Magic & mystery, or homogeny?

This was the Red Feather Saloon as I saw it for the first time, on June 20, 1985. This is one of the images from that trip, a whirlwind tour of the Yukon and adjacent areas by small plane, that I love the most – it reminds me of “the magic & mystery” that prompted me to move from Vancouver to the Yukon 5 years later.

It’s a magic that is now rapidly disappearing as old buildings fall down and more and more people move in determined to make the Yukon feel like the place they came from. Newcomers to Whitehorse probably have a hard time imagining that the city used to actually have a unique character.