Category: History

For the past 31 years, I’ve wondered what was down a road that leaves the Alaska Highway at Km 1633.7, just west of Boutillier Summit. On September 7th we drove 6.3 km of it, and I know enough about it now to plan a further exploration, probably on the...

The number of historic mining sites in the Whitehorse Copper Belt is quite astonishing when you have a guide like Tim Green who is a fount of knowledge about it, and loves sharing what he has discovered. On Sunday we spent 4 hours in a very small part of...

On Thursday (August 5th), I drove to Teslin and back to have a look at the George Johnston Museum and to meet a staff member I’d been talking to online, and the director. Part of my reason for going was the firm up a basic template for showing each...

As we were descending into Whitehorse on our Air North flight last Wednesday, I could see that much of the flooding that stopped me on my e-bike ride on June 10th had receded, so I decided to give it another try on July 30th. I’m using 2 apps on...

In my wanders around Vancouver last week, I came across a memorial to the victims of the Indian residential school system. It was initially created by First Nations artist Tamara Bell with 215 pairs of children’s shoes (see this CTV article), but it appears to have become less an...

On Sunday (June 13th), I decided to try a road/trail that has intrigued me for many years. I knew it wouldn’t be an easy ride, but it was tougher than I expected. In a total time of 3 hours, 19 minutes, I rode 33.7 km (20.9 mi), and climbed...

Yesterday, I tried to get to the Cowley Lakes for the third time in a month, but after a lot of mud and water got stopped by a lengthy stretch of thigh-deep water on the trail. It ended up as a 34-km ride, on the WWII Canol pipeline road,...

Yesterday, I went out on a major exploration again, on the route I started to ride on May 13th, along the WWII Canol pipeline road. My goal was again to reach the Cowley Lakes where the White Pass & Yukon Route rail line crosses them. Cathy joined me this...

Having gotten comfortable with my new e-bike on paved roads, I’ve been anxious to get it out on some of the backroads and trails I bought it for. Although there is still a lot of snow in my yard, I decided on Thursday to give a historic road right...

As the weather gets warmer and the snow keeps falling, I have a whole lot of projects going on. The rebuild of my blog is coming along well – I have 179 posted so far. This is post number 1,229 since I started the blog on April 25, 2006,...