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May 7, 2015

hen I was learning to drive, one required skill haunted my dreams.

Leading up to my driver’s test in the summer of 1998 I would go down to the Qwanlin “Mall” parking lot, after hours, and set up pylons. Then I’d practice parallel parking in my family’s 1987 Tercel 4wd wagon.

It was boring and frustrating, and despite all my practice I never got good at it.

The first time I took the test the clipboard-jockey found a quiet downtown street for my car and me and asked to see my parking technique.

With phony bravado I pulled up beside the car that was in front of the open spot, shifted into reverse, turned the wheel hard to the right and inched backwards.

Then I cranked the wheel hard the other way and ended up perfectly situated between the two bracketing cars.

Voila.

I was feeling pretty good about my self until the tester opened

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The Purple Panther, safely stowed on Hawkins Street the door. The car was two feet from the lip. He didn’t say anything; he just made notes on his clipboard.

Perhaps he wrote down the famous line from Annie Hall: “Don’t worry. We can walk to the curb from here”.

In the end I automatically failed that first test because I exceeded the speed limit. I passed the test the second time I took it, but during the parallel parking section I stalled the chariot twice.

Suffice to say I avoided this docking method for years.

But over the last half-dozen years my opinion on the matter has evolved.

I don’t actively seek out chances to practice the craft, but when I’m looking for a parking spot and I see a snug little opening on the side of the street, a humble surge of adrenaline courses through me.

Here is what I think now: a

good parallel parking job is one of the most satisfying and aesthetically pleasing experiences a driver can have.

It combines the spatial dexterity of Tetris with the thrill of correctly placing a puzzle piece.

At his best, the parallel parker achieves a magical state where the distinction between man and machine melts away — leaving a single entity pursuing a single goal with grace and precision.

Still, I have not perfected the art. Occasionally I still find myself too far away from the curb — but not absurdly so. And I take comfort in knowing that this is Whitehorse and there is probably someone parked much worse than me in close proximity.

But when I do absolutely nail a parking job I exit my car with a little extra spring in my step, as if to say, “How do you like me know, clipboard guy?”

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How To Love The Yukon Without Ditching Your First Love Confessions of a polygamist

by RP Singh

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ukoners know the following conversational elements all too well: “So, what brought you to the Yukon?”

“Oh, I came up here for work/to visit friends/as a tourist a few years ago and never ended up leaving.”

The frequent follow up question is, “What do you love about the Yukon so much?”

Sometimes it’s worded differently: “What? You’re staying in the Yukon? Are you nuts?”

Usually the unlucky, which have never been here, use the latter phrase.

My Yukon story is familiar. It took me three visits, but faithful to the cliché, the third time was the charm and my last “visit” to the Yukon ended up keeping me here about nine months. Then four months after leaving, I came back.

Again. Like so many others, the Yukon has staked its claim in my heart and I love it here.

But. What happens when there is a prior claim?

I had the privilege of studying on the small Caribbean island of Barbados — where Rihanna hails from — many years ago, and it

Yet, there are ways.

Singing in choirs is something I have continued to enjoy both in Canada and Barbados.

Here in the Yukon, choirs seem to operate in parallel to the school year.

They take the summers off so that people can enjoy the outdoors and the (sometimes) warm weather. In Barbados, with the exception of hurricane season, the weather’s pretty easy to deal with, we might even refer to it here as “year-round summer”, except it’s warm. So there’s no break, not even for hurricane season, those brave Barbadians.

So when choir is done for the season here in the Yukon, down I go to Barbados to keep singing there. And then I come back here when choir resumes in the fall.

When I explain this in person, the reacPHOTO: courtesy of RP Singh tion is often, “Um, you spend winter in the Yukon and summer in the Caribbean?

In Barbados choir is a year-round activity Don’t you have that backwards?”

To me it all comes back to what you love, and how the place you love stakes its claim on your heart.

I don’t think I have it backter living there almost 4 years, I mous voice talent, constantly in returned to Canada but not intact. demand for lucrative voice-over wards at all.

Barbados had a piece of my heart work, bouncing back and forth beRP Singh is the Right Guy tween the Yukon and Barbados is and soul. at What’s Up Yukon.

Now I am in the predicament of a daunting prospect, financially. also worked its magic on me and captured my heart.

Barbados was where I got my degree, first joined a choir, and first got into broadcast media. Af-

needing to be in both the Yukon and Barbados as much as possible, after all, one needs to maintain the claims one has staked.

Until I become a world fa-

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May 7, 2015

’m almost at the Tagish Bridge when 106.7 CFET kicks in and the truck is flooded with Estonian pop music. I’m on my way to interview the fellow that makes this happen.

I spent some time growing up in Tagish, and it’s there that “Radio Rob” Hopkins continues to be a close neighbour to my family and a friend to me. He is also the person responsible for the first commercial radio station in the Yukon.

It’s been going strong since Labour Day, 1997.

But it all started back in 1992, when Rob needed to send a fax to Thailand.

He had to drive all the way into Whitehorse just to send said fax to a fax machine on the other side of the world that may not even have been turned on — and therefore would not receive it. Not one to be held down by earthly limitations, Rob started TagishTel — linking Tagish to Whitehorse with mountain top repeaters — that same year. Finally, he could send faxes from home.

I remember the summer that Rob put a 70-foot communication tower up in his yard, which he found in the dump.

Rob first came to the Yukon as a professional hobo/scavenger/ train hopper; he came north to poach a ride on the White Pass & Yukon Route. The day he arrived was the day that the White Pass shut down.

One of my favourite things in Tagish was Rob’s “cabinet of curiosities”. It was a vintage glass and stainless steel sterilized surgical instrument case from the old Whitehorse Hospital. It’s contents fed my imagination like nothing has since. A few of the objects I can remember offhand were a shrunken head, Burmese leaf money, a Nepalese skull cap, a wooden chain, trade beads, and petrified dinosaur poop — a personal fave of mine, obviously.

While Rob and I talk about all these awesome things he tells me that once he visited Ripley’s Believe It or Not Museum in Niagra Falls, Ontario and saw all of these rare items on its shelves. Super cool.

I asked him where his full-sized

pines scoping out silk scarves and such to sell at the store he had in the old No Pop Shoppe (Antoinette’s current location).

He exported such delicacies as maple syrup and smoked salmon back to Asia. This subsidized his travel adventures and bike trips from 1989 to 1993.

Since then, Rob has done communications for PolarCom, set up cellular networks in the Yukon and the NWT for Ice Wireless, and has been broadcasting Rock 101 CFMI from Vancouver in Tagish for 12 hours a day.

The things that I’ve come to love in PHOTO: Lesli Barnes my adult life — burlesque, body art, doing what I want, and classic rock, to name a few, are direct influences of Tagish’s own “Radio Rob”.

Thank you, Robert.

mammoth ivory tusk is now; he tells me that it’s in storage with his collection of old Yukon restaurant menus.

Before Rob got into the world

Mini-Fibi and Radio Rob in Tagish, circa 1988

of communications, he had an import-export business and spent six months of every year overseas in Thailand, China, and the Philip-

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My Survival Cabin

I made a cabin of logs which I hauled with my dogs.

My log cabin is warm so the cold can’t do harm.

I have a woodstove for fire an’ I have rabbit snare.

Times will be tough But I have survival stuff.

I have my gun an’ knife that will save my life.

I have my snowshoes an’ I have two canoes.

I can light my candle I have an axe with handle.

I have a bow and arrow an’ I can use my wheelbarrow.

I will use my pedal bike or I can go for a hike.

I have all kinds of books nets and fish hooks.

When hard times arrive Didoo told me how to survive.

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A Klondike Korner with Dan Davidson

World Heritage Planning Gets a Big Boost

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Tax return choices-spend or invest?

Many Canadians look forward to an annual tax refund from the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA). It’s a mini-windfall-and it’s tempting to spend the money on something frivolous.

But there are other uses for your refund. When you use the money you receive wisely, it can pay big dividends over time. Here are a few suggestions for making the most of your refund.

Invest in an RRSP. Use your tax refund to get an early start on your annual Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) contribution. The sooner you get money into your RRSP, the sooner you take advantage of tax-deferred growth.

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Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in culture, being celebrated in this picture from the July 2014 Moosehide Gathering, is an integral part of the current Tr’ondëk/Klondike push for World Heritage Status

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he Yukon Government (YG) finally decided to sign on in a substantive way to the push for UNESCO World Heritage Status for the site designated Tr’ondëk/ Klondike.

The press release hasn’t been issued yet as I write these words, but I know, because I was one of the people who posed for the group photo with Premier Pasloski and two cabinet ministers during the Spring Conference of the Tourism Industry Association of the Yukon. The press release will be out there by the time this column gets into print.

At the conference, Minister Elaine Taylor announced a $382,000 commitment to this process over the next three years.

This application for World Heritage Status is intended to highlight the Gold Rush and the First Nations history of the area.

Taylor said at the conference that this is one of the important developments in the territory right now.

