tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75231012007499674462024-03-04T23:07:55.103-07:00Dawson City Journal~Three months in the Yukon ~ by Jim MurrayJim Murrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10953235912384977922noreply@blogger.comBlogger62125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7523101200749967446.post-69232748029257785452012-12-30T11:15:00.002-08:002012-12-30T11:15:35.840-08:00Leaving the Yukon<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Leaving Dawson City. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">After three months. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It seemed strange to be leaving after becoming accustomed to the routine of the previous three months. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Our thermometer, at </span><i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Berton House</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">, was at it lowest since our arrival in late September. Officially, Environment Canada reported Dawson City as the coldest inhabited community on the planet at minus 48. Dawson has been cold all week long, and the </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>coldest place on the planet</i> honours have </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">been going back and forth between Dawson and Mayo (also in the Yukon).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Kathy Webster picked us up, just as she did in the beginning, only this time she dropped us off at the airport for our Air North flight to Whitehorse.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Dawson Airport has a small airport, with one <i>gate</i>: Gate 28. It is also not cleared for take offs and landings in the dark, so there was a scramble to get us airborne before the sun slipped away completely. In truth, it looked dark to me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And so it ended. Our three months in the Yukon. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">More is coming as we journey to Buenos Aires for the next three months. You can follow <i>that </i>adventure, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">beginning in early January,</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">and more too, at <a href="mailto:www.murraychronicles.com"><span style="color: yellow;">www.murraychronicles.com</span></a></span><br />
<br />Jim Murrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10953235912384977922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7523101200749967446.post-58231153585428747182012-12-19T17:54:00.000-08:002012-12-19T17:54:03.111-08:00Minus 45<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A good day for a walk-about don't you think? Well maybe not, but I went out anyway, at around sunrise: 11:10. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The town was covered in a thick blanket of ice fog.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The ice fog forms near the ground. The hill to the town's north, or <i>the slide</i>, is getting a wee bit of sun. Visibility in town is limited.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Four hours later, give or take a few minutes, the sun is setting. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The official temperature has warmed to minus forty-four.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">There are festive concerts too, this one on December 16 featuring a variety of acts and sing-a-longs in aid of supporting a school in Belize. We were there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When it is clear, the sun long shadows and lights up the slide to the north of town. The sun is there, and yet it isn't, in our <i>southern </i>way of thinking. Here, on the left, Sherry stands on Seventh Avenue with the slide behind her. On the right, the sun is <i>almost</i> visible behind her.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">For many Canadians, including those of us in much larger communities, having an actual Post Office in town is a rarity. Most of us visit <i>postal outlets</i> located in convenience stores or pharmacies. This is not the case in Dawson City, a community of less than two thousand, where there exists, on Third Avenue, a real Post Office.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Exactly how this came to be, when Canada Post and <i>Our Dear Leader</i> seem intent on selling off or dismantling public government buildings and services, is beyond comprehension. Even this building is apparently <i>rented </i>given ODL's aversion to public edifices. For Dawsonites, the Post Office is a community centre of sorts; a place to meet people (and everyone does) and to share information. Perhaps ODL should look at the benefit such a place has on a community. It seems a small investment for such great a reward. </span><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hARmm9L7ldI/UKVWWLfZtfI/AAAAAAAABUE/BICpf6vGK8k/s1600/IMG_0688.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hARmm9L7ldI/UKVWWLfZtfI/AAAAAAAABUE/BICpf6vGK8k/s1600/IMG_0688.JPG" height="247" width="400" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; text-align: center;">And invitations to dinners, <i>writer's readings </i>(as you can see in the photo above with a poster from the Library for Sherry's <i>reading</i>) community events, and "part of my house is for rent" kind of announcements. The Post Office is a central place; a good one to find in every town. Dawson City is fortunate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I receive some last minute instructions from Gaby. "First: hold on Jim. DO NOT let go Jim. Otherwise YOU will have to chase after the dogs Jim. They will keep running Jim. In fact: they love to run </span><span style="font-size: large;">and pull an empty sled! Hang on for dear life Jim!</span><span style="font-size: large;"> Second: this is the break. Use it to slow down and to stop. But don't let go Jim. The dogs might take off, even with the break in place." <i> Hmmmm....</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Danoja Zho</i> means <i>Long Time Ago House</i> in the language of the Tr'ondek Hwech'in. The centre houses meeting rooms, performance spaces and an interactive gallery. It is normally closed in the winter months, but the friendly staff are happy to open the display area to special visitors, like the writer and her consort.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">and it marks the anniversary of the murders in 1989 of 14 young women at <i>l'Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal</i>. </span></div>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">sixty per cent of the 3 000 women missing or murdered in Canada since 1980 are Aboriginal</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">about half the above have occurred <i>since </i>2000</span></li>
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<br />Jim Murrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10953235912384977922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7523101200749967446.post-16440744662877491552012-11-30T17:04:00.000-08:002012-11-30T17:04:28.209-08:00Ice fog in Dawson City<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Okay. This is great! Now how do I stop this thing?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This house is an example, I believe, of the permafrost thing. As the ground thaws, the house, probably built on frozen ground, shifts. The angle is quite unmistakable. The back end has sunk considerably.</span><br />
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