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Spring 2008

Inside

Editor's note

True north hopes and dreams

Letter from Joe Sparling, Air
North's president and CEO

Miscellanea

Your letters

North of Ordinary trivia

Travel Yukon

Going with the flow
River trips for everyone from families to experts

Where are they now?

Catching up with Rose Scrivens and Meghan Hildebrand

Extra! Extra!

Yukon newsmakers

Venture north

Interviews with Well-Read Books, Kanoe People
and Klondike Valley Nursery and Market Garden

Yukon spotlight

The golden rule: Writer-in-residence George K. Ilsley
reflects on Dawson City and his stay at Berton House

The Berton House Writers’ Retreat in Dawson City, housed in
Pierre Berton’s childhood home, has been accommodating
writers-in-residence since 1996. I arrived in October, a time of
transition from the busy tourist season to boarded-up buildings
and winter freeze-up. The population thins, distilling down to the
local essence. There is a sense that the party is over, but also
a feeling of relief. This annual cycle is a small echo of the gold
rush itself.

The ravens have lived here a long time and seen it all before:
people come for one reason or one season, and then move on. READ MORE IN THE SPRING 2008 ISSUE OF YUKON, NORTH OF ORDINARY.

Citysnap calendar

What's going on in Yukon, Vancouver, Edmonton and Calgary.

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Features

Chasin´a dream

When it comes to tackling life-changing diagnoses, this boy is a model for young and old alike. By Leighann Chalykoff

Over the past four years, Chase Hobbis has tirelessly fund-
raised thousands of dollars and in 2006 he lobbied the federal
government for millions more. He's outgoing, he's personable
and he's always got a smile on his face. Does he sound like a
good candidate for the job opening at your office? Well you
might have to wait; Chase just turned 11 years old.

Like many boys his age, Chase has big dreams. Although he
hasn’t decided whether he wants to be a doctor, a lawyer or
play in the NHL when he grows up, Chase knows one thing for
sure—he wants to help eradicate Type 1 diabetes. READ MORE IN THE SPRING 2008 ISSUE OF YUKON, NORTH OF ORDINARY.

Cover Story: There´s no place like home

It’s not unusual to meet Yukoners who’ve built their own dream homes. In fact, it’s part of the Yukon experience.
We go on a tour of four homes that you might be surprised
to find in the Yukon, by Jen Williams

If you ask most locals why they’ve chosen to make the Yukon
their home over other places in the world, they’ll tell you it’s a
lifestyle thing—clean air, backyard access to pristine wilder-
ness, a multitude of ways to earn a living and, most of all, room
to breathe. With a population just over 30,000 spread over a land
mass nearly twice the size of the United Kingdom, there’s more
than enough room here to carve out one’s own little piece of
paradise.

Here, we take you inside four unique homes and introduce you
to the owners, each of whom has come from far away to make
a life in the Yukon. READ MORE IN THE SPRING 2008 ISSUE OF YUKON, NORTH OF ORDINARY.

A farrago of feathers and fleece

Each spring and fall, like clockwork, sheep and cranes
meet in Faro, deep in the heart of the Yukon. By Wayne
Potoroka

This spring, nearly 250,000 lesser sandhill cranes will rise from
their winter homes in Mexico and the southwestern United
States, assemble in V-formations, and point themselves north.

The red-crested and grey-draped birds will follow the same
narrow flyway blazed during the last glacier period, when, bio-
logists speculate, their ancestors found the only ice-free cor-
ridor—along the spiny eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains and
through the lush Tintina Trench—to their nesting grounds north
of 60.

The most travelled among them will fly over 10,000 km from
northern Mexico, across the Bering Strait and into Siberia. The
least travelled will take a moderately shorter trip from the high
plains of Texas to the Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge in
southwestern Alaska, where they’ll hunker down in nests built
in wetlands, the damp, boggy terrain acting as the perfect
protective moat from predators. READ MORE IN THE SPRING 2008 ISSUE OF YUKON, NORTH OF ORDINARY.

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Travel Outside

Outside highlights

Three things to do if you're travelling to Vancouver, Edmonton or Calgary this winter

Never too much fun

There are so many ways to have family fun in the gateway cities. We’ve come up with three amusement parks that you have to visit if you’re travelling to Vancouver, Edmonton or Calgary. By Lily Gontard

R & R

The boreal chef: Sweet Artemisia

Indulging in the fragrance of “pasture sage”. By Miche Genest

Of note: Cashen in the house

Punk and philosophy meet in music. By Brenda Barnes

Air North

Yukon spirit in action
Fleet facts
Our people, our strength—a class of their own
Top transportation-honour for Air North
Yukon oughta be in pictures

p. 70

A day in the life of Larry Bagnell

Since he was elected in 2000, Yukon Member of Parliament Larry Bagnell has never once gone to a movie, play or any social event, for that matter, that wasn’t related to work. How does he decide what meeting to attend and which to ditch? He applies one immutable rule to his daytimer: “I decide on meetings that I think will have the most to do with my constituents.” READ MORE IN THE SPRING 2008 ISSUE OF YUKON, NORTH OF ORDINARY.

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