History Hunter Articles

09-08-21 – There is plenty of history hidden around Whitehorse

23-07-21 – Old Yukon postcards open a window into the past

11-07-21 – From gold rush to COVID-19, mail has been an essential service

27-06-21 – When Governor-General Byng came to town…

13-06-21 – What was Whitehorse like in 1947?

29-05-21 – Baseball has a long history in the Yukon

14-05-21 – New novel a gripping account of the gold rush

01-05-21 – Canadian explorer with a Yukon connection

16-04-21 – Yukon man relives the riverboat days after seven decades

02-04-21 – “Penny Wise” and her SS Klondike Cruise

21-03-21 – A Different Race: Hardship, Racism and a Court-Martial on the Alcan

05-03-21 – And the Yukon’s first newspaper was ….

19-02-21 – Kwanlin Dün — a book of history, hardship and hope

06-02-21 – Exploring Yukon’s history attic

22-01-21 – Charles Fripp — gold rush artist

08-01-21 – The Commissioner’s Levee — a tradition for more than a century

19-12-20 – When Joe Boyle’s daughter came to visit

05-12-20 – The Yukon is rich in hidden history

20-11-20 – Beatrice Lorne — The ‘Klondike Nightingale’

10-10-20 – Fake news is old news in the Yukon

26-03-20 – How the Yukon was spared the influenza pandemic of 1918

12-03-20 – The long — but satisfying — search for truth in history

27-02-20 – Yukoners honoured for their contributions to Yukon history

14-02-20 – Will Rogers and Wiley Post: Their historic visit to the Yukon

16-01-20 – Old scrapbook tells story of Yukon tourism in the early days

19-12-20 – When Joe Boyle’s daughter came to visit

05-12-20 – The Yukon is rich in hidden history

20-11-20 – Beatrice Lorne — The ‘Klondike Nightingale’

10-10-20 – Fake news is old news in the Yukon

26-03-20 – How the Yukon was spared the influenza pandemic of 1918

12-03-20 – The long — but satisfying — search for truth in history

27-02-20 – Yukoners honoured for their contributions to Yukon history

14-02-20 – Will Rogers and Wiley Post: Their historic visit to the Yukon

16-01-20 – Old scrapbook tells story of Yukon tourism in the early days

12-13-18 – The misfortune of ‘Hard Luck’ Harper

12-01-18 – It was Klondike Kate vs. Klondike Kate on TV

10-18-18 – New book honours fallen Yukoners of World War I

10-04-18 – A tribute to the Palace Grand Theatre

09-20-18 – Paying Homage to the Yukon fallen of World War I

09-06-18 – Musings from a history hunter abroad

08-23-18 – The war book that Robert Service never wrote

08-09-18 – Yukoners fought at the battle of Amiens

07-26-18 – How a Dawson schoolboy became a war hero

07-12-18 – Some women won the marriage lottery in the Klondike

07-05-18 – Front Street in Dawson City was a Klondike Broadway

06-14-18 – The Dawson Daily News comes back to life

05-31-18 – George Patton Mackenzie: hidden in history

05-17-18 – Mad trappers are a tradition in the Yukon

04-05-18 – Magazine salesman captured the colourful Yukoners

03-22-18 – The remarkable voyage of the SS Newsweek Inc.

03-01-18 – Heritage awards honour Yukoners

02-15-18 – The Fortymile was a dangerous river

02-01-18 – The rising sun in the land of the midnight sun

01-25-18 – Kwädąy Dän Ts’ìnchį opens window to the past

12-16-16 – Celebrating Christmas on the Creeks

12-09-16 – Tex Rickard: From Dawson City to Madison Square Garden

11-18-16 – Early Yukon automobiles were a novelty

11-10-16 – Passchendaele: Remembering Yukon’s brave and fallen soldiers

11-04-16 – The Peace River trail to the Yukon

10-28-16 – The overland trail from Edmonton to the Klondike

10-21-16 – New documentary links Dawson City to Hollywood

10-14-16 – The Dawson City film find hits the silver screen

10-07-16 – Slaughter on the Klondike Trail

09-30-16 – The great cattle drives to the Klondike

09-23-16 – Cattle drive to Slaughterhouse Slough

09-16-16 – Sam Steele: the man behind the “Lion of the North”

