My Yukon Life

15/10/2024

Happy Thanksgiving!

How many of you are wearing sweatpants at the dinner table?

21/07/2024

I love wildlife cams. And something is always happening in the Yukon.

01/07/2024

Happy Canada Day!

(Photo by Jennifer Hawks)

16/04/2024

Nice.

20/02/2024

Travel Yukon just released an epic promo video. How many places and Yukoners do you recognize?

The Yukon in winter is beautiful, yet rugged. Fun, yet freezing. Unique, yet remote. It's a one-of-a-kind trip that attracts a certain type of traveller. One...

11/10/2023

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/haines-junction-accident-dog-reunion-1.6992126?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar

An Oklahoma man, grieving the recent loss of his daughter in a highway accident, has been touched by the kindness of some strangers in Haines Junction, Yukon, who are working to reunite him with his beloved dog.

09/10/2023

Happy Thanksgiving! What's on the menu tonight?

01/07/2023

A 50-year-old time capsule was recently recovered in Whitehorse, Yukon. Only two people remain who knew about this buried treasure. It was thanks to one of them, Donna Clayson, who ensured it was unearthed. Soon, the contents will be revealed by a conservator who has been tasked with making sure the delicate items are preserved.

https://www.yukon-news.com/local-news/50-year-old-time-capsule-recovered-from-former-vocational-school/?fbclid=IwAR33ufVfmYcFQaweeYhIaGXz0Ti6wsd_4NNx8q5DCRg8tkYvPDaGnlOYC2E

Conservator has been tasked with retrieving the documents inside

01/07/2023

Happy Canada Day!

08/01/2023

These sisters are helping to preserve the Dän k'è (Southern Tutchone) language. Together, they wrote a dictionary many years in the making.

Two sisters, members of the Champagne and Aishihik First Nations in the Yukon, created a pocket-size dictionary of Southern Tutchone words to help preserve the Indigenous language.

11/12/2022

Explorer Bradford Washburn's camera from 1937 was discovered on Mount Lucania in the Yukon

https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/explorers-camera-1930s-found-glacier-yukon-territory/story?id=92074734&fbclid=IwAR33lcGO2AsT56S7eI_EjJIAm1AwoWhwqNP3AM4zt2Iu7WIzdRRIZbVa7PI

Equipment from a 1937 expedition in the Yukon territory of Canada left by Bradford Washburn was found this year in an expedition started by skier Griffin Post.

15/11/2022

Ice "pom-poms" in the Yukon.

This cool photo was taken "along the pathway underneath the Riverdale Bridge," said Tina Cyr.

Nature sure is capable of creatng some incredible sights.

Thanks for sharing this with us, Tina.
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29/10/2022

Growing pineapples at home at an off-grid cabin? Who knew this was possible? Well, apparently, it's quite possible.

Dawson City resident Andrew Timms has done something he believes no resident has done before. He's grown his own pineapples — an experiment he says all started with a trip to the grocery store and a little curiosity.

28/10/2022

25/10/2022

A Royal Canadian Air Force CT-156 Harvard II parked beneath the Northern Lights in Whitehorse, Yukon.

10/10/2022

It's a wonderful time of the year in the Yukon.

Fall colour on Keno Hill, Yukon Territory. The cabin is a building from the Sheep Camp mining camp which was running in the 1920's. I just love fall in the Yukon Territory.

06/10/2022

Early '60s glamping on (most likely) the Nisutlin River...
Found amongst the summer photos of an unknown Teslin airport employee circa 1960. These tents were heavy, ugly, and needed an engineering degree to assemble.
(Photo Source: GJM archives)

17/09/2022

Have you been to Tombstone yet? It's a magical place.

One of my favorite places that we have visited in the Yukon is Tombstone Territorial Park. Fall transforms the park into something spectacular. The tundra is painted with colour and texture from the many types of shrubs, grasses, plants and lichens. It is a feast for the eyes, leaving me with an insatiable appetite for more.