Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Whitehorse's two major English-language newspapers are the Whitehorse Daily Star (founded as a weekly in 1900, it currently published three times per week) and the Yukon News (founded as a weekly in 1960 by Ken Shortt, published five days a week from 1967 to 1999, and currently prints twice weekly).
The newspaper was founded in 1900 about a year after the Klondike Gold Rush ended. The paper was originally called the Northern Star, by was later changed to the White Horse Star, Whitehorse Daily Star and since 2019 as the Whitehorse Star.
This is a list of mayors of Whitehorse, the capital of the Canadian territory of Yukon. Whitehorse has had an elected mayor and council since its incorporation as a city in 1950; prior to that, Whitehorse existed as an unincorporated settlement with no local municipal government.
The City of Whitehorse is a local government area in Victoria, Australia in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne. It has an area of 64.3 km 2 (25 sq mi) and an estimated residential population of 171,167 as of June 2021.
Yukon [a] is the smallest and westernmost of Canada's three territories.It is the most densely populated of the three territories, with an estimated population of 46,948 as of 2024, [3] though it has a smaller population than all provinces.
The current settlement was founded by Joseph Ladue and named in January 1897 after noted Canadian geologist George M. Dawson, who had explored and mapped the region in 1887. It served as Yukon's capital from the territory's founding in 1898 until 1952, when the seat was moved to Whitehorse. View of 3rd Street c. 1899 by Eric A. Hegg 1941 aerial ...
In 1993 the Whitehorse Huskies won the Allan Cup by defeating the Quesnel Kangaroos in the Final. After taking the coveted Allan Cup back to the Yukon , the team hung up their skates. [ 1 ] The Huskies are the only teams from the Yukon, Northwest Territories , or Nunavut to have ever won the Allan Cup.
Donald W. Branigan (1933 – June 27, 1999) was a Canadian politician and medical doctor, best known as a former mayor of Whitehorse, Yukon. [1] As a medical doctor, he was also noted for his frequent legal conflicts with medical licensing bodies opposed to his use of holistic medical practices such as acupuncture.