Dawson City, Canada Travel Blogs

Goodbye Alaska - Hello Canada!
Jun 26, 2006 (8 photos)

... to get a good view of the town that kind of thing. Dean: As mentioned above, today (Sunday) we travelled over to Dawson City in Canada. We went through a number of places on the way over here but the best place was Chicken, which has a population of ...

Quiet Day In Paradise
Jul 28, 2008 (22 photos)

... photographs of the area, particularly of wildlife, makes jewellery from raw gold nuggets she buys directly from miners. It is a very interesting store and personality. I have attached a few more photographs of some other buildings found in Dawson City.

To Dawson City & Whitehorse
Jun 19, 2008 (16 photos)

... feeling is movie set. Our cabbie, easily mistaken for Dane Cook and the only official cabbie in Dawson City, filled in lots of blanks. Drunkest city in Canada, midnight golf tournament on the solstice (day after we were there), sunset 12:05 am, sunrise 2: ...

Happy Birthday
Jul 30, 2008 (12 photos)

Today was my wife's birthday so we all went out for a very nice meal at one of the finest restaurants in Dawson City. We then went out to watch a live show with young people playing violins, guitar, singing and dancing in the Palace Grand Theatre. A lot ...

Life in Dawson
Aug 5, 2007 (20 photos)

... Benedictine's will not turn anyone way. While Antoinette may not take in everyone she meets, she embodies the spirit Benedict. Dawson City, especially Antoinette, swept me into its dusty arms and gave me the rest and nurturing I didn't know I needed ...

As Far North As We're Gonna Get
Aug 20, 2005 (19 photos)

(I guess I'm the only one writing these days...Karin) We drove the Klondike highway, approximately 500km north to Dawson City. We stopped to view the infamous Five Finger Rapids on the Yukon River that old-time steamwheeler boats had to carefully ...

Dawson City, Yukon, Canada
Jul 21, 2009 (17 photos)

Tuesday, July 21 - Dawson City, Yukon, Canada - Day 3 This morning, the Gulfstreamers were scheduled to tour the Dänojà Zho (Long Ago House) Cultural Centre, but with Art still not feeling well, and me, having had enough of the history lessons, we opted out. ...

Gold Rush RV Park
Jul 21, 2008 (12 photos)

We check out the town and went to the dome and Diamond Tooth Gerties Casino Repaired our equipment and got ready for the next leg of or trip which is load up on a ferry for a ride across the Yukon River and over Top of the world Highway which is gravel. ...

Dawson City, Yukon, Canada
Jul 19, 2009 (5 photos)

... .  I am proud to say that I merely snapped a picture of them instead of purchasing one to gobble down. After arriving in Dawson City, Art and I drove into town.  Today was the last day of their music festival and we didn't want to miss that.  ...

Die coolste Stadt der Welt.
Oct 10, 2009

Auf jeden!

Dawson City
Jun 16, 2008 (8 photos)

Frühere Goldgräberstadt am Klondike

Dempster Highway - The Essentials
Sep 23, 2007 (18 photos)

... ; junction of the Dempster and  Klondike (No.2) Highways.. This intersection is located 23 km south of Dawson City. Information paneles, located near Mile 0, indicate that the highway is patrolled by the Northwest Territories Highways Department. ...

Happy Day As I Arrive in Dawson City
Jul 25, 2008 (41 photos)

... dining room business. And the food was excellent. I then turned North onto Highway 2, known as the Klondike Highway towards Dawson City. After a few minutes I came upon this rather odd looking building. Is it a Martian home, a 1960's modernistic design, ...

A Third Chance: This One I Could Not Refuse
Sep 23, 2007 (2 photos)

... A Third Chance: This one I Could Not Refuse That last sentence from Blog 40 must have remained in my subconscious. Once I got to Dawson City, I kept glancing at the map to focus on that narrow line that wound its way 700 km north from Dawson City to ...

Kinko's Are Bastards
Jul 14, 2003

... thanks to those money-grubbing Kinko bastards so here is a bonus entry to keep you all entertained. I've just arrived in Dawson City where I'll spend a couple of days before attempting to head up the Dempster Highway to the Arctic Circle and beyond. ...

I Am A Cheechako
Jul 16, 2003 (8 photos)

... of the Alaska Range where the snow looked pink because of the setting sun. Monday, July 14th - Latitude: 64 degrees North Dawson City, Yukon At Delta Junction the Richardson turns into the Alaska Highway. I was back on it. I could only get away ...

