and the rivers all run god knows where; there are lives that are erring and aimless, and deaths that just hang by a hair; There are hardships that nobody reckons; There are valleys unpeopled and still; There's a land - oh, it beckons and beckons, And I want to go back and I will. From The Spell of the Yukon by Robert Service
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The official Seal of the City of Whitehorse,as seen in title graphic,is on a blue background makes
up the City of Whitehorse flag.
The white horse in the centre of the seal, the city’s namesake, came from the Klondike Gold
Rush era. Stampeders heading along the river towards Dawson City compared the
white-capped waves of the rapids near Miles Canyon to the manes of white horses galloping by.
The steam locomotive to the left marks the importance of Whitehorse as the last stop for the
narrow gauge Whitepass and Yukon Route Railway built at the beginning of 1900 to carry
miners and equipment towards the Klondike gold fields.
The sternwheeler at the bottom represents one of over 250 steam paddleboats that made their
way up the Yukon River between Whitehorse and the mine fields of Dawson and Mayo.
The airplane overhead reminds us of the days of the bush pilots who helped open up vast areas
of the territory and provided an important link to the “outside”. Whitehorse served as a base for
such men as Grant McConachie whose fledgling airline in the north grew into Canadian Pacific
Airlines, now simply Canadian Airlines.
The vehicle on the right is travelling one of the many twists and turns of the famed Alaska
Highway built by the American Army to serve as a supply line to the state of Alaska during the
early stages of the Second World War and which today brings trucked goods and visitors in ever
increasing numbers.
THE CREST
Crest (Background Shield)
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