She said the government is pleased to work towards the designation under the name Tr’ondëk/ Klondike. YG is also working with

the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in and an advisory committee made up of members local organizations, including the Dawson City Chamber of Commerce, the Klondike Placer Miners Association, the Klondike Visitors Association, the City of Dawson, as well as concerned citizens and representatives from several YG departments.

Full disclosure: I represent the Chamber of Commerce on this advisory committee, but my involvement as a journalist goes back to about 1996, when the late Pierre Berton contacted me to break the story of his original proposal.

Berton was primarily concerned with commemoration of the Gold Rush, but the proposal has been expanded to cover the ways in which different cultures have interacted and blended since then. This necessarily brings in both the pre- and post-Gold Rush history of the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in, who have now taken the lead in promoting the project.

The First Nation employed Paula Hassard, formerly with Parks Canada before the 2012 budget cuts, as project manager.

She and the committee, as well

as a number of consultants, have done work that convinced the initially reluctant YG to sign on.

“I want to congratulate the advisory committee and the really incredible work under way by the advisory committee and stakeholders, as they continue those very important discussions here,” said Taylor.

There is still concern in some quarters that World Heritage status would bring in all sorts of new rules and regulations regarding construction, mining, building, and land use. UNESCO has no such powers. Mining regulations already in place would not be altered, and the core area of Dawson is already a National Historic Site with municipal regulations that have been in place for over 30 years.

After 32 years teaching in rural Yukon schools, Dan Davidson retired from that profession but continues writing about life in Dawson City. Please send comments about his stories to dawson@whatsupyukon.com.

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Make up for missed RRSP contributions. You’re allowed to make up for missed contributions going back to 1991. Using your refund will increase your pool of tax-sheltered assets, potentially boost retirement wealth and create a larger tax deduction this year or in future years.

Pay down or eliminate high-interest debt. Use your refund to pay down credit card balances, personal loans or other expensive debt. You’ll reduce interest costs.

Pay down your RRSP loan. If you borrowed money to make an RRSP contribution, pay down the loan as soon as your refund arrives.

Pay down the mortgage. Every dollar you put toward your mortgage principal is a dollar on which you won’t pay interest for the next 5, 10 or even 25 years.

Contribute to an RESP. Put money into a Registered Education Savings Plan (RESP) for your children or grandchildren. An RESP is an excellent tax-deferred vehicle to save for post-secondary education.

Spend a bit on yourself. It won’t hurt to spend a little of your refund on yourself. After all, you have to have some fun in your financial life. But try to limit it to 10% to 20%.

Now here’s the bad news. You don’t really want a refund. That money you get back from the CRA every year is like an interest-free loan to the government. By paying more in taxes throughout the year than you should, you’ve let Ottawa use your money. Plus, you lose out on potential investment returns until your overpaid taxes are returned.

If you regularly receive a refund, consider having the income tax deducted from your regular pay cheque reduced. Obtain a copy of Canada Revenue Agency Form T1213 (Request to Reduce Tax Deductions at Source) at your local tax office or on the CRA’s Internet site. Submit the form to the CRA, which will send you a letter of authority allowing your employer to reduce deductions during the year.

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Navigating the North

The Western Canadian Orienteering Championships are coming to the Yukon in July

by Forest Pearson

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he 37th annual Western Canadian Orienteering Championships will be held in Whitehorse and surrounding areas from July 3 to 5 of this year.

This event comes to Whitehorse once every four years, and represents the best orienteering of the year. The events are typically held on exciting, brand new maps — so it is a fresh challenge for everyone.

There are three different events: Sprint, long, and middle distance races.

The sprint race will be held in the Takhini neighbourhood of Whitehorse: a mix of residential, school grounds, and forest terrain.

The long distance race will be held at the Gunnar Nilsson & Mickey Lammers Research Forest, 20 kilometres northwest of the city centre. This is a great new

area for the long distance race, because it includes a variety of vegetation types and landform complexities.

The middle distance race will be held at the Long Lake north area, one of the most awesome, technically challenging orienteering areas in Canada.

So what is different about these events compared to a regular Wednesday evening meet?

PHOTO: Forest Pearson

The Yukon boasts some of the best orienteering terrain in the country Simply put, it is the very best orienteering event you are going to get for a long time. Areas with brand new orienteering maps, high quality courses that will challenge you, pre-printed maps, and well-organized, fun orienteering.

For local orienteers, there is a choice of competitive or recreational categories. You can choose a recreational category just like regular orienteering events, or if you want an extra challenge, choose a competitive category and test your navigating skills against other orienteers of your age and ability.

Orienteers are coming from BC and Alberta to try the challenge of orienteering in the Yukon. There will also be international visitors including some from Sweden — the birthplace of the sport.

As part of these events the challenge is increased because you don’t get to see the map until you start. Everyone gets an assigned start time. When the clock counts down to your start time,

you turn over your map and…surprise! You see the map and your course for the first time.

You will also get to see some of Canada’s top orienteers compete.

For the elite racers, all three events are Canada Cup races. The sprint event on Friday evening will be a particularly good opportunity to see the fast orienteers racing through the neighborhood. The middle distance event is even sanctioned as the world-ranking event for the elite categories. So the elite runners will be vying for improvement in their international standing.

There is still time to sign up for any or all of the events. Go to the Yukon Orienteering Association website at http://www.yukonorienteering.ca for more information and links to the registration page.

Forest Pearson is a member of the Yukon Orienteering Association. Contact him via editor@whatsupyukon.com.

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PM Jarvis Street Saloon Thu, May 14 Roxx Hunter Live 6:00 PM Tony’s Pizza until Sat, May 23 Museum of Broken Thu, May 14 Joe Loutchen & Friends 7:00 relationships & Ahlers Art Show Yukon PM 98 Hotel Longest running house band Arts Centre in the Yukon - Traditional fiddle music and until Tue, Jun 30 The Puckett Family more - jigging is encouraged and limericks 10:00 AM Arts Underground In the Hougen are the norm.

Heritage Gallery. Life in Whitehorse c.1900Thu, May 14 Ginger Jam 9:00 PM Yukon 1930.

Inn fully electric jam with a PA system, drum until Sat, May 30 Art Show “Fire Wind kit and guitars provided, and encourages the Water Earth Art” Arts Underground inside wearing of silly hats the focus and edge gallery until Sun, May 31 Colour Theory by Amber Thu, May 14 Yukon Jack Live! 10:00 PM Jarvis Street Saloon Church 11:00 AM Yukon Artists at Work Gallery 867 393 4848 a show of mixed media Fri, May 15 Yukon Musician: Anne Turner 6:00 PM Westmark Whitehorse Jazz and work by artist Amber Church Easy Listening Fri, May 8 - Sun, May 31 Art Show: Where Fri, May 15 Karaoke 9:00 PM Yukon Inn in the Wild Things are North End Gallery the Boiler Room Three great northern women with a strong Sat, May 16 Sat’day Celebration “Nicholas connection to northern wildlife... Featuring Mah” 6:00 PM Antoinette’s Restaurant work by Maureen Morris, Sandra Grace Sat, May 16 Karaoke 9:00 PM Yukon Inn in Storey and Jennifer Walden. Exploring the Boiler Room texture, form and materials in a tactile and Sat, May 16 Yukon Jack Live! 10:00 PM playful way Jarvis Street Saloon

Dün Whitehorse Waterfront Heritage Project 4:00 PM Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre 633-7802 (Geoff Cowie) It’s time for Kwanlin Dün to tell our own story. Let’s share our voices, photos, artifacts and recordings, on our own terms.

Wed, May 13 FREE Activity Night 5:30 PM Whitehorse Elementary Bring your child and have fun with many different activities happening every week!

Thu, May 14 Darren Frost The Darkness Within 8:00 PM The Guild Hall Come watch this hilarious comedian do his stuff!

Fri, May 15 Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Community Luncheon 11:45 AM Health and Social Building Join us for lunch every Friday, from 11:45 am until 1 pm, at the Health and Social Building.

Fri, May 15 Darren Frost The Darkness Within 8:00 PM The Guild Hall Come watch this hilarious comedian do his stuff!

Sat, May 16 Dog Wash Fundraiser 10:00 AM The Feed Store Pet Junction All profit goes to Mae Bachur Animal Shelter Sat, May 16 Darren Frost The Darkness Within 8:00 PM The Guild Hall Come watch this hilarious comedian do his stuff!

Sat, May 16 Ladies Breakfast 8:30 AM Andrea’s Hotel 8675362174 for more info, call Cynthia at 536 - 7239 Sat, May 16 Yukon Amateur Radio Association: Coffee Discussion Group 9:30 AM Emergency Measures Organization YARA’s breakfast at the A&W. Casual event.

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Tue, May 12 YuKonstruct Weekly Open House 7:00 PM YuKonstruct Makerspace Tour YuKonstruct, see some projects in action, and meet some fellow makers Wed, May 13 Yukon Art Society Annual General Meeting 5:30 PM Arts Underground Wed, May 13 Introductory Tracking 7:15 PM City Of Whitehorse 633-4952 Learn how to train your dog to track. Will be held around Whitehorse.

Thu, May 14 Whole Self Health 5:30 PM Canada Games Centre 668-8360 In this lifechanging new program, you will address all areas of your well being including physical, mental and emotional wellness.

