Commissioner to host picnic in Dawson City
Members of the public are invited to a Saturday picnic hosted by Commissioner Angélique Bernard to commemorate the 125th anniversary of the discovery of gold in the Yukon.
Members of the public are invited to a Saturday picnic hosted by Commissioner Angélique Bernard to commemorate the 125th anniversary of the discovery of gold in the Yukon.
The event is set for 1-4:30 p.m. at the Commissioner’s Residence in Dawson City.
“This is a free outdoor family-friendly event, and will conform to public health guidelines,” Bernard’s office said Wednesday.
“Picnic boxes will be provided and there will be lawn games. The Story Laureate of the Yukon, Michael Gates, will read a story.”
The picnic will be an opportunity for people to gather outdoors in a safe way.
It replaces the traditional Commissioner’s Tea and Ball, which were cancelled in 2020 and 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Comments (8)
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Mah Bing on Aug 18, 2021 at 12:31 am
" If you've got the money, I've got the time."
I won't be able to attend this year regretfully, could you mail me one of those picnic boxes please?
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Sheepchaser on Aug 16, 2021 at 7:33 am
@bonanzajoe
Funny that you deny racism and colonialism. Did you notice that the comments on the partial hunting ban article had to be shut down? Yeah… enjoy your fragile delusion. It has no foundation in reality.
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Pierre on Aug 15, 2021 at 7:45 pm
@sheepchaser...I suggest if you want to continue to live in the past there is a province just south of us that you are welcome to go live. In every high there is a low just so you know.
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Patti Eyre on Aug 15, 2021 at 5:25 pm
@bjoe: if you don’t know what the Klondike gold rush did to First Nations here in Yukon, give your head a shake man. Read a book. Learn a little about about this country why don’t ya? Might help you, you know, to be informed rather than form options based on senseless. I’ll pray for you!
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Sheepchaser on Aug 14, 2021 at 12:52 pm
Hey Josie,
Thanks, buddy! I missed you. Thanks again for all your comments. I see that you offered no facts or contradictory information of any kind, as usual. Those comments and the thumbs up they receive help to lift the veil on the true heart of the conservative movement in the Yukon. You’re by far the best political operative that the liberals could hope for. Every time you post, another traditionally conservative voter of conscience realizes they can no longer associate themselves with the death throes of a political ideology born out of 18th and 19th century landholder feudalism propped up by the empty promises of mysticism and eternal afterlife fear.
Couldn’t do it without you, bud!
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bonanzajoe on Aug 13, 2021 at 5:22 pm
Sheepchaser: So you trace the exact time for the "beginning for a very dark time for the indigenous population". What did the Klondike gold rush have to do with the indigenous population? For crying out loud, 2 indigenous people started the gold rush and got very rich over it. So please, keep racism out of everything.
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Josey Wales on Aug 13, 2021 at 7:14 am
Hey sheepchaser, there is an election now called you will have heaps to regurgitate till September 20th.
Given your consistent messaging, really think you should ditch the chaser part of your moniker.
Reads to me often your rather enjoy the hum of the sheers and the fleecing you get from your leaders.
Our drama teacher, the other teacher, and the “doc” ...need people like you!
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Sheepchaser on Aug 12, 2021 at 4:11 pm
The funny thing about the Yukon gold rush is that it never produced anywhere near the returns hoped for. The Yukon gold rush was much more so a debt rush. Money was borrowed to fund foolhardy expeditions. The death toll was staggering and what bodies couldn’t afford to get shipped home were swept under the Yukon River. Additionally, this marked the beginning for a very dark time for the indigenous population.
Would be nice to get some facts into the mix now and then, don’t you think so journalists of the Whitehorse Star? If we don’t learn from the mistakes of our past, we are destined to keep repeating them. Massive debt and empty promises in the Yukon. Sounds familiar, eh?