News History
The Dalton Trail
March 20, 1898
Visitors to the Yukon and Alaska are always interested in the history of the areas through which they travel.
Can’t Count His Money
September 2, 1899
Such Is the Sad Condition in Which Alexander McDonald Finds Himself.
An Atlin Road Agen
September 30, 1899
Masked Highwayman Holds Up a Stage in Real Western Style and Gets $3.55
The White Death
February 6, 1901
Of all the natural phenomena peculiar to the Rocky mountain region none is more strange, or terrible than the mysterious storm known to the Indians as "the white death".
Tragedy on the Trail
January 23, 1901
Two gentlemen, who are stopping at the Savoy, and who arrived from the inside last night, bring a story of another reported tragedy on the trail.
The New Gold Strike
January 16, 1901
The first authentic news to be received from the new strike on Livingstone creek in the Big Salmon country is that brought out by Mr. Leonard Matchett who, though not the discoverer, was one of the first locators on the creek.
Bird’s Trial Resulted in Guilty
December 31, 1901
The trial of Homer Bird for murder, at Juneau, has declared his life forfeited.
Work To Be Resumed
January 9, 1901
On The Anaconda, Rabbit Foot and White Horse Group Mines For Which Large Sums Have Been Offered and Refused
A Hazardous Trip
December 12, 1901
The Story OF Capt. Lee, Who Arrived in White Horse Monday Night with the Dawson Mail
A Ghastly Find
May 15, 1901
Early Saturday morning a report was circulated around town that the body of a man had been found on the riverbank beneath the wharf of the W.P.&Y. Route,
Late Dawson News
January 9, 1901
Dawson Jan. 4 - Four thousand Klondikers have been vaccinated under the compulsory order promulgated some time ago and the work continues unabated, though the disease is gone.
Semi-Weekly Star Perpetuated Racial Discrimination
March 22, 1902
In Canada the most complex process of racial intermingling occurred in British Columbia,
Cold Blooded Killers
September 27, 1902
A Dominion Creek Miner -- Dufor was shot by LaBelle and his body thrown into the River -- LaBelle's past career.
A Record Of A Crime Spree
August 23, 1902
Had four hundred dollars in Bank of Quebec notes when arrested -- Police hot on the trail of Fournier’s partner.
Death on the Rail
March 1, 1902
A distressing accident occurred on the W.P. & Y. Route yesterday at 11:55 a.m. abut two miles south of Frazer station.
R.W. SERVICE: Bard of the Yukon
June 20, 1905
Robert W. Service, a young Englishman with a soft Scottish accent, was probably more responsible for making the Yukon known around the world than any other writer.
Whitehorse swept by fire
May 23, 1905
Whitehorse was swept by fire early this morning and is now a mass of blackened smoking ruins. Loss $300,000.
Indoor baseball the rage of 1906
November 24, 1906
The details are sketchy but here's what we know so far...
