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Canada Daze

Barrelling toward a strange kind of death

The New Canadian Establishment

How will life change when the West takes over?

Michael Gates

Michael Gates is the author of Hollywood in the Klondike.

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Freeze Frame

Buried treasure in a gold rush town December 2022
Dawson City, the centre of the Klondike gold rush of 1897 and 1898, is a remote town underlain by permafrost. The first gravel road coming up from Whitehorse was not completed until 1955. Before that, for about five months out of the year the main access to the town was by boat, and when the Yukon River froze…