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Article: CANADA SPECIAL; News from the Ice Age The Yukon is never far from its past - whether it's the gold rush or the Ice Age. In Whitehorse, our correspondent meets the ghost of miners - and mammoths.(TRAVEL)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- May 3, 1998
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Whitehorse has one of those evocative names whose reality, you can almost bet, won't match what you imagined before you got there.
So if hearing "Whitehorse" makes you think of lonely log cabins and Sgt. Preston of the Mounties, you'll be as surprised as I was to find that the capital of the Yukon Territory has a tidy, modern downtown with plenty of plastic, new storefronts and bright lights.
That was a tad disappointing. Fortunately for us romantics,
there still are some log cabins - including a three-story log apartment tower, now a local landmark - and a few really unusual historic cottages.
The cottages started out as gold miners' ...