09-09-16 – Frances Muncaster: From socialite to wilderness woman

09-02-16 – The towns where silver was king

08-26-16 – Pioneer banner a reminder of community spirit

08-19-16 – Mike Mancini: Keeper of the Keno City flame

08-12-16 – The History Hunter takes a museum road trip

08-12-16 – Klondike Sun donates film photo archive to Dawson City museum

08-05-16 – Barney West: the last man executed in the Yukon

07-29-16 – A long, strange trip for Dawson mystery photos

07-22-16 – Their Own Yukon: a new and improved edition

07-15-16 – New Gold Rush book disappoints

07-08-16 – First Nation and European histories intersect at Carcross

06-30-16 – Jack London stories filled with Yukon history

06-24-16 – William Ogilvie chronicled the time before the gold rush

06-17-16 – History Hunting on the Hepburn Trail

06-10-16 – Mystery object shines light on Dawson’s history

06-08-16 – Rain fails to dampen spirits at Jack London Festival

06-03-16 – The story of Kate Carmack revealed in new book

05-27-16 – Historic telegraph office re opened after many years

05-20-16 – World War I conference adds to Yukon history

05-13-16 – Cad Wilson – and such a nice girl too

05-06-16 – Two gunned down at event in Skagway

04-29-16 – New exhibit to reveal Jewish gold rush history

04-22-16 – Yukon beyond the Armistice

04-15-16 – Words and music to go to war to

04-08-16 – Celebration at war’s end and remembering the fallen

04-01-16 – The Homefront: Dawson City during the First World War

03-24-16 – May conference will add new pages to Yukon’s history book

03-18-16 – The mystery of the Orpheum Theatre Part 2

03-11-16 – Death toll rises with the approach of war’s end

02-26-16 – The History Hunter looks back and ahead

02-19-16 – Recipients honoured with annual Yukon Heritage Awards

02-05-16 – The quilt of many names

01-29-16 – History vs. Hollywood

01-22-16 – Every picture tells a story

01-15-16 – New book charts history of Yukon River steamers

12-18-15 – The Yukon celebrates a very northern Christmas

12-11-15 – Meet the fortunate Bridget Mannion

12-04-15 – Throwback Thursday event at MacBride a big success

11-27-15 – New book remembers the squatters of Whitehorse

11-13-15 – When the miners’ committee ruled

11-06-15 – Remembering the wounded, the brave and the dead of World War I

10-30-15 – Election hijinks in the Yukon

10-23-15 – New book and film remember ‘Operation Husky’

10-16-15 – Robert Service and the crimson harvest

10-09-15 – People help put a human face on the past

10-02-15 – The story of the notorious Vaglio murders

09-25-15 – A Dawson girl in the war zone

09-18-15 – The Shooting of Robert Service (almost)

09-11-15 – New book reveals early Skagway

09-04-15 – Today’s Millennium Trail was once a gold rush thoroughfare

08-28-15 – A tale of four travellers

08-21-15 – Chief Jim Boss is remembered as a great leader

08-14-15 – Finding the story within a story: logging on the Yukon Ditch

08-07-15 – Chief Isaac: The gentle diplomat

07-31-15 – Breaden family had deep roots in the Yukon

07-10-15 – Taylor House dedicated to its new role

07-03-15 – How not to teach Yukon history to a six year old

06-19-15 – The Black family returns to the Klondike

06-12-15 – Early Yukon politics was a rowdy affair

06-05-15 – Four are honoured by Yukon Transportation Hall of Fame

05-22-15 – When the Yukon battled for the Stanley Cup

05-15-15 – Students reveal history at heritage fair

05-08-15 – Saloons, Prostitutes and Temperance in Alaska: a book review

05-01-15 – Two Yukoners were awarded the Victoria Cross

04-24-15 – The two worlds of Eskimo Welzl

04-17-15 – Let’s remember the Yukoners who fought at Vimy Ridge during the First World War

