Letter describing Dawson City veteran's WWII experience donated to local Legion
Gemma McIntyre-Gould recently rediscovered a letter written years ago by her great uncle Bill Gould, where he describes his harrowing experiences as part of the D-Day invasion at Normandy and as a prisoner of war.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/letter-describing-dawson-city-veteran-s-wwii-experience-donated-to-local-legion-9.7140900?cmp=rss

Property taxes going down more than 2% this year in Dawson City
The Yukon community's municipal budget this year also includes a $12.3-million dollar capital expenditure program, the bulk of which will go toward water and sewage upgrades. The capital budget also includes the purchase of a new fire truck.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/reservoirs-decreased-property-taxes-and-a-firetruck-dawson-city-releases-2026-budget-9.7143977?cmp=rss

Yukon Court of Appeal throws out sexual assault conviction of Dawson City man
The Yukon Court of Appeal has thrown out a sexual assault conviction. Leslie Iain Weatherston, a Dawson City resident, was found guilty of one count of sexual assault in September 2024. Weatherston appealed the decision a month after being sentenced. He won his appeal earlier this month and was ordered a new trial.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/yukon-court-sexual-assault-appeal-9.7142402?cmp=rss

Thaw di Gras 2026

It was Dawson City's Thaw di Gras Spring Carnival this past weekend. As always, it was bitterly cold, but sunny! I went out three nights in a row! We kicked off our Thaw di Gras by absolutely freezing nearly to death for 35 minutes in line to get into Gerties for our town's annual Lip Sync competition. Our friend Alex was the Master of Ceremonies for the event! It's a very popular highlight of Thaw di Gras, so even though we got in that line to get in, we still sat nearly at the back, […]

https://lisa.blog/2026/03/23/thaw-di-gras-2026/

Tentative remediation plan outlined for Yukon's Clinton Creek mine
Crown-Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada presented Dawson City residents with a tentative three-year construction project for the former Clinton Creek asbestos mine. Work is planned to begin this summer.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/tentative-remediation-plan-outlined-for-yukon-s-clinton-creek-mine-9.7137029?cmp=rss

Dawson City, Yukon man helps family learn fate of missing son, bringing closure to four-year-long mystery
A Dawson City, Yukon man used an image reversal search to help locate former Yukoner Karl Van Roon after his parents said they lost contact with their son in 2022.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/dawson-city-yukon-man-helps-family-learn-fate-of-missing-son-bringing-closure-to-four-year-long-mystery-9.7131087?cmp=rss

The graders say it is SPRING!

It's totally not spring, it's cold, and windy, and never ending, but it is sunny and the graders are stripping the snow off the streets! I zipped out for some groceries at lunch yesterday but had to turn around and go a long way because Fifth Avenue was getting its snow stripped up! Not only could I not cross, the drop off was well over a foot. The streets are gravel here and not plowed often here in Dawson City. Instead, the snow just packs down into ice and gets thicker and thicker as the […]

https://lisa.blog/2026/03/17/the-graders-say-it-is-spring/

New routes, same spirit: Yukon's Percy DeWolfe Memorial Mail race marks half a century
The event was first held nearly 50 years ago to honour the efforts of Percy DeWolfe, who in the early 1900s carried mail about 300 kilometres between Dawson City, Yukon, and Eagle, Alaska, by dogsled along the Yukon River.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/new-routes-same-spirit-yukon-s-percy-dewolfe-memorial-mail-race-marks-half-a-century-9.7117646?cmp=rss

Researcher recommends caution with potential Dawson City land development due to possible flood risk
Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in First Nation and the Yukon Government signed a memorandum of understanding for a joint master planning process for neighboring parcels of land in Dawson City. The area, next to the Dredge Pond sub-division, has been known to flood in the past.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/dawson-city-development-land-flood-risk-9.7116361?cmp=rss

Armour courtois – a night of medieval jazz!

Tonight, with my friends Janet, and Alex, I attended Amour Courtois: Medieval Meets Jazz at KIAC (Klondike Institute of Art & Culture). Janet and I purposely didn't look up anything about this concert or the musicians ahead of time. We wanted to be surprised! All we knew was that Janet's favourite genres of music are jazz and medieval, so she was pretty sure she was going to have a good time! To start the show, the 3 musicians came out, sat on the edge of the stage, answered questions, and […]

https://lisa.blog/2026/03/04/armour-courtois-a-night-of-medieval-jazz/