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Sun, May 17 Ceramics Open Studio 2:30 PM Arts Underground Non-instructed open studio. Participants are welcome to use the studio’s tools and equipment; clay and some tools are available for purchase. Every Sunday except long weekends.

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Registration is by donation and starts at 11AM. Run/walk starts 1PM. Sun, May 10 Family Games Drop-In 3:00 PM Heart Of Riverdale Mon, May 11 After school Art Exploration 3:15 PM Heart Of Riverdale Mon, May 11 GO The Surrounding Game 6:00 PM Starbucks Chilkoot Centre Simple Game Deep Strategy. Beginners & Visitors Welcome. For more information email: tjbowlby@gmail.com Tue, May 12 Mother Goose 10:30 AM Heart Of Riverdale Tue, May 12 After school Sing Together 3:15 PM Heart Of Riverdale Tue, May 12 Book Club 7:30 PM Heart Of Riverdale Wed, May 13 Family Drop-In 10:00 AM Heart Of Riverdale Wed, May 13 Boys and Girls Club Youth Drop In 3:00 PM Boys and Girls Club (867) Wed, May 6 Jazz on Wednesdays 6:00 PM 393-2824 Dinner provided by the Boys and Fri, Mar 6 The Puckett Family 10:00 AM Wheelhouse Restaurant 456-2982 Nicole Girls Club.

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Dawson’s Community Dance

The tradition of the community dance has come back to Dawson City

by Gabriela Sgaga

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iss Clark, a local artist and music teacher, is the organizer of the Community Jigging Square Dance Project in Dawson City. She decided to start the project after hearing an elder in Fort MacPherson recount dance history in the North.

“Dances used to be for meeting, talking, and socializing with the community,” says Clark.

“There’s a history of that here.”

During the 1800s, Hudson’s Bay Company traders, coming from Scotland, Ireland, and Frenchspeaking Canada brought music with them to the North. The First Nations integrated the music and dance culture into their own, creating a tradition of jigs and square dancing to old-time fiddle music.

Clark got start-up funding from the American Country Dance and Song Society to organize monthly dances, partnered up with the Tr’ondek Hwech’in First Nation in Dawson and invited the local fiddlers group and jigging group to join in. The next community dance will be held on May 9.

Running the local fiddlers group is Peter Menzies, Robert Service High School’s tech-ed and music teacher. He is also president of the North Klondike Highway Music Society. Because he believes strongly in music education and the value of music in a community, he had the idea 10 years ago to encourage the tradition of fiddling in Dawson.

The current club has seven youth and three tutors, with three volunteer musicians to help out during performances.

Menzies sees the community dance as a forum to perform and a

way to engage with others.

“Dances stopped with TV, records, and when there were other things to do,” says the fiddle, guitar, and banjo player.

“You can’t replace the modern distractions, but I’d like to see the tradition of fiddling being made a part of life, to see it grow where it belongs.”

Menzies points out that learning the songs a certain way is in itself a tradition. Dancers are particular in how they want to hear the tunes, and fiddlers need to learn them that way. “[The whole thing] gives meaning to me because it’s honouring a tradition,” he says.

As the saying goes, where there’s fiddling, there should be dancing.

Victor’s Jigging Club started when, five years ago, local First Nations’ Elder Victor Henry wanted people to remember and learn local traditional dances. In response,

“Dances used to be for meeting, talking, and socializing with the community” Tr’ondek Hwech’in partnered with the Recreation Department of Dawson City to start an after-school jigging club. They named it in his honour.

Ashley Bower-Bramadat, community education liaison coordinator for the Tr’ondek Hwech’in Department of Education, has been involved with the club for three years.

“The Tr’ondek Hwech’in do singing and drumming, but didn’t do much jigging until the club started,” says Bower-Bramadat, who also participates in the dancing.

“Some knew the dances but never practiced, but all the kids know the dances are their community culture.”

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tices once a week, with the older kids teaching the younger ones the moves and the background of jigging. At present count, there are eighteen children involved, half of whom are First Nations.

The group performs at events such as Tr’ondek Hwech’in feasts, first hunts, the Moosehide gathering, school functions, and Christmas concerts. Some of the traditional dances they perform at these events are the circle dance, the red river jig, and the handkerchief dance. They are also practicing a new dance this year, but only after they got the nod from Victor.

“We don’t do anything unless he’s okay-ed it first,” says BowerBramadat with a smile.

While all three feel that the community dances held so far have been successful, Clark, Menzies, and Bower-Bramadat are particularly excited about the upcoming dance on May 9.

Three traditional fiddlers have agreed to stop in to Dawson to play at the dance before heading up to Old Crow to perform. Ed Peekeekoot, Gerald Edzerza, and Keitha Clark are all skilled and seasoned performers and will be celebrating and sharing their music and the tradition of the community dance.

As for long-term plans, Victor’s Jigging Club’s next goal is to travel to other communities so that dancers can learn different traditional dances from each other and exchange moves. They are already planning a trip to Pelly Crossing.

Menzies hopes to encourage other fiddling communities to come to the Moosehide Gathering in 2016 and have a large dance and traditional celebration involving everyone.

He also hopes that one day, “youth will think of the community dance as a cool thing.”

As for Clark, who brought them all together, her dream is to continue to hold a monthly dance that helps build community and shares intergenerational experiences, knowledge, and skills through live music and dance.

The dance is being held at the Tr’ondek Hwech’in Community Hall, starting at 6:30 p.m. on May 9. Admission is by donation.

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The Relocation of Niggy Bee

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Vanier students from Grade 8 to Grade 12 rehearse for the spring musical

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azz has come a long way over the decades. What started as a call-and-response song though the cotton fields of the south, has now become an uptempo beat familiar to most.

In edition to its evolution, jazz has sparked the creation of many sub-genres: Latin jazz, classical jazz, funk, b-bob, acid jazz, and vocal jazz, for example.

While jazz may not be a popular mainstream genre today, its musical roots have set the foundation for many popular artists.

Rock n’ roll, R&B, and hip-hop have all been seminally influenced by jazz. Further, one of the unique aspects of jazz is the combination of lyrics and sound. Without lyrics, jazz can convey many emotions. With lyrics, the emotions become more profound.

This spring, Vanier Catholic Secondary School will be explor-

ing the vibrant world of jazz in a musical called Pick Up the Jazz, showing May 7 and 8 in the school’s small gym. This musical is particularly special, because it almost never happened.

“Originally we were not going to do a musical,” says Kim Hart, musical director at Vanier.

However, in the winter Hart reconsidered and thought it might not be a bad idea.

“January 4 is when I decided we were going to do the musical,” she laughs. “I thought it would be awesome for the students to learn through a performance.”

The premise of the musical centres around a group of students who are working on a jazz project.

“They sort of go through time and explore jazz during different decades. Essentially the students are playing themselves as they ex-

plore the music,” Hart says.

Types of jazz covered will include songs by Miles Davis, and the genres of blues, swing, spiritual, b-bob, and funk. The songs will be performed by a group of students, and the school orchestra will be delivering the music. Some portions will involve audience interaction.

It’s a very unique approach to a musical; it’s not often that musicals entertain and inform. With rehearsals underway, students are working hard.

The show takes place Thursday, May 7 and Friday, May 8 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for students and are available at the door.

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here was fog hugging the ground at La Guardia Airport. Flights had been cancelled all day. My companions and I sat in Ottawa, checking the board and watching our flight get delayed. We sipped Pinot Grigio.

We ate nachos. Finally, finally, we boarded our plane.

Two of us were supposed to be in New York promoting Yukon food at a dinner that had already started. Adam Gerle of Northern Vision Development, which owns the Downtown Hotel in Dawson, home of the Sourtoe Cocktail, was travelling with the toe, in order to surprise and amaze 48 hardened American travel and food writers with a Sourtoe Cocktail, made with the spirit of their choice.

Jasmine Sangria of Yukon Brewing was keeping him company.

I had with me spruce tips, juniper berries, and Labrador tea for a show-and-tell of Yukon herbs, many of which were featured in the dinner we weren’t at, prepared by Chef Will Harris at the National Restaurant in the Benjamin Hotel. Months of planning had gone into this dinner, presented for selected journalists attending the annual Canada Media Marketplace conference put on by the Canadian Tourism Commission.

We entered the air over La Guardia. The pilot announced that the fog had descended once more. We circled. I attempted the EnRoute Magazine crossword puzzle.

After 40 minutes, the pilot said, “Well folks, we don’t have the fuel to keep circling. We’re going back.”

Farewell, Yukon dinner. Enjoy the pineapple weed crème brulée with rhubarb compote and goat’s milk yogurt sorbet, you hardened American journalists.

And back we went, to Ottawa, to an empty airport and a lone Air Canada employee who gave us a number to call to reschedule our flights, and hotel vouchers for the Delta in downtown Ottawa, a nice hotel with a great bar, where we repaired for a soothing Pinot Grigio, and called it a day.

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One hardened American journalist, waiting in line for his Sourtoe cocktail, told me, “Based on what I ate last night I would come to the Yukon for the food alone.”

