Yukon Archives
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What's New - Take a look at the latest online exhibit created by the Yukon Archives!
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The Alaska Highway: A Yukon Perspective is a web exhibit covering the complex history of the construction, maintenance and use of the Alaska Highway and the Canol pipeline including information about the Northwest Staging Route and the Alaska Highway today. The stories are told using film footage, sound recordings, textual records and photographs created by the men and women that worked (and occasionally played) on the highway and Canol projects. The exhibit also contains a section that documents the highway’s profound impact on First Nations people, wildlife, the environment and the economy. The exhibit’s design mimics the golden age of comic books, capturing the excitement, the drama and the immensity of this wartime feat. There is also curriculum material in the Learning Resources section geared to the senior secondary level.
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Facilities and Services
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Yukon Archives
Adams and Larkin and
Cantwell Collection # 9124
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The Yukon Archives is located next to the Yukon College at Yukon Place in Whitehorse. The holdings are maintained in a fireproof security vault equipped with smoke detectors plus temperature and humidity control systems. Acid free document boxes,folders and envelopes are utilized as a further preservation measure. The reference and research rooms at the Archives are open to the public from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Tuesday and Wednesday, Thursday 1 to 5 pm, Friday 1 to 9 pm, and 10:00 am to 1:00pm and 2:00pm to 6:00 pm on Saturday.
Photocopy, map and photograph reproduction services are available. The Archives can also order reference material for patrons from other institutions through inter-library loan.
If you are unable to visit the Archives in person, reference assistance is available through correspondence. The Archives also offers periodic lecture series, film showings, displays, radio broadcasts, and newspaper articles on selected topics in Yukon history.
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Acquisitions
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Yukon Archives
Martha Louise Black
Collection # 3244
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The Archives' resources are constantly expanding by means of donation, purchase, copy loan, and the government's records management program. Yukoners are encouraged to deposit business and society records, family papers, diaries, photographs, church and school records, political papers, and other memorabilia in the Archives for permanent preservation. If you know of others who have material relating to the Yukon please bring it to the Archives' attention. In this way we can work together to avoid the unfortunate situation of potential archival sources being lost, destroyed or removed from the Territory.
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Friends of the Yukon Archives Society (FOYAS)
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Friends of the Yukon Archives Society (FOYAS) is a registered non-profit society. Since 1997, FOYAS has worked with Yukon Archives to acquire and preserve the Yukon's documentary heritage. The society is committed to assisting and advising the Archives in its important goal of preserving our past. The FOYAS brochure ( 209KB) provides more details on the mission of purpose of FOYAS and information on membership.
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Hours:
Tuesday and Wednesday
9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Thursday
1:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Friday
1:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Saturday
10:00 am to 1:00 pm and
2:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Sunday and Monday
Closed
Yukon Archives
400 College Drive
Yukon Place (Beside Yukon College)
Tourism and Culture
Government of Yukon
Box 2703
Whitehorse, Yukon
Canada Y1A 2C6
Phone: 867) 667-5321
Toll free (In Yukon): 1-800-661-0408, local 5321
Fax: (867) 393-6253
yukon.archives@gov.yk.ca
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Last Updated 13-06-2006
