Noon walk with my camera – not the usual iPhone shots!

I love the old curling paint layers on this old building.

The old Court House Building built in 1902. Designed by Thomas W. Fuller who also designed the building the museum is in, the telegraph office, the old post office, and the Commissioner’s House. Basically all the biggest, oldest, most awesome buildings in town.

The RCMP (our police) complex.

The Commissioner’s House. Partially rebuilt/restored and open during tourist season. Really impressive inside.

St. Paul’s Anglican Church. Opened in 1902.

The Yukon Hotel. Built in 1898! The Front Street Inn (now apartments) on the left. Both built out of logs.

Snowmobiler heading across the open area up to the dyke.

Snowmobile pulling a smaller snowmobile on the far side of the river.

With such a white landscape, our pretty buildings on Front Street really stand out!

The snowmobile club (The Sled Dawgs) have a new groomer! Today they put in the ice road!! The river is obviously not frozen, so the road doesn’t go straight across. Instead it goes here along the river on the frozen river bed (river is really low), and then crosses up river (south end of town) where the river is frozen, and back up along the far side of the river.

Jimmy’s Place – our movie rental store!

A jewellery and art shop in the summer – lots of gold and mammoth locally made items.

From the left: The Dancing Moose (gifts and clothes and art), Maximillion’s Book Store (books, magazines, gifts, cards), the Riverwest coffee shop (only open in the summer), and the Trading Post (outdoor gear, mining supplies, army surplus).

The General Store – our bigger of the two grocery stores. Once it gets to -20C, most people leave their vehicles running while they shop.

The Klondike Nugget and Ivory jewellery store. Established in 1904! Really nice gold nugget jewellery, mammoth ivory jewellery. (Is that really how you spell jewellery? It is starting to look weird.) Open year round. Uta has two the world’s cutest (and quietest) dogs that often sleep behind the counter 😃

This plaque is on the old CIBC building on the waterfront that may be restored some year soon. It says: “Robert W. Service 1874 – 1958 Poet and author, whose writing spread the fame of the Yukon, was a teller at this branch in 1908 and 1909. His first poems, including “The Shooting of Dan McGrew”, were written at our branch at Whitehorse.

S.S. Keno

The Flora Dora Hotel

Another seasonal jewellery shop. Our biggest industries are gold mining and tourism. Jewellery is a neat way to merge the two, giving our visitors a way to bring home a piece of the Klondike.

The Monte Carlo is a big beautiful gift store, and also has our office supplies, paper, printer ink. At the back of the store you can browse new appliances for sale. Only place in town I can think of where you can buy a fridge or washing machine, except for the Sears catalogue counter.

The Northwest Territories visitors centre. Open in tourist season with information about the Dempster highway conditions, encouraging tourists to travel to our neighbouring territory. This building is old too. Built in 1900 and once housed the British Yukon Navigation Company Ticket Office.

Our big Visitor’s Information Centre. Open just seasonally, but also used for other important things, like Gingerbread House judging/voting, and it is race headquarters during the Yukon Quest (dog sled race). This is an old log building that once housed the Alaska Commercial Company if memory serves right.

A view across a few open lots to the hardware store. Also the laundrymat and recycling depot.

Here’s the infamous Palace Grand Theatre that I have yet to be in because it has been under repair for the last couple of years. The original building was taken apart and rebuilt with most of the original timbers that were from some of the old steam river boats. It was originally built by Arizona Charlie Meadows in 1899. It’s a famous old dance house and theatre with private boxes. Also said to be haunted, like many buildings here. Here’s a short little documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3r6lisp6DcU

Back door of the old Post Office

The old post office. Also designed by Fuller. Used only for a few years because it was so big and impossible to heat. Restored and open for tourists in the summer.

Mme. Tremblay’s Store. Built in 1899.

Klondike Kate’s – restaurant and cabins. Seasonal. (Order the ‘Chicken Little’ and you won’t regret it). All for sale, an entire block of town, for $1.6 million.

One of the busiest places in town – the Post Office. Also houses the town’s main bulletin boards for events, jobs, and real estate. We have no door to door delivery so it’s a busy, social place.

Neat old building. I know nothing about it. I suspect it was a hardware store 😉

Frosty door latch on the old Dawson Daily News building.

A view of Diamond Tooth Gertie’s Casino and Dance Hall across an open lot. The arena and curling rink are to the left of Gertie’s.

The Yukon College and the Yukon School of Visual Arts share an old refurbished building.

The Midnight Sun Hotel. Closed and for sale! Used to be open seasonally with a hotel and restaurant but has been boarded up since before we moved here.

A Dawson City landmark, the famous Westminster Hotel aka “The Pit”. Built in 1898, this place has more character and characters than you could ever imagine. Crooked and old, this place is always open and welcoming. So welcoming, it is also where you can get your flu shot in the fall.

I wonder why this building was left. I have to assume it was once between two larger buildings but I have no idea!

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The Eldorado. Hotel, restaurant, tavern. “Gold dust accepted”

Corner of Third and Princess. The Red Feather Saloon was rebuilt to look like the original, inside and out. Open for tourists in the summer, but not a functional saloon. Territorial liquor store is in the same complex though, over in the yellow building on the left. Bombay Peggy’s, the renovated old brothel, is an excellent drinking establishment and hotel, although also closed for winter.

The colourful Westmark hotel. Full all summer with tourists from the Alaskan cruise ship side tours. Some arrive by bus from Whitehorse, others fly in from Fairbanks, Alaska.

Only gas station inside the historical town site. Convenience store and home to the Sears catalogue ordering and pick up counter. Also where I regularly escape to during a break from work to pick up a cold can of ice tea.

Our school. If you look close to can see the guy who cleans our wooden sidewalks. He has a big spinning broom like sweeper than brushes off the snow as he pushes it from behind.