04-10-15 – The woman who ran the Yukon

04-02-15 – Mrs. Black goes to war

03-27-15 – Yukon women and the Great War

03-13-15 – A Mohawk in the Klondike

03-06-15 – New book chronicles the Klondike’s biggest winner

03-04-15 – Building the Dempster Highway: an engineering challenge

02-27-15 – Black pioneer speaks at exhibit launch

02-20-15 – Let’s celebrate our heritage champions

02-13-15 – Book reveals heartbreak in Dawson City

02-06-15 – Joe Boyle was one of the Yukon’s most heroic figures

01-30-15 – Aircraft being restored at Yukon Transportation Museum

01-23-15 – A day in the life of Dawson City, 1899

01-16-15 – Robert Service, Country Joe and the Great War

12-12-14 – The story of the riverboat Brainstorm

12-05-14 – Some Yukon history books for Christmas

11-28-14 – New book chronicles Yukon Sports

11-21-14 – WWI letters detail lives of Yukon recruits

11-14-14 – Yukon’s World War I soldiers are not forgotten

11-11-14 – Remembering the CANOL at the MacBride Museum

11-07-14 – The sinking of the Sophia marked the end of an era

10-31-14 – Pearl Keenan remembers the Alaska Highway

10-24-14 – How I spent my vacation

10-17-14 – The amazing story of ‘Grizzly Bear’ Christie

10-10-14 – Wanted: memories of the Alaska Highway

10-08-14 – The story behind the tramlines of Windy Arm

10-03-14 – Celebrating Jim Robb’s Yukon

09-26-14 – The History Hunter goes into seclusion

09-12-14 – The Yukon machine gun battery in the fields of France

08-29-14 – The Boyle Machine Gun Battery was filled with heroes

08-15-14 – Inside the Gold Room at Bear Creek

08-01-14 – War is declared in the Yukon

07-18-14 – It all came down to the ‘clean up’

06-27-14 – Time for summer history reading

06-20-14 – T.W. O’Brien: The Klondike’s great industrialist

06-13-14 – Three inducted into Transportation Hall of Fame

06-06-14 – “Never lose your sense of wonder”

05-30-14 – It was the beer that made the Klondike famous

05-23-14 – Fort Selkirk, part 2: a treasure bypassed by time

05-16-14 – Dawson film find yields more secrets

05-09-14 – The long history of Fort Selkirk, part 1

05-02-14 – The fertile history of Pelly River Ranch

04-25-14 – Yukon history fact of fiction?

04-23-14 – Yukoners recognized for heritage work

04-17-14 – Revealing the wicked side of Dawson

04-11-14 – Diamond Tooth Gertie: from dance hall to prayer hall

04-04-14 – White Pass and Yukon Route defines the origin of Whitehorse

03-28-14 – Yukon’s army without a war

03-21-14 – Nellie Cashman: the angel of the north

03-14-14 – Has Yukon government gone a bridge too far?

03-07-14 – Ancient volcano blew winds of change

02-28-14 – Yukon and the flu epidemic of 1918 Part 2

02-21-14 – Yukon and the flu epidemic of 1918 Part 1

02-14-14 – Searching for Dr. Varicle

02-07-14 – The formation of the engineering profession in the Yukon

01-31-14 – International manhunt leads to the Klondike

01-24-14 – The Klondike goes Hollywood

01-17-14 – An aviation love triangle

01-10-14 – New book reveals early Yukon exploration

12-13-13 – Early Klondike Christmases were rough affairs

12-06-13 – New book revisits the ‘Lost Patrol’

