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Warrick Ivan Lowe fonds

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  • Fonds
  • Copied 1995 (originally created 1958-1959)

The fonds consists of photographs of Warrick Ivan Lowe during his employment as engineer of the Whitehorse dam from 1958 to 1959. Images of Whitehorse include White Pass and Yukon Route (WP&YR), MacBride Museum, Old Log Church, Sam McGee's cabin, three-storey log house, sternwheeler, the Lowe home on Jarvis Street, and construction of the dam. Also included are scenes of Carcross, Dawson City, and Haines Junction, Lowe's wife, June, and their children, and various people.

Lowe, Warrick Ivan, 1931-

Whitehorse Boys and Girls Club fonds

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  • Fonds
  • 1976-1979

The fonds consists of the business records of the organization, publications and annual reports of the Whitehorse Boys and Girls Club in the Yukon. The business records include the constitution, minutes of board meetings and annual general meetings, project evaluation reports and director's reports. The publications include pamphlets that present personnel policies, available counselling to members, message to parents, 1978 summer day program and evaluation and volunteer policies. The annual reports are for the years 1976-1978.

Whitehorse Boys and Girls Club

Whitehorse Cross Country Ski Club Society fonds

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  • Fonds
  • 1980-1982

This fonds consists of papers, photographs and plans related to the design and construction of the ski chalet in Whitehorse, Yukon.

Whitehorse Cross Country Ski Club Society

Whitehorse Inn Cafe Menu collection

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  • Collection
  • Copied 1981 (originally created [ca. 1955])

The collection consists of photographs of the pages of a Whitehorse Inn Cafe menu from the 1950s. Miles Canyon is featured on the front of the menu, and a map of the Alaska Highway is on the inside.

Whitehorse Inn Cafe

Whitehorse Jaycees fonds

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  • Fonds
  • 1951-1983

The fonds includes correspondence, constitutions, policy and procedures, financial records, newsletters, and program and project reports generated by the Whitehorse Jaycees (1951-1983), Whitehorse Jaycettes (1968-1978) and Gold Nugget Jaycees (1978-1980). It also contains organizational ephemera such as buttons, pins and guest books. The fonds is arranged into the following series: Whitehorse Jaycees; Whitehorse Jaycettes; Gold Nugget Jaycees; Photographs; Maps; Sound Recordings; Poster

Whitehorse Jaycees

Whitehorse Star Ltd. fonds

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  • Fonds
  • 1900-1979

The fonds consists of photographs, textual material, newspapers, a variety of published items and two maps. The photographs in this fonds cover a time period of ca. 1959-1975 and were donated in three accessions. The first accession, 82/527, consists of 8,797 negatives. The second accession, 82/563, consists of 19,620 negatives and 11,044 of black and white prints. The photographs include a wide variety of views of newsworthy events in Whitehorse, and in the Yukon generally. Many of the major news items of this period are represented - such as visits by Pierre Trudeau and Governor-General Michener, the climbing of Mt. Kennedy by American Senator Robert Kennedy, the opening of the Skagway Road and Dempster Highway, the removal of the last shack on Whiskey Flats, and the restoration of the S.S. Klondike. As well, there are also numerous photographs of local events, activities, buildings, sports and people, including Whitehorse and other Yukon residents, personalities and politicians. A third accession, 82/419, consists of two black and white photographs of Patsy Henderson and his wife dressed in First Nations ceremonial costume in front of the White Pass and Yukon Route (WP&YR) railway station at Carcross. The newspapers include 187 bound copies plus loose issues of the Whitehorse Star from 1901 to present. The fonds also contains textual materials comprised of newspaper clippings, typescript and handwritten articles, correspondence and miscellaneous information that originally accompanied some of the photographs. There are two maps. One, copied by Department of Public Works in 1966 from a 1925 map, depicts the receding ice front at Tarr Inlet. The second map is a 1967 topographical survey map of Steele Glacier produced for the Yukon Alpine Centennial Expedition. Accession 2001/01 consists of eleven boxes of research files transferred to the Yukon Archives by Chuck Tobin, Local News reporter for the Whitehorse Star. This accession is unprocessed.

Whitehorse Star Ltd.

Whitney and Pedlar fonds

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  • Fonds
  • Microfilmed 1985 (originally created 1906-1924)

The fonds consists of account ledgers for the firm of Whitney and Pedlar, Whitehorse, Yukon, 1906-1924. The first ledger is accounts receivable, 1906-1911. The second ledger is accounts payable for 1912-1924. Both ledgers include an alphabetical index. The ledgers include accounts of Whitney and Pedlar branch stores, accounts with various banks and with individuals.

Whitney and Pedlar

Wilkinson family fonds

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  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1860]-1982

The fonds includes photographs, textual records and films primarily generated by the Wilkinson family, however, there are some records from the Porterfield and Thompson families. The textual records include correspondence between members of the Wilkinson family and their friends; journals kept by the Wilkinsons; and poetry, primarily by J.C. Wilkinson. There is also a photocopied map that indicates Jared's trapline along the Pelly River. The photographs, largely taken by Jared and Eddie Wilkinson, depict the Wilkinson's life at Fort Selkirk, Plateau Mountain, Pelly Crossing, and Lansing from 1915 to 1980. They include views of communities, rivers, lakes, trapping, fishing, farming, hunting, wilderness areas, and people throughout the Yukon. The films, taken by Jared and Edwin Wilkinson, document the hunting, fishing, and trapping activities of the Wilkinson family during their years spent at Pelly Crossing, 1954-1958; the Wilkinsons' years at Edgewood, B.C.; and at Pelly Crossing, Lansing, and Whitehorse, 1958-1977.

Wilkinson family

William A. Geddes fonds

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  • Fonds
  • Copied 1977 (originally created [ca.1920-1943])

This fonds consists of copies of photographs which mainly depict Anglican Church activities and clergy throughout the Yukon. Subjects include churches, mission schools, hostels, First Nations people, children, events and activities at Carcross, Dawson City, Mayo, Moosehide, Old Crow and Whitehorse, as well as a number of individuals, many of whom are identified and listed in the inventory.

Geddes, William A.

William A. Moffat fonds

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  • Fonds
  • Copied before 1987 (originally created 1898-1900)

The fonds consists of copies of papers relating to the death of Alexander F. Moffat, as applied for by his brother William. Included are William Moffat's application to the Renfrew Surrogate Court in Ontario for Letters of Administration of his brother's estate, and Deeds of Renunciation completed by the remainder of Alexander F. Moffat's surviving immediate family. Included also is the report completed by Corporal G.M. Skirving of the North West Mounted Police (NWMP) who was sent from Dawson City, Yukon to the Porcupine and Peel rivers in search of information respecting the Moffat party; and a typed copy of the last letter Alexander (Roy) Moffat wrote, addressed to other members of his travelling party.

Moffat, William A., 1874?-1951?

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