Music to my ears.

And then, official duties concluded, we scooted across town to Death & Co., the fabled New York bar I’ve wanted to visit ever since I bought their cocktail cookbook last fall. As expected, the doorman, clad entirely in black, told us there was no room and sent us down the street to their sister bar, taking our cell number.

He’d call when we had a table.

The sister bar was a tiny, funky, tiled hallway lit with fairy lights.

The suspendered, white-shirted bartender set us up with water. I ordered a Sazerac, a house variation of the classic New Orleans cocktail, made with a blend of several Amaro bitters. It was bitter, sweet, mysterious, and powerful. We relaxed, soaking up the atmosphere, waiting for our call — which did not come.

We were just getting miffed when a bartender from Death & Co appeared, discretely spoke our names and escorted us down the street and into the legendary dim, wood-lined space, lit by chandeliers and candles. The abashed doorman had called us several times — but it was the wrong number. Never mind, full marks for perseverance.

We knew every cocktail on the pages-long menu would be superb, and we were right. Adam’s classic martini, made with a gin we’d never heard of, was subtle, herbal, and bracing. My Fistful of Dollars was a strange and delicate balance of Old Grand-Dad Bourbon, lemon Cointreau, Davis Mix #2, Campari, and Bitter Truth aromatic bitters.

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Back in Whitehorse I visited the Woodcutter’s Blanket and requested a Sazerac from bartender James Maltby.

He said, “I’d like to make you a Sazerac, but I want to get really good at it first. Can I offer you a Pisco Sour instead?”

That is the mark of a truly excellent bartender.

The Pisco Sour was superb.

But I still wanted a Sazerac, so I made myself one at home. Here it is. Not Death & Co calibre, not Woodcutter’s Blanket quality, but aspirational.

Aspirational Sazerac Jean Boyer Absinthe 1 ½ oz. Last Mountain Distillery rye ½ oz. St. Remy VSOP brandy 1 tsp. Uncle Berwyn’s Yukon Birch Syrup 4 dashes Peychaud’s bitters 1 lemon twist Rinse a rock glass with Absinthe and dump. Stir remaining ingredients over ice, strain into the glass, add lemon twist and serve.

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ark Twain once said, “If I cannot drink bourbon and smoke cigars in heaven, I shall not go.”

Ah yes, there is something about that pairing that sends connoisseurs into a dream world. Today I will explore this world.

Rather than go for traditional Kentucky bourbon, I’m going to go a different route, with Jim Beam’s Devil’s Cut bourbon. I will be pairing it with a cigar called Perdomo Champagne Reserve.

As you can guess, judging by the names, there is quite the contrast of flavors — which is what I’m going for. The light, creamy, “angelic” Perdomo is paired with a hellish bourbon that has traces of hot cinnamon.

Before starting the cigar I have a sampler glass of the bourbon to become more acquainted with the taste. The first thing I notice is how smooth it is. I suspect this is due to Devil’s Cut’s six-year aging process.

The smoothness is followed by a spicy cedar and a tart cinnamon candy taste. It’s not overpowering, but definitely adds a bold character.

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Perdomo is a household name in the world of cigars. Based out of Nicaragua, Perdomo makes many varieties. To celebrate their 10th anniversary, the company created a cigar called Champagne Reserve. I have chosen the 6 x 60 size — thick and long.

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Universal forces collide in this pairing Pairing this portion of the Perdomo cigar with the Devil’s Cut is quite the nefarious flavor experience. For the masters, you will enjoy this trip into Dante’s ninth circle of hell, but will be able to return to the light. For those who are not familiar with bold spice flavors, this pairing may leave you speaking in tongues.

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Women’s Issue

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For a pair of Haines Junction foodies, the catering business has been ... well, busy.

 14 Acre bounty Courtney Quinn, left, and Kari Johnston

by Ken Bolton

W

hen Kari Johnston worked as a camp cook, she learned to observe people silently as they tucked into their grub.

“It’s easy to watch what people are eating when everything’s free, and you can just make a whole bunch of food and watch what they want to eat.”

It’s a lesson she and Courtney Quinn heed when they’re planning menus for the 14 Acre Farm, the catering company they operate in

Haines Junction.

“We try to make our catering accessible to everybody, so there’s going to be something on our menu for everyone that’s recognizable and familiar and comforting,” Johnston explains.

“Then we like to throw in exciting things, like vegetables that people haven’t seen before, or ways of preparing food that they maybe haven’t seen before. So there’s kind of a blend between those two things.”

In 2012, Johnston and her husband, Collin Kallio, were working in a mining camp just north of Dawson City, hoping to find a piece of land where they could live and grow food.

When their online search turned up a 14-acre parcel adjacent to the former research farm in Haines Junction, they bought it sight unseen. A couple of months later, they moved there and began clearing the land.

At nearly the same time, Quinn was about to relocate from Whitehorse to the Junction, where her partner had built a house.

“My husband kept talking about this person that I really needed to meet, because we were basically the same person. Then Kari and I met and we got along famously,” Quinn says.

“We look really similar, Courtney and I. We both have similar features and height and hair, so we’re sort of known as the twins,” Johnston adds.

The pair had so much in common that by the second time they hung out together, the idea of starting a food-related business together had already emerged.

When Johnston was approached about setting up a small vendor’s stall at the Haines Junction farmer’s market in 2013, her new friend “kind of got hauled into it as well,” she says.

“We started doing that at the farmers’ market, and then we were asked to cater a wedding.”

The wedding was in a “stunning location about 45 minutes in the middle of absolutely nowhere,” Johnston says.

“And we just felt brave enough to take it on together, so we catered a wedding for 110 people with no power in the middle of nowhere.”

Since that daring debut, The 14 Acre Farm has catered numerous events of various sizes.

This week, they will share catering duties at the annual general meeting of the Association of Yukon Communities (AYC) with the new owners of the Village Bakery.

“We’ve been really excited to meet them and hear their ideas and what they’re planning on bringing to the community,” Quinn says.

Besides their shared love of food and a common background of having parents who owned small businesses, the two caterers both played several sports in school, Johnston in Toronto and Quinn in Smithers, B.C. Not surprisingly, Johnston falls

back on a sports metaphor when asked to comment on the pressure of catering for a large and prestigious group such as the AYC. “It’s always about Game Day. That’s what every catering event is like for us: that exciting Game Day sort of adrenaline push.”

Last November, the business took a big step forward with the purchase of a 30-foot catering trailer at an auction in Edmonton.

“It’s fully customized for what we do and it’s a full commercial kitchen, so that’s where we’re operating out of now,” Quinn says.

“We have community members stopping by all the time to say hello and check it out.”

The trailer’s location is particularly handy on the two days each week when the 14 Acre Farm sells bakery products at the Little Green Apple grocery store right next door.

In its relatively short life, the business has grown to the point that both partners can foresee giving up their part-time jobs in the not-too-distant future.

“We ended up having a very busy first quarter, which we weren’t really anticipating compared to our business last year,” Quinn says.

“I’ve worked almost full-time for the past few months, which is great. It was really amazing, because it is primarily local businesses and organizations that are hiring us and asking us to do this work.”

There may even be a 14 Acre Farm cook book down the road, Quinn suggests.

And since they feel strongly about using locally-grown ingredients as much as possible, the time may come when the original 14-acre farm is a significant supplier to the catering company that bears its name.

With this year’s rhubarb crop already making its appearance, “I’m sure we’ll have lots of rhubarb on our menus soon,” Johnston notes.

For more about the 14 Acre Farm, including sample menus, go to http://www.hainesjunctioncatering.com/the-farm.html Freelance writer Ken Bolton is a former co-editor of What’s Up Yukon.

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y first idea was to write about women building for Habitat for Humanity. That fell through; no one got back to me. Then, I tried to get in touch with the Victoria Faulkner’s Women Centre to talk to about May being sexualized assault awareness month, but I was too last minute about it. I was on the hunt for a story about women, because May 7 is our “Women’s Issue”. Because this Sunday coming up is Mother’s Day. I didn’t want an obvious story.

When both stories fell through I was at a loss. Not a panic-y loss. I knew I could write something applicable.

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Last summer my family took over the city beach in Nelson, BC. It was sweltering — a simmering, dry, proper summer day.

The sand burned bare feet and we jumped in the frigid water every 15 minutes to stay cool.

Tim swam across the lake, my dad played guitar under an ancient walnut tree, my great aunt told my cousins and me stories about my grandma’s succession of crazy boyfriends, and my mom stuck her ice cream cone in her first grandson’s face when his mom wasn’t looking. Dave and Emmett obnoxiously passed a football over us all.

Looking back, it’s glaringly obvious that my mom was the only one not going in the water. Usually she’s the instigator, or stays in the longest. She’s always said a good dip is the perfect remedy for anything that ails. I didn’t notice at the time that she stayed on the shore.

sionally during her treatment so my dad didn’t have to commute everyday.

At the outset of the treatment she said six weeks seemed long, she’d just have to put her head down and devote herself to it.

“Besides,” she said, “Barb has stand-up paddleboards, and I’ve always wanted to try one.”

