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Spring 2009

Inside

Editor's note
Spring to life

Miscellanea
North of Ordinary trivia,
North of Ordinary on tour,
Your letters

Message from Joe Sparling,
President of Air North, Yukon´s Airline

Travel the Yukon
Three things to do in the Yukon this spring

Where are they now?
Catching up with Katie Hopkins and Larry Bidlake

Extra! Extra!
Yukon newsmakers

Venture north
Interviews with Bearpaw Music and Gifts,
Equinox Adventure Learning and The Chocolate Claim

Yukon spotlight
A tale of two photos

One picture may be worth a thousand words, but two pictures can have an unimaginable value Reason can be elusive. At the time when the photographs on pages 29 and 30 were taken by E.J. Hamacher in Whitehorse, between 1911 and 1916, technology was such that a candid photo was unheard of. Subjects in photographs had to remain still for seconds at a time; otherwise, the image would blur. The Kodak, invented in 1888, was the first box camera to use flexible film and it made photography accessible to the general public. But, it was still very much a posed art form well into the following century. Jerome Stueart set out to find the reason behind these two photographs, taken consecutively, and discovered a story of might-have-beens and mistaken identities. READ MORE IN THE SPRING 2009 ISSUE OF YUKON, NORTH OF ORDINARY.

Citysnap calendar

What's going on in the Yukon, Vancouver,
Edmonton and Calgary.

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Features

Home sustainable

Check out the plans for the USH-Y, the ultimate sustainable home—the Yukon version. READ MORE IN THE SPRING 2009 ISSUE OF YUKON, NORTH OF ORDINARY.


Green grows the territory

By Janelle Hardy

Yukon communities are embarking on greenhouse and garden projects that address food-security issues and much more.

"Mmm, what’s in this?” I ask my mom, as I close my mouth around a forkful of salad. She replies that the greens are from her backyard garden and the small tomatoes were grown in the sunny corner on her deck.
Mom, Dad, friends, brothers, sister, my daughter—my whole family has gathered for a meal. The potatoes in the potato salad are from our family plot at the community garden down the street. The cubes of sheep and moose on the kebabs are from a hunting friend. The garnish of wild cranberries and rosehips were gathered the previous autumn. READ MORE IN THE SPRING 2009 ISSUE OF YUKON, NORTH OF ORDINARY.

Talking about our community

By Leighann Chalykoff

Looking at the present and into the future of the Yukon.

Being healthy is a lot more than not getting sick. A fit person is in “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being”, according to the World Health Organization.
Here are three perspectives on how to care for Yukoners and make sure the territory remains vibrant. READ MORE IN THE SPRING 2009 ISSUE OF YUKON, NORTH OF ORDINARY.

Green growth is the way of the future

Caring for people begins with balancing economic growth and environmental concerns, says Ione Christensen, a former politician with a lot of experience looking out for Yukoners.
Christensen was the first female mayor of Whitehorse, in 1975. Four years later, she was the first woman appointed Commissio-
ner of the Yukon. In 1994 she was named as a member of the Order of Canada, and in 1999 she was appointed to the Senate and stayed until 2006, when she resigned.
In her mid-70s, Christensen has seen Whitehorse change from a close-knit town of 750, in the mid-twentieth century, to a thriving capital city of more than 25,000. Now, she’s looking to the future of the territory. READ MORE IN THE SPRING 2009 ISSUE OF YUKON, NORTH OF ORDINARY.

Cover story: Summer fun

By Jessica Simon

A North of Ordinary guide to summer camps for Yukon kids.

Do your children yearn to be adventurers, trick riders or rock stars? This summer they can learn how—at camp!
From elite sports to scrambling in the great outdoors, our guide provides a cross-section of activities for kids plus helpful funding tip. READ MORE IN THE SPRING 2009 ISSUE OF YUKON, NORTH OF ORDINARY.

Queen of the riverfront

By Claire Festel

The former co-owner of the Regina Hotel shares a glimpse of Whitehorse before and after the U.S. Army arrived in the territory, in 1942.

Gudrun “Goody” Sparling leans on her aluminum cane and looks through the picture window of her third-floor condo in White-
horse. She gestures toward the Yukon Legislative Building, on the opposite side of Second Avenue. “I was born right there, across the street. The hospital used to be there,” she says, smiling. “So much has changed.”
Goody was born in 1926 to Kristina and Olof Erickson, the owners of the Regina Hotel at a time when steamboats plied the Yukon River. READ MORE IN THE SPRING 2009 ISSUE OF YUKON, NORTH OF ORDINARY.

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Travel Outside

Outside highlights

Three events to check out in Vancouver, Edmonton, or Calgary.

Saddle up

By Wayne Potoroka

Grab your stetson and head on over to one of the great rodeos in the gateway cities this spring and summer.
When eighteenth-century Spanish and Mexican cattleherders concocted games that honed their cow-punching skills, they couldn’t have foreseen the popularity of their improvised sport three-hundred years later.
From the Australian outback to the high plains of Alberta, rodeos have become the favoured way for bona-fide buckaroos and wrangler wannabes to pass a summer evening. READ MORE IN THE SPRING 2009 ISSUE OF YUKON, NORTH OF ORDINARY.

R & R

The boreal chef: You say ice cream, I say gelato—we all say delicious

Accompany Miche Genest and friends on a delightful dessert-tasting adventure.
The Yukon spring is a puzzler for the cook in search of indigenous ingredients. New leaves, flowers and berries are a long way off. Moose stews and salmon chowders seem so heavy and wintery when the cottonwood buds release their fragrance, the swans sweep overhead and the sky fills with a delicious new light.
We need something exciting and zingy to match our mood: Ice cream! Gelato! Inspired, I collected some intriguing local ingredients and brought them home: Aroma Borealis teas, goat ricotta cheese and soapberry jelly from Yukon Wild Things. READ MORE IN THE SPRING 2009 ISSUE OF YUKON, NORTH OF ORDINARY.

Of note: Singing from the heart

Brenda Barnes meets the men who made it possible for children along the North Klondike Highway to make music.
As the North Klondike Highway winds its way north from White-
horse, it parallels the Yukon River. The road climbs in and out of valleys and onto plateaus. It passes through Carmacks, Pelly Crossing and Stewart Crossing, and the traditional territories of the Ta’an Kwäch’än, Little Salmon/Carmacks, Selkirk, Kwanlin Dün, Na-Cho Nyak Dun and Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in First Nations.
Aboriginal people travelled, hunted and fished in this forbidding landscape for millenia before the roadway was finished, in the 1950s. In some ways, life along the North Klondike Highway remains as isolated now as it was for the inhabitants who lived in the region long ago, but a few people are trying to change that. READ MORE IN THE SPRING 2009 ISSUE OF YUKON, NORTH OF ORDINARY.

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Don Quixote dreamt here

Discover a little bit more about the evolution of wind energy in the Yukon. READ MORE IN THE SPRING 2009 ISSUE OF YUKON, NORTH OF ORDINARY.

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