Whitehorse 6-21 & 22,2012

We arrived in Whitehorse late afternoon on the 21st. Parked in the Wal-Mart. I talked to another RV’r that told me he counted the rv’s there about 9pm & there were 54. We came back from driving around town @ 10:30 & there were at least 4 that came in then. So I think Wal-Mart is popular place in Whitehorse. I wish I would have had Steve go on the roof & take a pix but I forgot.

 

After we had dinner we took a drive around town & took some pix before the streets were full of traffic. Steve was anxious to see the SS Klondike. There were alot of murals so we took some pix between 9 & 10 @ nite.

    

 

The SS Klondike was the last of the stern wheel paddle boats on the Yukon River operating up until 1955 making trips to Dawson City.  It burned a cord of wood every 2 hrs and had to stop on the river many times to get wood that would be cut and stacked for them. In the pix to the right there’s a room to the back of the boat. That is the meat room. It was kept cold by the river water spraying up from the paddle wheel. The roof to the front of pix is where the fruit & veggies were kept.

First class passengers had a surprising taste of the good life while the rest of the passengers ate with the crew and had to sleep with the cargo. 

The Yukon Beringia Interpretive Center has life sized exhibits of animals of the Ice Age. And a replicia of how the First Nation people would have lived in the winter.

In town there were some totem pole’s

  

This real Douglas DC-3 Plain is an actual moving weather vain. We watched it move when the wind changed direction. And the Horse Statue is outside a fire station. You go by it when leaving town. It’s made from spare scrap metal donated by people of the city of Whitehorse. The Fireman statue is also there.     

We also saw the Transportation Museum, The MacBride Museum But I don’t have very good pix of them. And the Kwanlin Dun Cultural Center but they had some kind of teaching event going on & it was very busy. Didn’t take any pix there.  

That’s it for Whitehorse…on to Dawson City, Yukon Territory.