I cried when she said that. But quietly, into the phone.

My mom walked through the vineyards everyday she stayed over at Barb’s. She swam. She went to a different winery every so often. She bought a bottle or two.

She took them home with her on the weekends and stored her wine in the root cellar.

My dad watched it accumulate but he didn’t say anything.

She couldn’t drink wine during her treatment.

He insisted my mom buy a ski pass. He didn’t know if she’d be able to use it, but he couldn’t imagine her without PHOTO: Esther Deuling one. I know what he was doing.

I’m glad he did it.

After the six weeks were up my mom was in the roughest shape Mom fed George ice she’s been in. The treatment was cream on the beach worse than the cancer. She looked like she had songbird bones. She couldn’t eat. She napped away insist on getting together, he’s al- the afternoons. But she beat the ways said, there better be whisky. tumor.

At Christmas, we drank some And you better play Hank Wilof the wine. My mom called it her liams. Senior. And Neil Young.

My dad has dominated the cancer wine.

By the time she came to visit dying narrative.

But that’s how it goes. The in March, she said the wine was beam of light gets cancer. She had gone.

“You killed it,” I said. to get six weeks of radiation and “Yeah,” she said. chemotherapy in Kelowna, which “Just like the cancer.” is about an hour and forty minutes We simultaneously smiled and from where my parents live.

My mom’s sister Barb lives on a did double thumbs up. My dad slope above Okanagan Lake, in the shook his head and put his foreheart of wine country, just outside head in his hands. of Kelowna. Her property includes Meagan Deuling is the assistant a dock and boathouse on choppy, editor. Contact her at moody, mystical Okanagan Lake. meagan@whatsupyukon.com.

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uring the hour I spend interviewing Maureen Morris and Sandra Grace Storey I barely ask a question. The paths of the two artists have crossed more than once during their careers, but today is the first time they meet. They sink easily into the same bench and begin sharing techniques and inspirations. I sit across from them, an eavesdropper, taking notes.

Storey and Morris are two of the three female artists comprising North End Gallery’s group show, Where the Wild Things Are, opening this weekend. Storey is a sculptor, and Morris is a carver; both are long-time Northerners whose art is deeply inspired by landscapes and wildlife.

Born in Whitehorse, Storey “fled” when she was 17, to study sculpture in Vancouver. She worked at a place that held one of Morris’s early exhibits — an outrageously successful show with a lineup down the street. She was inspired.

She went on to spend the next 25 years in New Zealand before finding her way back to the Yukon in 2006, settling in Tagish, not far up the road from Morris.

Morris grew up in Vancouver, and also studied sculpture there, at the very same school as Storey, years earlier. She settled in Atlin 40 years ago, almost accidentally, during a road trip with her husband.

“It was a fluke,” she says. “We drove in and I said, ‘I’m staying.’”

Although she had been carving

jade at the time, it was here she discovered antler and bone, the materials that have kept her fascinated for the last 40 years.

“I tried caribou antler about a week after we got here,” she says.

“I never looked at jade again.”

Storey has a similar relationship to her own material of choice, which she’s worked with for the full 28 years of her career.

“I never could get away from clay,” she says. “I think if I just explored Tagish Lake and clay for the next 30 years I’d barely scratch the surface.”

And Morris’s work can attest to this. After 40 years working with the same antlers and bones in the same small Northern town, Maureen’s carvings continually explore new forms, images, themes, and even textures.

The other artist in the trio is Yellowknife-based painter Jennifer Walden. Best known for her large acrylic landscapes, the North End show will explore new territory.

“You’ll still see my landscapes,” she says.

“But I’ve been asking, how does the light hit these wild places? I’m trying to paint light as if it’s a tangible object in the air you can see.”

Hailing from Ontario, Walden has lived in the Northwest Territories for 13 years, and has been working full time as an artist since 2007.

“I’ve painted my whole life,” she says.

“It just hadn’t occurred to me

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It was a maternity leave that encouraged her to try it professionally. Away from her job, she rented a space and displayed her work. She sold 95 per cent of her pieces. She’s worked as both a full-time artist and a single mother since.

“For me having kids was the motivation I needed to get diligent and work hard enough — now I have people depending on me.”

It’s the same kind of story for Storey and Morris. At some point they just stopped working their other jobs.

“I guess you get to a time where you don’t have your whole life ahead of you,” Storey says.

Before that, both Storey and Morris supplemented their incomes by bartending while practicing their art on the side. It’s a tune I’ve been playing for years.

Storey assures me — “We started where you are now.”

Where the Wild Things Are opens with a reception on Friday, May 8 at North End Gallery.

The show runs until the end of the month.

Joslyn Kilborn is a part-time Whitehorse-based writer. One day she’ll be Joslyn Kilborn, writer. Contact her via editor@whatsupyukon.com.

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he closest I’ve come to being in a band was brought about through my love of the Spice Girls. When I was eleven, my friends and I entered a big impersonation contest at the mall, practicing our dance moves and lip-syncing for weeks beforehand.

As we grew older and our tastes evolved, we began visiting all-age music events where boys would play guitars loudly and scream into microphones and people would thrash and punch each other on the dance floor below the stage. I only ever saw a girl in one of these bands. She was good at screaming.

When I began dating, my boyfriends always seemed to play guitar. My first boyfriend wrote me a song called I Love Joslyn. When I moved to Toronto in my early twenties, an overwhelming majority of the men I hung out with were professional musicians, often in multiple bands. Some had even won Junos.

But I’ve only ever had one or two female friends who dabbled with instruments, mainly alone in their bedrooms. Very few of the women in my life have performed much music on a stage.

And I don’t think I’m alone in this experience.

According to Devon Berquist, the Dawson City Music Festival (DCMF) assistant producer, the

DCMF Association has noticed “a consistent lack of female representation across all genres of music.”

Which is exactly why they’re bringing Girls Rock Camp to the Yukon this summer.

You may have heard of it.

It began in Portland in 2001, and has since spread across the world.

It’s a weeklong camp where girls learn to play an instrument, make music, be in a band, and perform on stage. It’s a crash course in rock n’ roll, for eight to 15-year-olds.

“We want to create a safe space where girls feel comfortable opening up to each other,” says Berquist, who is spearheading the initiative.

“The point isn’t to do a flawless F chord or 4:4 time on drums, it’s about having fun, being wild and creative, and taking up space in a largely male-dominated music world.”

A team of five lady leaders, including local indie-rocker Sarah MacDougall, will be helping young girls march out of their self-consciousness and onto the stage through workshops that range from zine, poster, and button making, to tech 101, to body positivity and a history of women in rock.

On the last day of camp, girls will actually take the DCMF stage

to perform their newly created music.

“There aren’t a lot of camps where you get to share the stage with some of Canada’s top-notch musicians,” says Berquist.

A major aim of the camp is to remain accessible to all Yukon families. To do this, they are running an online Kickstarter fundraising campaign to cover the expenses of low-income and single parent families. They’re currently sitting at two-thirds of their $3000 goal, and they only have until May 15 to raise the remainder. Kickstarter runs on an all-or-nothing model, meaning if the campaign raises any less than the entire $3000, they don’t get any of it.

Every single dollar counts.

“It’s about supporting underrepresented demographics in the music world,” says Berquist, “and making all-girl bands a norm and not an exception to the rule.”

The Girls Rock Camp runs from July 20 to 25 in Dawson City. For more information go to www.yukongirlsrock.com. Visit www.bitly. com/1BK1JJ2 if you’re feeling moved to donate.

Joslyn Kilborn is a Whitehorsebased writer. She could be a rocker. Contact her via editor@whatsupyukon.com.

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On May 21, Victoria-based poet Arleen Paré will read from her book Lake of Two Mountains (Brick Books) at the Whitehorse Public Library, joined by Joanna Lilley.

Lake of Two Mountains was part of Paré’s MFA degree in creative writing, and it won the Governor General’s award for poetry.

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Paré has published fiction as well; Paper Trail is a book of lyrical prose, and is about Frances, the manager of a large corporation, who becomes overwhelmed by the destructive bureaucratic world she lives in. She loses body parts and has conversations with the ghost of Kafka who writes a manuscript in which she appears.

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Ironing clothes used to be a real adventure

is from the, â&#x20AC;&#x153;early 1900s, turn of the centuryâ&#x20AC;?.

Looking at it more closely, Sid confirms, â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is solid cast iron from the 1910s, around the time they had early electrical irons. Most people didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have electricity so you still had to use the old wood stove ones. Some people lived without electricity until the 1950s. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have approximately twenty-five irons around the museum and inside my house. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re from all different eras â&#x20AC;&#x201D; from ones in the 1800s right up to the early, early electric ones. Then there are other ones that you put coals in. Even have gas ones; I have two of them from the 1930s to 1940s.

You light up the gas ones just like the coal-oil lanterns. Caught lots of peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s clothes on fire.

Cast iron were a bit more reliable, hold the heat for a while. It must have been a real adventure back in those days ironing PHOTO: Teresa Vander Meer-Chasse clothes.â&#x20AC;?

