The city should invest in a statue of a giant white horse, Coun. Dave Stockdale suggested to city council Tuesday evening.

Following a presentation by the Yukon Quest International Association, which is looking to build a $400,000-plus, 18-metre bronze statue depicting a musher and dog team at the base of Main Street, Stockdale said he felt the city should also have a statue.

Stephen Reynolds, the Yukon Quest International Association's manager, said his organization would like to explore the idea of having a statue commemorating the Quest at the Whitehorse start/finish line in front of the historic White Pass rail station.

Stockdale said he felt the city should discuss a similar idea.

'The city should consider building a giant white horse,' Stockdale told his fellow council members. 'Hopefully, this will come up at budget time.'

Stockdale said he'd like to see his horse idea put on the agenda. A good location may be somewhere in the Yukon River, he added.

According to Large Canadian Roadside Attractions, at www.roadsideattractions.ca, there are a number of Canadian cities with large roadside attractions, including:

• an antique tractor in Austin, Man.;

• a barbecue chicken in Toronto;

• a beehive in Hamilton, Ont.;

• a big pink fish in Victoria;

• a chuck wagon racer in St. Walburg, Sask.;

• a dueling deer in Serpent River, Ont.;

• Ernie, Canada's largest turtle in Turtleford, Sask.;

• a mammoth cheese in Perth, Ont.;

• a pancake chef in Vernon, B.C.;

• the Pants Down Pig in Cambridge Narrows, N.B.;

• Quilly Willy the Porcupine in Porcupine Plain, Sask.;

• Sam, the world's largest Atlantic Salmon in Campbellton, N.B.;

• a slingshot in Hughenden, Alta.;

• a big white horse in St. Francois Xavier, Man.;

• a big uranium atom in Elliot Lake, Ont.;

• the Vulcan Tourist and Trek Station in Vulcan, Alta.;

• a giant wheelchair in Williams Lake, B.C.;

• the World's Largest Potato in Maugerville, N.B.;

• the World's Largest Wooden Nickel in Boiestown, N.B.;

• the World's Tallest Tripod Orchard Ladder in Summerland, B.C.; and

• the World's Largest Blueberry in Oxford, N.S.