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Yukon Archives

The Yukon Archives acquires, preserves, and provides access to the Yukon's documentary heritage. 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.

What's New

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Yukon Archives website now available in French

Yukon Archives is pleased to announce the availability of its website in French. To view the French or English version of the website, simply select “Français” or “English” in the top right corner of its webpages. It is hoped that its presence will be of benefit to our French speaking users.

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Yukon Archives marks milestone with a book

Yukon Archives is celebrating its 40th anniversary with the publication of a commemorative book, For the Record: Yukon Archives 1972-2012.

Yukon Archives was established in 1972 after former Commissioner Jim Smith identified the need for a territorial archives. Smith is also a longtime member of Friends of the Yukon Archives Society, which sponsored the book.

Free copies of For the Record are available at Yukon Archives, the Whitehorse Public Library and in communities through the public libraries network. Yukon residents outside Whitehorse may contact 1-800-661-0408, extension 5321 or email to have a copy mailed to them.

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E.J. Hamacher: A Photographer’s Perspective

Back by popular demand! This exhibit was created in 2005 by local Whitehorse photographer Mario Villeneuve to document and place E.J. Hamacher’s work within the context of the history of photography in the early 1900s, from technological developments to the evolution of photography as an art form. It is being re-exhibited due to enduring interest in the photography of E.J. Hamacher by the public.

May 4 - July 27, 2012
Tuesday to Friday: 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Saturday: 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Hougen Heritage Gallery, Arts Underground
305 Main Street, Whitehorse

Presented by Friends of the Yukon Archives Society.

Studio portrait of theatrical group.
Yukon Archives, E.J. Hamacher fonds (Margaret and Rolf Hougen collection), 2002/118 #755.

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Yukon Archives Descriptive Database

New information is regularly added to this online guide of archival holdings. Some of the latest additions include descriptions and images for photographs taken in Whitehorse and Teslin in the 1940s and 1950s:

Charles Stubbings fonds
Consists of photographs taken while Charles Stubbings was stationed with the Royal Canadian Air Force in Teslin, 1943-1946.

Edward Walker fonds
Includes views of the airport, downtown, Yukon River and scenery in Whitehorse, 1946-1950.

Murray Watson fonds
Consists of slides documenting the construction and official opening of the Nisutlin Bay Bridge in Teslin, 1953-1956.

RCMP officer Corporal Jim Vincent with local Teslin Cub Scout pack at Nisutlin Bay Bridge opening, May 10, 1956.
Yukon Archives, Murray Watson fonds, 90/32 #6.

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Many Voices: Music in the Yukon 1896–1996

An exhibition of photographs and other delights from the Yukon Archives.
On Exhibit at Yukon Archives
March 1 – September 30, 2012

A summer evening in Dawson City, circa 1898.
Yukon Archives, Gillis family fonds, #4491.

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Bibliographies Now Available Online

Five bibliographies have been added to our finding aids section:

Hydrocarbon Development, A Yukon Perspective (1986 ed.), Hydrocarbon Development, A Yukon Perspective (1988 ed.) and Beaufort Region Bibliography, A Yukon Perspective (1994 ed.) bibliographies provide greater accessibility to the vast amount of published information relating to northern hydrocarbon development.

Our Yukon Land Claims Bibliography lists the many documents held by the Yukon Archives Library associated with the negotiations. It provides a listing of titles produced by Yukon Native Brotherhood, Council for Yukon Indians, Council of Yukon First Nations, and the federal & territorial governments in addition to an inventory of agreements and annual reports.

The Yukon Residential Schools Bibliography lists sources of information available at the Yukon Archives that pertain to Yukon day/residential schools and hostels. The bibliography is a selective listing of archival and published information, with a section committed to photographs.

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