11-29-13 – Prominent Klondike miner rose from whiskey peddler to MP

11-22-13 – New Whitehorse book a Christmas winner

11-15-13 – Gold Run Creek was once a busy place

11-08-13 – Yukoners fought in the Great War

11-01-13 – Alberta tour reveals unexpected Yukon connection

10-25-13 – Yukon History to be revealed in 3 D

10-18-13 – Unraveling the mystery of Esther Lyons

10-11-13 – Cad Wilson and Such A Nice Girl, Too

10-04-13 – Dick North: Farewell to Yukon’s great storyteller

09-25-13 – The moving of Dredge No. 4: a unique engineering feat

09-20-13 – Unravelling the George Carmack Story

09-13-13 – Expensive CANOL project still raises eyebrows

09-06-13 – A honeymoon in the Klondike: Part 2

08-30-13 – A honeymoon in the Klondike, Part I

08-16-13 – Mounted Police history traced in reissue of Law of the Yukon

08-09-13 – Yes Virginia, there is a Klondike Kate

08-02-13 – This famous actress had an extended run in the Klondike

07-19-13 – Slaughter on the Klondike trail

07-12-13 – Life and death on Black Hills Creek

07-05-13 – Some good summer history reading

06-28-13 – When hunting wild game was big business in the Yukon

06-21-13 – Showdown on a Skagway dock

06-14-13 – Was the Klondike really discovered by the Russians?

06-07-13 – The truth about Soapy Smith revealed in new book

05-31-13 – The History Hunter celebrates a milestone

05-31-13 – Canadian Museum Association invades Whitehorse

05-24-13 – When beef was more valuable than gold

05-17-13 – History hunting in Victoria

05-10-13 – Early days of nursing in the Yukon were no picnic

05-03-13 – The Horatio Alger story of Clarence Berry

04-26-13 – The rise and fall of a Klondike king: Pat Galvin

04-19-13 – The man who saved the Yukon at the world’s fair

04-12-13 – The Yukon nearly missed the Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition

03-22-13 – an old photo prompts an adventure of discovery

03-15-13 – has canada given up on saving yukons national heritage

03-08-13 – the battle of the rainmakers in 1906

03-01-13 – Three little boats played a big part in Yukon history

02-22-13 – history that came from the deep

02-15-13 – the percy dewolfe race is a tribute to early mail carriers

02-08-13 – the yukon quest reminds us of the early days of dog mushing

02-01-13 – in the yukon outside has a special meaning

01-25-13 – Chief Isaac: The gentle diplomat

01-18-13 – saving the ss klondike part 2

01-18-13 – Parks cuts affect far more than guided tours

01-16-13 – Pioneer historian Iris Warner dies at 86

01-11-13 – ss klondike the yukon river icon part 1

01-04-13 – Why did Dyea disappear?

12-14-12 – Early Yukon politics were pretty darn nasty

12-07-12 – the trouble with the teslin trail

11-30-12 – frank slim broke trail for his generation

11-23-12 – A tale of two pianos

11-16-12 – yukon wings takes off from transportation museum

11-09-12 – Wartime invasion of the Yukon reshaped the territory

11-02-12 – The Yukon adventure of the Englishman and the cowboy

10-26-12 – this was whitehorse in october 1902

10-12-12 – Will Yukon’s MP champion Yukon’s threatened heritage?

10-05-12 – Finding Prairie roots for a Yukon adventure

09-28-12 – celebrating the joy of treks

09-21-12 – Memories of the early day riverboats

09-14-12 – early prospectors faced starvation privation and scurvy

08-31-12 – a snow monster and a convoy invade whitehorse

08-24-12 – Watson Lake was a war baby

08-24-12 – The ground we stand on

08-10-12 – this yukon pioneer was a champion of historic preservation

08-03-12 – the hills are alive with the sound of history

07-27-12 – Mass murder in the Yukon’s past

07-13-12 – Summer brings a bumper crop of history books

07-06-12 – One man’s effort to keep the past afloat

07-04-12 – Celebrated dredge soon to be shuttered

06-29-12 – klondike ships werent fit for man or beast

06-22-12 – Tales of an early transportation pioneer

06-15-12 – history hunting on the chilkoot trail

06-08-12 – history hunting on the chilkoot trail

06-01-12 – before there was locomotive there was man

05-25-12 – porcupine had its own gold rush in 1898

05-25-12 – Farewell to a Dawson music icon

05-18-12 – Guarding the line on the Dalton Trail

05-11-12 – Is Dawson City’s history up for sale?