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One thing that remains consistent is Sidâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s enthusiasm for storytelling and touring folks around his museum.

Today, Sid guides us through Bordertown Museumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s themed-rooms into a replica of a pioneerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cabin â&#x20AC;&#x201D; with wooden ďŹ&#x201A;oors and a beautiful vintage stove. Sid has everything in the replica cabin: a desk, chessboard, reading glasses, boots, long johns, and even clothing irons. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You heat them up on the stove,â&#x20AC;? Sid informs us about the clothing irons.

One iron, simple in style, has a very large air vent on the top. Holding it up, Sid explains, â&#x20AC;&#x153;These are the cast-iron ones that you put on the stove and heat up. The stove heats them up then you can use it. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll cool off and you put them back on the stove to heat up again.â&#x20AC;?

Still holding the unusual-looking clothing iron, Sid says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an old, really old one, probably from the early 1800s. I found it

in a barn on a farm in Alberta â&#x20AC;&#x201D; an old homestead of a buddy of mine. I found the iron in the attic of the barn in a pile of junk.â&#x20AC;?

Sidâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s good friend let him keep the iron and it has been on display in the museum ever since.

The second iron Sid shows us

These are Sid van der Meerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stories as dictated to his granddaughter Teresa Vander Meer-Chasse. Contact them at editor@whatsupyukon.com.

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Mon, May 11 C/TFN Carving Shed open 5:30 PM Carcross Carving Shed Keith Wolf Smarch will be in attendance to provide guidance/help with all manner of traditional artwork Tue, May 12 Elder’s Breakfast 10:00 AM The Old Daycare Tue, May 12 Sports Night 6:00 PM Ghùch Tlâ Community School Tue, May 12 Women’s Group 7:00 PM Carcross Community Campus 821-4251 Wed, May 13 Canada Prenatal Nutrition Program Lunch 12:00 PM The Old Daycare 821-4251 For more info:kathleen.cranfield@ ctfn.ca Wed, May 13 Hiroshikai Judo 6:00 PM Ghùch Tlâ Community School 332-1031 Wed, May 13 Sewing Group 6:00 PM CTFN Capacity Building Thu, May 14 Sewing Group 6:00 PM CTFN Capacity Building Thu, May 14 Prenatal Classes for Mothers and Fathers to be 7:00 PM Ghùch Tlâ Community School With Kathleen Cranfield,

Dawson City

Wed, May 6 Zumba with Katie Pearse 5:30 PM Robert Service School 867-993-5370 Join the Zumba craze with this Latin-inspired workout!

Wed, May 6 CFYT Trivia 8:00 PM The Billy Goat A fundraiser for CFYT local radio.

Thu, May 7 Hatha Yoga with Joanne VanNostrand 5:45 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture 867-993-5185 To confirm a scheduled class, email yogawithjoanne@me.com, 24 hours in advance. Cancellations will be emailed to registered students in advance.

Thu, May 7 Dawson City Burlesque Intensive 7:00 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture 993-5998 This class will teach you all of the knowledge and skills you need to get started as a beginner burlesque performer.

Fri, May 8 Super Seniors Weights 55+ 11:00 AM Dawson City Fitness Centre Fri, May 8 Women & Weights (Ladies Only) 12:00 PM Dawson City Fitness Centre Fri, May 8 Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Youth Centre 3:00 PM Tr’ondek Hwech’in Youth Centre Fri, May 8 Zumba with Katie Pearse 5:30 PM Robert Service School 867-993-5370 Join the Zumba craze with this Latin-inspired workout!

Sat, May 9 Hatha Yoga with Joanne VanNostrand 9:00 AM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture 867-993-5185 To confirm a scheduled class, email yogawithjoanne@me.com, 24 hours in advance. Cancellations will be emailed to registered students in advance.

Sat, May 9 Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Youth Centre 3:00 PM Tr’ondek Hwech’in Youth Centre Sun, May 10 St. Paul’s Church Service 10:30 AM St Paul’s Church 867-993-5381 Sun, May 10 Kids Dance!: Jazz 1:00 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture 993 5005 Your child will learn how to Jazz dance!

Sun, May 10 Kids Dance!: Creative Dance (Ages 5+6) 1:45 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture 993 5005 Your child will learn how to creatively dance!

Sun, May 10 Kids Dance!: Creative Dance (Ages 3+4) 2:30 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture 993 5005 Your child will learn how to creatively dance!

Sun, May 10 Kids Dance!: Parent & Tot 3:00 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture 993 5005 Dance with your toddler and have fun!

Mon, May 11 Super Seniors Weights 55+ 11:00 AM Dawson City Fitness Centre Mon, May 11 Women & Weights (Ladies Only) 12:00 PM Dawson City Fitness Centre Mon, May 11 Zumba with Katie Pearse 5:30 PM Robert Service School 867-993-5370 Join the Zumba craze with this Latin-inspired workout!

Mon, May 11 Hatha Yoga with Joanne VanNostrand 6:45 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture 867-993-5185 To confirm a scheduled class, email yogawithjoanne@me.com, 24 hours in advance. Cancellations will be emailed to registered students in advance.

Tue, May 12 Step n Strong 7:00 PM Robert Service School 867-993-2520 For more information email: getrealfit(at)me.com Tue, May 12 Dawson City Council Meeting 7:00 PM Dawson City Town Hall 867-9937400 The meetings are aired live on Dawson City TV Channel 12. Council holds a Question Period at each meeting that takes place towards the end of the meeting. This provides the public an opportunity to ask Council questions.

Tue, May 12 Dawson City Burlesque Intensive 7:00 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture 993-5998 This class will teach you all of the knowledge and skills you

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Wed, May 13 CFYT Trivia 8:00 PM The Billy Goat A fundraiser for CFYT local radio.

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Fri, May 15 Super Seniors Weights 55+ 11:00 AM Dawson City Fitness Centre Fri, May 15 Dawson City International Gold Show 12:00 PM Dawson City 993-5274 Fri, May 15 Women & Weights (Ladies Only) 12:00 PM Dawson City Fitness Centre Fri, May 15 Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Youth Centre 3:00 PM Tr’ondek Hwech’in Youth Centre Fri, May 15 Zumba with Katie Pearse 5:30 PM Robert Service School 867-993-5370 Join the Zumba craze with this Latin-inspired workout!

Faro

Wed, May 6 Parent & Tot Story Time 11:00 AM Faro Community Library For Babies to age 4. Stories & crafts will be provided Wed, May 6 Play Group 2:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre 994-2375 farorecreation@ faroyukon.ca Wed, May 6 Archery 4:30 PM Faro Recreation Centre 994-2375 farorecreation@ faroyukon.ca Wed, May 6 Kids Floor Hockey 4:30 PM Faro Recreation Centre 11 and under, equipment provided if needed Wed, May 6 Adults Floor Hockey 7:30 PM Faro Recreation Centre 12+, equipment provided if needed Thu, May 7 Seniors Carpet Bowling 1:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre Thu, May 7 Basketball 4:30 PM Faro Recreation Centre All ages and abilities welcome.

Thu, May 7 Zumba 7:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre Fri, May 8 Play Group 2:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre 994-2375 farorecreation@ faroyukon.ca Fri, May 8 Kids Games 3:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre Ages 6-11. Please register at the rec centre.

Fri, May 8 Kids in the Kitchen Cooking Program 4:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre 994-2375 farorecreation@faroyukon.ca Fri, May 8 Archery 4:30 PM Faro Recreation Centre 994-2375 farorecreation@faroyukon. ca Fri, May 8 Seniors Fitness class 7:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre Fri, May 8 Youth Games 7:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre Ages 12-18. Please register at the rec centre.

Fri, May 8 12+ Sticks and Pucks 7:30 PM Father Rigaud Arena Sat, May 9 Faro Kettle Cafe 2:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre Hosted by the Faro Youth Group.

Sun, May 10 Faro Church of Apostles Mass 10:00 AM Church of Apostles Sun, May 10 Faro Bible Chapel Sunday Service 10:30 AM Faro Bible Chapel 9942442 with Pastor Ted Baker 994-2442 Sun, May 10 Family Sticks and Pucks 1:00 PM Father Rigaud Arena

Tue, May 12 Seniors Carpet Bowling 1:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre Tue, May 12 Faro Kettle Cafe 4:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre Hosted by the Faro Youth Group.

Tue, May 12 Tai Chi Faro 6:30 PM Faro Recreation Centre With Lucy Moreira, Free Drop In Meet at the Youth Lounge Wed, May 13 Parent & Tot Story Time 11:00 AM Faro Community Library For Babies to age 4. Stories & crafts will be provided Wed, May 13 Play Group 2:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre 994-2375 farorecreation@ faroyukon.ca Wed, May 13 Kids Floor Hockey 4:30 PM Faro Recreation Centre 11 and under, equipment provided if needed Wed, May 13 Archery 4:30 PM Faro Recreation Centre 994-2375 farorecreation@ faroyukon.ca Wed, May 13 Adults Floor Hockey 7:30 PM Faro Recreation Centre 12+, equipment provided if needed Thu, May 14 Seniors Carpet Bowling 1:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre Thu, May 14 Basketball 4:30 PM Faro Recreation Centre All ages and abilities welcome.

