear view of what remains of Whitehorse heritage on our downtown walking tour since, according to the Guinness World Records, this is the city with the least air pollution in the world...
A Walking Tour of Whitehorse Yukon Look Up Canada! eBook Doug Gelbert
I was happy to see this eBook about Whitehorse, here at Amazon. I LOVE the Yukon and will be moving back there soon. In the meantime, it was fun to "walk along" via the pages in this eBook, enjoying the sights and some of the history of Whitehorse, once again.I'm taking off 1 star as some of the titles etc, have wonky formatting in this eBook, taking away from the overall presentation. Also, a few more places of interest with photos would have been nice. No mention of Riverdale, Yukon River view, some of the other neighbourhoods in Whitehorse....
There was a lot of info about various housing types though, that I could have given a miss to.
Definitely worth the price though! :-)
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A Walking Tour of Whitehorse Yukon Look Up Canada! eBook Doug Gelbert Reviews
I was happy to see this eBook about Whitehorse, here at . I LOVE the Yukon and will be moving back there soon. In the meantime, it was fun to "walk along" via the pages in this eBook, enjoying the sights and some of the history of Whitehorse, once again.
I'm taking off 1 star as some of the titles etc, have wonky formatting in this eBook, taking away from the overall presentation. Also, a few more places of interest with photos would have been nice. No mention of Riverdale, Yukon River view, some of the other neighbourhoods in Whitehorse....
There was a lot of info about various housing types though, that I could have given a miss to.
Definitely worth the price though! -)
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