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Annual composite ranking of Canadian municipalities on economy, housing, crime, health, and weather.
2 editions · 2015–2017
#27
Latest · 2017 · of 417
Yukon
Whitehorse
Rapids, gold, and the Alaska Highway
Whitehorse in brief
Whitehorse is Yukon's capital and the largest city in Northern Canada, sitting on both banks of the Yukon River at Historic Mile 918 of the Alaska Highway. First Nations used Canyon City and the Miles Canyon portage for thousands of years before the Klondike gold strike of 1896 exploded the trail town overnight.
The name recalls White Horse Rapids, whose foam looked like a horse's mane. Incorporation came in 1950. Today you can still find log apartment towers downtown, a DC-3 weathervane at the airport, and a full woolly mammoth cast at the Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre.
Drawn from Wikipedia, Atlas Obscura, Atlas Obscura, Atlas Obscura.
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Worth knowing in Whitehorse
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Whitehorse is the capital of Yukon, and the largest city in Northern Canada.
It was incorporated in 1950 and is located at kilometre 1426 on the Alaska Highway in southern Yukon.
Whitehorse's downtown and Riverdale areas occupy both shores of the Yukon River, which rises in British Columbia and meets the Bering Sea in Alaska.
The city was named after the White Horse Rapids for their resemblance to the mane of a white horse.
Places to see
Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre
Home to a full cast of the largest woolly mammoth ever recovered in North America, plus Ice Age Yukon exhibits.
The World's Largest Weathervane, a DC-3
A decommissioned DC-3 airplane mounted at Whitehorse airport forever points into the oncoming wind.
Log Skyscrapers of Whitehorse
Multi-storey log apartment buildings mark where frontier timber construction met big-city vertical living.