Yukon North Of Ordinary

News archive for November 6, 2009

Festival has its roots in a young woman’s death Subscribers only

November 6, 2009 at 3:55 pm

The Blue Feather Music Festival is nine years old this year, and is steadily gaining acceptance as the fall music festival of the Yukon.

Dawson celebrates 110 years of libraries Subscribers only

November 6, 2009 at 3:53 pm

DAWSON CITY – As the territory’s libraries celebrated 50 years of library services last week, the Dawson Community Library savoured a heritage that goes back quite a bit further than that.

Two tales of the First World War Subscribers only

November 6, 2009 at 3:50 pm

“What would happen, I wonder, if the armies suddenly and simultaneously went on strike and said some other method must be found of settling the dispute.” – Winston Churchill, letter to his wife, Nov. 23, 1914.

Grizzly bears: just how big is big? Subscribers only

November 6, 2009 at 3:49 pm

There is a scientific difference of opinions on what is a brown bear and what is a grizzly.