Dawson City, Yukon, Canada
Jul 22, 2009 (6 photos)

Wednesday, July 22 - Dawson City, Yukon, Canada - Day 4 I'm writing this blog at 1:30 in the afternoon because I don't foresee anything exciting happening for the rest of the day.  I think we're all ready to move on. The men prepared breakfast this ...

Visite à Dawson city dispendieuse/expensive Dawson
Jul 23, 2007 (2 photos)

... . Si le temps le permet je jouerai au golf sur le top of the world golf course. Au plaisir Hi folks. Finally in Dawson City where it is beautifull and warm. We arrived this afternoon but not without hickup. A stone cracked my windshield and another broke ...

Another Day at the Office
Sep 26, 2007 (18 photos)

Have you read: Blog 62 - September 25, 2007 Dawson City, Yukon, Canada Dawson City - The Han - "People of the River" - due to an error in dates, this blog was misfiled ------------------------------------------------------------ ...

A Day of Rest ????
Jul 26, 2008 (31 photos)

Today was a day of getting prepared for deciding what "chores" my daughter would like me to do over the next week. So we made a list of things to do, then a shopping list. And of we went to the local version of 'Home Depot" and surprisingly we found ...

Garbage and Great Food
Jul 31, 2008 (7 photos)

... trim as well as re-caulking the bathtub. Not very exciting stuff, but work needed. Sara and I made a trip to the famous Dawson City Dump. It is amazingly organized with a map at the entrance to direct you to the "circle" where you are expected to drop ...

WIfe, Bear, Geocaching and Oil
Jul 29, 2008 (18 photos)

... Whitehorse. There is a unique arrangement in Whitehorse; the Air Canada plane from Vancouver arrives a few minutes AFTER the plane for Dawson City leaves, so it is necessary to spend the night in Whitehorse. So at 8:15 this morning we all met Helen at ...

Dawson City, Yukon, Canada
Jul 20, 2009 (78 photos)

... 15 minutes before departure, he decided to get dressed and make a valiant effort to grin and bear it. We traveled to Dawson City, about 5 minutes away, to tour the museum.  The museum exhibits show the history and culture of the Tr'ondek ...

Dawson City
Jun 18, 2008 (51 photos)

... komischen Kauz, er war 15 Jahre mit dem Rad unterwegs. Ihr seht der Yukon scheint diese Art Mensch foermlich anzuziehen. Dawson City gefaellt mir gut, ich sollte schauen dass ich langsam weiterkomme sonst bleib ich noch hier haengen. Ist ein richtig ...

Project Projects Projects
Jul 27, 2008 (10 photos)

Today was a very early start as I set my alarm to wake me at 8:15 am, but I set it to the time zone in Ottawa, so I was actually up at 6:15 and went for a shower. Only after I came into the kitchen and saw the clock on the stove did I realize my error. ...

Dawson City - The Han - "People of the River"
Sep 25, 2007 (4 photos)

... continual erosion. By 1932, the Han considered themselves to be residents of only two remaining areas: Moosehide near Dawson City and Eagle, Alaska. In 1957, the maintaining of a separate school at Moosehide was considered too expensive which ...

Dawson City and the Klondike Gold Rush
Sep 22, 2007 (61 photos)

... in the business of entertaining the sourdoughs. To say that they led interesting and convoluted lives would be an understatement. Another Dawson City classic is the Downtown Hotel which is the home of the famous Sourdough Saloon. Why is it famous? It ...

Tok to Dawson City, Yukon via Top of the World Hwy
Jul 17, 2008 (50 photos)

... two for one deal. Again, the sourdough pancakes were great with tons of butter and warm maple syrup. After this, we took off for Dawson City, Yukon. This meant that we would leave Alaska after over a month of fun here. Of all the things I planned to do, ...

Swiss Day and Sourtoe
Aug 1, 2008 (3 photos)

There is a gentleman in Dawson City who manages the local "home depot", and is the local coroner, is a trained baker and is Swiss. So every year he holds a party at his house to celebrate Swiss Day. It was a great time meeting local people and enjoying a ...

Alles wieder zurück nach Dawson City
Jun 21, 2008

Wieder zurück in unserer Lieblings-Stadt