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Articles tagged with Yukon (43)
A cultural gold rush
After spending more than a century in the shadow cast by the Klondike’s precious metal heyday, First Nations heritage is stepping into the limelight in the Yukon
The spell of the Yukon
An insider’s account of the Yukon’s modern-day gold rush
Source: Canadian Geographic, October 2012
Department:
Feature stories
Contributors:
Scott Berdahl
,
Marlin Olynyk
Tags:
British Columbia, Fossils, Gold, Gold mining, Gold Rush, Klondike, Mining, Robert Service, Tombstone Territorial Park, Vancouver, British Columbia, Whitehorse, Yukon, Yukon, Yukon River
Field station woes
Cut off from federal funding, field stations look for new ways to stay afloat
Source: Canadian Geographic, October 2012
Department:
Discovery
Contributors:
Samia Madwar
Tags:
Alberta, Algonquin Provincial Park, Ecology, Edmonton, Alberta, Environment, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Kluane Lake Research Station, Nanoparticles, Nanotechnology, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, Ontario, Peterborough, Ontario, Research station, Whitehorse, Yukon, Yukon
The Yukon’s quest
The territory grapples with meeting energy needs of growing populations and booming businesses
All in a day’s walk
How it’s done in just one day
Small-town murder scene
Buried bones tell the tale of the Nantuck brothers during the Yukon gold rush
Sense of place
Writers and artists explore how geography shapes their work
Mount Logan from above
Anatomy of an aerial shoot over Yukon’s Mount Logan, Canada’s highest peak
Snake River wild
The clash between conservation and exploitation plays out in the Yukon’s Peel watershed
First Nations Face Border Struggles
In a land with no lines, how do you define the end of one territory and the beginning of another?
Icefield of dreams
For 50 years, scientists have flocked to a Yukon research camp near Canada’s highest peak
A walk in the park
Provincial parks don’t always get their due, so it’s time to highlight 25 of Canada’s provincial and territorial playgrounds to explore this year
Source: Canadian Geographic Travel, March 2009
Department:
Feature stories
Tags:
Alberta, Basin Head Provincial Park, Blomidon Provincial Park, Bowron Lake Provincial Park, British Columbia, Buffalo Pound Provincial Park, Carmanah Walbran Provincial Park, Chance Cove Provincial Park, Five Islands Provincial Park, French River Provincial Park, Gooseberry Cove Provincial Park, Hopewell Rocks, Katannilik Territorial Park Reserve, Killarney Provincial Park, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ontario, Panmure Island Provincial Park, Parc national de la Gaspésie, Parc national du Saguenay, Prelude Lake Territorial Park, Prince Edward Island, Provincial parks, Quebec, Quetico Provincial Park, Sambaa Deh Falls Territorial Park, Saskatchewan, Sleeping Giant Provincial Park, Sylvia Grinnell Territorial Park, Tombstone Territorial Park, Whiteshell Provincial Park, Woolastook Park, Writing-On-Stone Provincial Park, Yukon
Hungry as a bear
A Yukon river’s warm waters create a rich microclimate for spawning salmon — and gorging grizzlies
25 sunny, sandy escapes
Great Canadian strands to swim, surf and explore this summer
Source: Canadian Geographic Travel, May 2008
Department:
Feature stories
Tags:
Alberta, Beaches, British Columbia, Cape Breton Highlands National Park, Cape Enrage, Carcross, Yukon, Cold Lake, Ellison Provincial Park, Georgian Bay, Hopewell Cape, New Brunswick, Îles-de-la-Madeleine, Kluane National Park and Reserve, Lake Winnipeg, Manitoba, National parks, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Okanagan Valley, Ontario, Pinware River Provincial Park, Point Pelee National Park, Prince Edward Island, Prince Edward Island National Park, Provincial parks, Quebec, Sandbanks Provincial Park, Saskatchewan, Shediac, New Brunswick, The Arches Provincial Park, Watrous, Yukon
The Klondike express
All aboard the White Pass & Yukon Route Railroad, which once carried gold seekers to the promised land
Source: Canadian Geographic Travel, March 2008
Department:
Feature stories
Contributors:
Curtis Gillespie
,
Derek Crowe
People of the delta
Scattered across the vast reaches of the Mackenzie Delta, five small Arctic communities are home to a mix of newcomers from across the country and around the world and First Nations people still living off the land.Will a $16 billion gas-pipeline project be their salvation or their destruction?
The Mackenzie Delta
Thirty years after the initial project was proposed, the Mackenzie Gas Pipeline public hearings and panels are moving ahead for a final decision by 2008.
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