Thu, May 14 Zumba 7:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre Fri, May 15 Introduction To Silver-Smithing Yukon College Faro Campus with instructor Shelley MacDonald Cost $25, must preregister age 18+ Fri, May 15 Play Group 2:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre 994-2375 farorecreation@ faroyukon.ca Fri, May 15 Kids Games 3:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre Ages 6-11. Please register at the rec centre.

Fri, May 15 Kids in the Kitchen Cooking Program 4:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre 994-2375 farorecreation@faroyukon.ca Fri, May 15 Archery 4:30 PM Faro Recreation Centre 994-2375 farorecreation@ faroyukon.ca Fri, May 15 Seniors Fitness class 7:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre Fri, May 15 Youth Games 7:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre Ages 12-18. Please register at the rec centre.

Fri, May 15 12+ Sticks and Pucks 7:30 PM Father Rigaud Arena

Haines Junction

Wed, May 6 Kindermusik 10:30 AM St Elias Convention Centre geared towards children ages 2-3 accompanied by an adult.Any preschool child is welcome to attend (0-5) Thu, May 7 Elders’ Tea & Fitness Lunch 11:00 AM Mun Ku Thu, May 7 Adult Soccer 7:30 PM St. Elias Community School Sun, May 10 St Christopher’s Church Service 10:30 AM St Christopher’s Church 867-634-2360 Licensed Lay Leader: Lynn De Brabandere Mon, May 11 Fitness Classes - Pilates & Yoga 5:15 PM Da Ku Cultural Centre Tue, May 12 Southern Tutchone Classes 12:00 PM Da Ku Cultural Centre Tue, May 12 Takhini Family Game Night 7:00 PM Takhini Hall Wed, May 13 Kindermusik 10:30 AM St Elias Convention Centre geared towards children ages 2-3 accompanied by an adult.Any preschool child is welcome to attend (0-5) Thu, May 14 Elders’ Tea & Fitness Lunch 11:00 AM Mun Ku Thu, May 14 Adult Soccer 7:30 PM St. Elias Community School

Marsh Lake

Wed, May 6 Beginner Bellydance lessons Marsh Lake Community Centre 335-9625 followed by hot apple cider and refreshments.

Wed, May 6 Adult Basic Fitness 6:30 PM Marsh Lake Community Centre

Wed, May 6 Waste Mgnt Society Meeting 7:00 PM Marsh Lake Community Centre Fri, May 8 Dinner at the Jackalope 6:00 PM Marsh Lake Community Centre Reservations welcome. Steak/Rib Nights - last Friday of each month Fri, May 8 Drop-in Basketball 7:30 PM Marsh Lake Community Centre Sat, May 9 Tot Program 10:00 AM Marsh Lake Community Centre Sun, May 10 Badminton Drop-in 11:30 AM Marsh Lake Community Centre 660-4999 All welcome Tue, May 12 North of 60 Cafe 2:00 PM Marsh Lake Community Centre Tue, May 12 Yoga With Richard 5:30 PM Marsh Lake Community Centre (867) 660.4545 Richard is a certified IYENGAR Yoga instructor Wed, May 13 Beginner Bellydance lessons Marsh Lake Community Centre 335-9625 followed by hot apple cider and refreshments.

Wed, May 13 Adult Basic Fitness 6:30 PM Marsh Lake Community Centre Fri, May 15 Dinner at the Jackalope 6:00 PM Marsh Lake Community Centre Reservations welcome. Steak/Rib Nights last Friday of each month Fri, May 15 Drop-in Basketball 7:30 PM Marsh Lake Community Centre

Mayo

Wed, May 6 Soccer K to Grade 3 12:00 PM J.V. Clark School 996-2317 School Gym Wed, May 6 Drop in Basketball 7:00 PM J.V. Clark School 996-2317 Mayo School Gym Wed, May 6 Drop in Volleyball 8:00 PM J.V. Clark School 996-2317 Drop in volleyball Fri, May 8 Elementary drop in gym night 5:00 PM J.V. Clark School 996-2317 drop in gym night Fri, May 8 Dinner and a movie night 5:00 PM Mayo Community Centre 996-2317 Fri, May 8 High School drop in gym night 8:30 PM J.V. Clark School 996-2317 drop in gym night for high school kids

Mt. Lorne

Wed, May 6 Kids Craft time 3:00 PM Lorne Mountain Community Centre Thu, May 7 Playgroup for parents 3:00 PM Lorne Mountain Community Centre Agnes 667-7083 Fri, May 8 Learning Lions - Homeschoolers Get Together 3:00 PM Lorne Mountain Community Centre Agnes 667-7083 Wed, May 13 Kids Craft time 3:00 PM Lorne Mountain Community Centre Thu, May 14 Playgroup for parents 3:00 PM Lorne Mountain Community Centre Agnes 667-7083 Fri, May 15 Learning Lions Homeschoolers Get Together 3:00 PM Lorne Mountain Community Centre Agnes 667-7083

Old Crow

Thu, May 7 Adult Night at the Youth Centre 7:00 PM Old Crow Community Center Sun, May 10 St. Luke’s Church Service 11:00 AM St. Lukes Church 867-993-5381 Mon, May 11 Volleyball & Floor Hockey Night 7:00 PM Old Crow Community Center Saniz 966-3238 Thu, May 14 Adult Night at the Youth Centre 7:00 PM Old Crow Community Center

Tagish

All events held at the Tagish Community Centre 399-3418 or 399-3407 Wed, May 6 Library and Treasures Thrift Shop 12:00 PM Tagish Community Centre Wed, May 6 Tagish Library 12:00 PM Tagish Community Centre 399-3418 Wed, May 6 Cruizers Concession Coffee & Chat 2:00 PM Tagish Community Centre

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Thu, May 7 Osteofit 10:00 AM Tagish Community Centre 399-3407 Thu, May 7 Carpet Bowling 11:15 AM Tagish Community Centre 399-3407 Sat, May 9 Tagish Library 12:00 PM Tagish Community Centre 399-3418 Sat, May 9 Music Jam 5:00 PM Tagish Community Centre Everyone is welcome to come and play, or enjoy!

Mon, May 11 Carpet Bowling 11:15 AM Tagish Community Centre 399-3407 Tue, May 12 Stay Get Fit 6:00 PM Tagish Community Centre 399-3407 Wed, May 13 Library and Treasures Thrift Shop 12:00 PM Tagish Community Centre Wed, May 13 Tagish Library 12:00 PM Tagish Community Centre 399-3418 Wed, May 13 Cruizers Concession Coffee & Chat 2:00 PM Tagish Community Centre Thu, May 14 Osteofit 10:00 AM Tagish Community Centre 399-3407 Thu, May 14 Carpet Bowling 11:15 AM Tagish Community Centre 399-3407

Sun, May 10 TRX Suspension Training w/ Abby 4:30 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Mon, May 11 Spinning w/Katherine 8:30 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Mon, May 11 Restorative Yoga: All Level w/Jasmine 10:00 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Mon, May 11 TRX Suspension Training 4:30 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Mon, May 11 Spinning w/Cindy 5:30 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Mon, May 11 Soccer for Adults 7:00 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Mon, May 11 Windy Valley Boys 7:30 PM Red Onion Saloon Tue, May 12 Chair and Mat Pilates w/ Katherine 8:30 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Tue, May 12 Breathing with Rain 10:15 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Tue, May 12 SR weights with Rain 10:30 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Tue, May 12 Spinning Xpress w/Charity 12:00 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Tue, May 12 After School Rock Climbing & Open Gym 3:15 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Tue, May 12 Spinning with Tom 5:45 PM Skagway Recreation Centre

Wed, May 6 Tlingit Language Class 3:30 PM Sheldon Museum & Cultural Centre Wed, May 13 Tlingit Language Class 3:30 PM Sheldon Museum & Cultural Centre

Skagway

Wed, May 6 Spinning w/Katherine 8:30 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Wed, May 6 Back/Hip Yoga: Level 2 w/ Katherine 10:00 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Wed, May 6 After School Creativity & Open Gym 3:15 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Wed, May 6 Stretch & Breathe: All Levels w/ Jeanne 4:30 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Wed, May 6 TRX Suspension Training 4:30 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Wed, May 6 Stretch & Breathe with Jeanne 5:00 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Wed, May 6 Spinning w/Cindy 5:30 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Thu, May 7 Stick and Mat Pilates w/ Katherine 8:30 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Thu, May 7 Breathing with Rain 10:15 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Thu, May 7 SR weights with Rain 10:30 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Thu, May 7 Spinning Xpress w/Charity 12:00 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Thu, May 7 After School Culinary Arts & Open Gym 3:15 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Thu, May 7 TRX Suspension Training w/ Katherine 5:30 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Thu, May 7 Spinning with Tom 5:45 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Thu, May 7 Zumba w/Tabitha 6:00 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Thu, May 7 Basketball for Adults 7:00 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Fri, May 8 Spinning w/Katherine 8:30 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Fri, May 8 Gentle Yoga: All Levels w/ Jasmine 10:00 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Fri, May 8 Spinning/Yoga Level 1 w/ Courtney 4:30 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Sat, May 9 Sea Kayaking 101 9:00 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Full one day training program emphasizes safety, enjoyment and skill acquisition for entry level paddlers as well as those needing a refresher lesson.

