Surrounded by beautiful wilderness, the Yukon’s capital is a small city with a big backyard. Whitehorse is also home to the Whitehorse Glacier Bears swimming club.[49]. The Frantic Follies Vaudeville Revue was a major tourist draw established in 1970, until it closed in 2017, citing falling tourist numbers. 2685 Yukon Regiment Army Cadet Corps and 551 Whitehorse Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Cadets of the Canadian Cadet Organizations also operate in Whitehorse. McColl, K. (2016). At this latitude winter days are short and summer days have just over 19 hours of daylight.
[48], Although there are no territorial junior league teams, the business community sponsors a number of local teams of volleyball, baseball, basketball, broomball, ice hockey, soccer and ultimate disk. [78] Personnel are drawn primarily from the territories, but many come from across Canada. The Yukon River in and around Whitehorse provides many opportunities for kayaking and canoeing. Even though traders and prospectors were all calling the city Whitehorse (White Horse), there was an attempt by the railway people to change the name to Closeleigh (British Close brothers provided funding for the railway), this was refused by William Ogilvie, the territory's Commissioner. Today Whitehorse General hospital counts 49 in-patient beds, 10 day-surgery beds, an ER department, OR suites and several medical imaging technologies. The facility houses Regional Cadet Support Unit (North), Whitehorse Cadet Summer Training Centre, service support elements of Joint Task Force (North), and is used by 1 Canadian Ranger Patrol Group, the Junior Canadian Rangers, and other units to conduct training. Geologic Formations, Nature & Wildlife Areas. Waste is disposed mostly in areas requiring reclamation. Adventurers climb into float planes on Schwatka Lake and fly off to wild, secluded places. In January 1981, the show joined the "Snow Birds" for a season and moved to St. Petersburg, Florida, for a four-month run.

Less than an hour—in various directions—are the refreshing hot springs, the Yukon Wildlife Preserve, the much-photographed Emerald Lake, and numerous wilderness tour operators eager to share their Yukon with you. Most residents of the far-north territory of Yukon live here in Whitehorse, its capital city. Other local newspapers include What's Up Yukon (a local free music, arts, culture, events, weekly founded in 2005) and a French-language newspaper L'Aurore boréale (founded in 1983). [72] The last general election was held in 2016. The airport was developed as part of the Northwest Staging Route in 1941–42 and has two long paved runways. High school teams are very active and partake in competitions with schools in neighbouring Alaska, and a few local athletes have flourished on the Canadian sports scene. [citation needed]. The Fire Department currently operates with thirty-three full-time staff and approximately ten volunteers. West of downtown are Valleyview, Hillcrest (also largely constituted of old military lodgings) and the Erik Nielsen Whitehorse International Airport; and beyond the Canada Games Centre along Hamilton Boulevard are the neighbourhoods of McIntyre (designated to replace inferior lands and homes of the Kwanlin Dun First Nation ("The Village") previously located where Marwell adjoins a marshy area), then Ingram, Arkell, Logan, Granger, and rapidly expanding Copper Ridge.

Sima Service Industrial Subdivision. By 1975, its popularity had grown to such an extent that it became necessary to present two performances per night. In 1959 the hospital was rebuilt on the other bank of the Yukon River, across from its previous location, but decision making was still based in Ottawa (National Health and Welfare, Medical Services Branch). [81][82] Until 2009, there was a low-powered repeater of Edmonton's CITV-TV providing Global Television Network programming to the area. Border restrictions apply, please visit yukon.ca for more details.

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