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Whitehorse was represented by 9 of 18 MLAs in Yukon's Legislative Assembly, as per the 2002 map of Yukon electoral districts. [71] In 2009 Yukon's electoral map was modified to give Whitehorse an extra seat, bringing its total up to 10 out of 19.
Hwy 1 southeast of Whitehorse: 2, 3 North Klondike Highway: 524 326 Hwy 1 north of Whitehorse: Hwy 9 in Dawson City: 4 Haines Road: 175.0 108.7 AK-7 at U.S. border Hwy 1 in Haines Junction: 9 Robert Campbell Highway: 583 362 Hwy 1 in Watson Lake: Hwy 2 in Carmacks: 11 Dempster Highway: 465 289 Hwy 2 near Glenboyle: Highway 8 southwest of Fort ...
Residents and travelers, and the government of the Yukon, do not use "east" and "west" to refer to direction of travel on the Yukon section, even though this is the predominant bearing of the Yukon portion of the highway; "north" and "south" are used, referring to the south (Dawson Creek) and north (Delta Junction) termini of the highway.
The White Pass and Yukon Route (WP&Y, WP&YR) (reporting mark WPY) is a Canadian and U.S. Class III 3 ft (914 mm) narrow-gauge railroad linking the port of Skagway, Alaska, with Whitehorse, the capital of Yukon. An isolated system, it has no direct connection to any other railroad.
The Klondike Highway winds in the state of Alaska for 24 km (15 miles), up through the White Pass in the Coast Mountains where it crosses the Canada–US border to British Columbia (BC) for 56 km (35 miles), then enters Yukon where it reaches the Alaska Highway near Whitehorse and shares a short section with that highway until north of Whitehorse, where it diverges once more to Dawson City.
Downtown Whitehorse originally encompassed the entirety of Whitehorse prior to the Second World War. After the war, the periphery was developed, with residents beginning to move into the Riverdale subdivision on the east bank of the river, and to suburbs outside the city limits such as Porter Creek, then to the Takhini and Hillcrest subdivisions after the military withdrew from the city in 1968.
Whitehorse is the capital of Yukon and its only city. The remaining seven municipalities are towns, of which four were villages that were continued as towns upon adoption of the 2001 Municipal Act. [5] Over two-thirds of the population of Yukon (28,201 residents; 70.1%) reside in Whitehorse, the largest municipality in the territory. [1]
Carcross station is a railway station in Carcross, Yukon, Canada. It serves the White Pass and Yukon Route heritage railway. The station is the northernmost terminus for passenger railway services on the line, with connecting bus services to Whitehorse, Yukon. The building was designated a national heritage railway station in 1991. [2]