Sat, May 9 Spinning w/Cindy 10:00 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Sat, May 9 Gnat King Kong 9:00 PM Red Onion Saloon Sun, May 10 Sea Kayaking 102 9:00 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Full one day training program emphasizes safety, enjoyment and skill acquisition for entry level paddlers as well as those needing a refresher lesson. How to maneuver with precision and control when waves and wind picks up.

Sun, May 10 Piano Sundays 1:00 PM Skagway Public Library Come to the library to listen or play...its the one time you won’t be shushed for making noise!

Teslin

Wed, May 6 Card Games for Seniors 1:00 PM Teslin Seniors Complex Wed, May 6 Archery 3:30 PM Teslin School Thu, May 7 Youth Badminton 3:30 PM Teslin School Sun, May 10 St. Philip’s Church Service 11:00 AM St. Philip’s Church (867) 667-7746 Sun, May 10 Seniors Carpet Bowling 1:00 PM Teslin Rec Center Mon, May 11 Archery 3:30 PM Teslin School Tue, May 12 Youth Badminton 3:30 PM Teslin School Wed, May 13 Card Games for Seniors 1:00 PM Teslin Seniors Complex Wed, May 13 Archery 3:30 PM Teslin School Thu, May 14 Youth Badminton 3:30 PM Teslin School

Watson Lake

Thu, May 7 Help and Hope Drop in for Moms and Kids 1:00 PM Watson Lake Recreation Centre Crafts and Activities together!

Thu, May 7 Girls Night Youth group 7:00 PM Watson Lake Recreation Centre Sun, May 10 St. John’s Church Service 10:00 AM St. John’s Church Service (867) 536-2932 Mon, May 11 Help and Hope Drop in for Moms and Kids 1:00 PM Watson Lake Recreation Centre Crafts and Activities together!

Thu, May 14 Help and Hope Drop in for Moms and Kids 1:00 PM Watson Lake Recreation Centre Crafts and Activities together!

Thu, May 14 Girls Night Youth group 7:00 PM Watson Lake Recreation Centre

Haines

Fri, Apr 3 Spring: A Culture of Eagles Exhibit Sheldon Museum & Cultural Centre A cultural exploration of eagles in the Chilkat Valley through history This strong icon permeates Tlingit legend, myth, art, ceremony and even social structure.

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Part Four

by Erma Odrach The following excerpt is based on true events that took place around 1980. What’s Up Yukon’s editorial staff would like to remind you that there are laws in the Yukon against wasting meat.

Part One was published on Jan. 29, 2015; Part Two on Feb. 26, 2015; Part Three on April 30. This is the final installment. We left the three French guys as they had just retrieved the remains of a moose that other hunters had left behind. Go to www.whatsupyukon. com to see the full story. Look for it in the “Literature” section.

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hen they finally arrived in Whitehorse the sun had long since gone down and it was almost pitchblack. The moon and stars became lost behind the clouded sky and it started to snow.

Claude said as he pulled into Marcel’s driveway, “We’re going to have to divide the meat up three ways. It has to hang for at least a couple of days; you know, to bleed it out, to bring out the flavour, and to tenderize it. I don’t have enough room in my place for all of it.”

Marcel shook his head. “Oh no, you can’t expect me to take some of it into my house. I’m a vegetar-

ian, remember? No, it’s absolutely out of the question, not to mention, Alicia would have a fit.”

“But she’s not even here and she won’t be back for another week, you said so yourself. Hang it for a couple of days and then I’ll come by with Jacques to pick it up. You don’t want it to go to waste do you?”

Marcel drew a deep breath and thought it over. He said with a gesture of irritation, “But I don’t even have anywhere to hang it.

It’s not like I have a garage like you do.”

“Well, hang it in the house then, wherever you can. A few days and it’ll be done. Come on, don’t be such a little brat about it.”

In the end Marcel gave in, though reluctantly. Lining the floor in the kitchen with newsprint he then hung up the meat from the ceiling by hooks, but there was too much of it, so he moved the remainder into the living room.

The odor was everywhere. He was upset and angry with himself for allowing Claude to talk him into it. But it would only be for a few days and he would have plenty of time to clean things up before Alicia got home.

But what Marcel didn’t know was that Alicia, having wrapped things up early, was at that very moment on her way back to

the place — big red blocks of raw meat hanging from the ceiling, and there was blood on the floor.

Her face turned a ghost white.

She started to scream and she screamed as if the life was being taken out of her.

Neighbours came rushing out to see what all the noise was about and passersby gathered round the front yard. Someone called the police.

When the police arrived, Alicia was still screaming. Taking out their guns, slowly, cautiously, starting for the house, the police were convinced some kind of terrible crime had been committed in there, maybe even a murder.

They were preparing for the worst.

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Whitehorse; in fact, she was almost there. She never bothered calling because she wanted to surprise him.

When Alicia arrived at the house it was already dark. Marcel

her trip, all she wanted was to kick off her shoes and take a long, hot bath.

As she was about to set her luggage on the floor, something unexpectedly hit up against her

was not at home; he was at the KK drinking with his buddies. Rummaging in her purse for her keys, she couldn’t seem to find them. If only there was some light. Going round back she decided to try the kitchen door, which was often left unlocked. Turning the knob, to her great relief the door opened and she went inside. Exhausted from

forehead, and it was wet and slimy and kind of soft. It was the strangest feeling and she didn’t know what to make of it. And there was an odd odor everywhere and it was very unpleasant.

What was going on? Switching on the light, she froze on the spot; she was horrified by the gruesome scene. There was carnage all over

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Erma Odrach is an Ontariobased writer. Three French Guys and the Moose is a true story, though fictionalized to some extent. The story is taken from a yet unpublished book she’s currently working on entitled Alaska or Bust and Other Stories. Contact Erma via editor@whatsupyukon.com.

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A Northern Diary

Carolyn Vincent taught in the Yukon in the ’70s and also cooked for an outfitter for a few months in 1976. She typed out a diary of what her life was like during that time. Last time we left her, she was just finishing her first day on the trail to camp. Here is the third excerpt:

by Carolyn Vincent SATURDAY JULY 11, 1976

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riday — after leaving Godlin — was a pretty good day. I can’t remember much of it, but Saturday, July 11 (the seventh day of traveling) was just horrid!

It was a long day and midway my dog got into a porcupine.

There were quills in his tongue, throat, face and legs. Naturally, we couldn’t stop all 53 horses, so Ormand and I got some crucial ones out and then we had to wait until evening.

I worried all day and, of course, it had to rain in torrents as we approached our biggest river yet.

The Twitya was deep, fast, and wide. The swim across ruined my Minolta camera because it had been in the saddlebag and it got soaked. There went my photography career!

Hansel howled as my horse and I swam away. The rain was so thick that I couldn’t see. Leon went back for my dog. Somehow he managed to get Hansel to stay on the horse as he himself got on, and to hold onto him as they swam across.

I was so relieved! But, as I was comforting my pinpricked, wet dog, I lost the rest of the herd. My horse had to find his way on his own. Once, I tried to take command myself and Patches nearly threw me, so I let him do it his own way (he was smarter anyway).

Finally, we did catch up and then we had the fun of setting up camp in the rain — eating in the rain — dishes in the rain — and pulling quills out of the dog in the rain. One of the barbs didn’t come out of the roof of Hansel’s mouth and I think it’s worked its way into his nasal passage now, because he’s been snorting badly.

Sunday was a long and scary day for me, because we went through “Devil’s Canyon”. There were huge boulders, and lots of washed out creek beds that broke

Here is my lovely orange home set up at McClure Lake. Sometimes Hansel would sleep inside with me as in late August and September, the temperatures were sometimes below freezing and the dog helped warm up the tent — a bit. I also had a pack from the horse with my stuff in it. My sleeping bag was huge and warm. I still have it 40 years later!

up the trail. This meant that the horses had to sit back on their bums to slide down. Sometimes I closed my eyes. Once the horses tried to cross at the wrong place and they got swept off their feet — an amazing sight!

The final day of trailing in was Monday. Ormand, John, and

Transform light into beauty.

I let Leon and Andrew pack up first. They took Perry’s 37 horses, leaving us with Ormand’s 16. It’s something how the horses all follow along — some are contrary and never seem to stay in line — but, they all come along eventually. I don’t think they want to get lost in this vast wilderness anymore

than I. Finally, about 1:00 or so, we set out for our final destination of McClure Lake. We followed the Canol Road ten more miles and then left it going westerly for the final eight miles. This was through the boggy muskeg now. We were in a huge meadow-y type of an

area with the Carcajou River cutting through it, but then the slate mountains cut a high line to the north and south of us and hemmed us in. Sheep mountains.

Carolyn Vincent lives in Victoria, B.C. Contact her via editor@whatsupyukon.com.

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