05-04-12 – The early economics of the Yukon a product of isolation

04-27-12 – death of an icon brings an end to an era

04-20-12 – taking the magical history tour on the klondike mines railway

04-13-12 – Klondike experience leads young man to career as inventor

03-30-12 – the tragic death of special constable stick sam

03-23-12 – River transportation was once the lifeblood of the Yukon

03-16-12 – They were the men that didn’t fit in

03-09-12 – Hugh Bostock Yukon’s giant of geology

03-02-12 – tales of windy arm

02-24-12 – black soldiers who built alaska highway defied the odds

02-17-12 – Early photographers captured the essence of Yukon history

02-10-12 – how the yukon made jack london

01-27-12 – Jack McQuesten was known as the ‘Father of the Yukon’

01-20-12 – Winter is the time of Cat trains and snow monsters

01-13-12 – new book on a northern mystery woman

01-06-12 – farewell to one of yukons most cherished history hunters

12-16-11 – permafrost tested miners ingenuity

12-09-11 – This lady lets the bones tell the story

12-02-11 – Library donation opens door to history

11-25-11 – searching for morley bones

11-18-11 – Hunting for Willie the Wolf

10-28-11 – The grand old theatre and the man behind it

10-21-11 – Early feminist had a rough ride in the Klondike

10-14-11 – the history hunter comes out of seclusion

10-07-11 – In prospecting, it’s always about the next big discovery

09-30-11 – gold fever sparked crazy ideas

09-23-11 – there was trouble brewing in the klondike

09-16-11 – Livingstone Creek marked the start of a stellar political career

09-09-11 – an immigrants klondike legacy

09-02-11 – when the monster machines ruled the creeks

08-26-11 – new historic trail leads to discovery

08-19-11 – dawson celebrates a wet discovery day

08-12-11 – Early newspapers are gardens of delight

08-05-11 – rooting out the family tree can reveal fascinating history

07-29-11 – Slaughter at Rink Rapid

07-27-11 – Overgrown Tr’ondek Hwech’in history rooted out

07-22-11 – when the elders speak you should listen

07-15-11 – the remarkable story of a mothers love

07-08-11 – exhibit opening commemorates dots and dashes

06-17-11 – Pioneers of transportation honoured at hall of fame ceremony

06-10-11 – one mans klondike cattle drive trails end

06-03-11 – One Man’s Klondike cattle drive, part 2

05-20-11 – true tale not so true after all

05-13-11 – heritage fair reveals many stories

05-06-11 – new book tells of search for sunken klondike treasure

04-29-11 – was the winter carnival a communist plot

01-21-11 – new book reveals the facts of the early days of dawson

12-22-07 – Christmas a special celebration in the Yukon

12-15-07 – theres a dramatic story behind the kohklux map

12-08-07 – the tradition of high times continues in the north

12-01-07 – the colourful world of early yukon politics

11-24-07 – The pioneer woman of Squaw Creek

11-17-07 – remembrance of the war brings back memories

11-10-07 – bone man unearths the distant past

11-03-07 – Yukon elder celebrates new book and exhibit

10-27-07 – So what happened to their gold?

10-20-07 – death on the chilkoot trail

10-13-07 – History revealed in old tin cans

10-06-07 – Tatshenshini expedition yields more adventure than history

09-29-07 – New book uncovers the story of a colourful pioneer

09-15-07 – william ogilvie helped define modern yukon

09-08-07 – abandoned cabin in the klondike goldfields reveals its story

09-01-07 – Panners battle for gold in the Klondike

08-25-07 – a gold pan discovery

08-18-07 – Rapuzzi collection brings back Skagway’s history

08-11-07 – Robert Service’s secret love life

07-28-07 – Cattle drives to the Yukon

07-21-07 – Memories of Bear Creek wanted

06-16-07 – Jack Dalton and the shooting of Dan McGinniss

05-26-07 – how i became a history hunter