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As the world, err, as the wheel turns; Or, How / why SS Klondike, a cargo-carrying sternwheeler river boat briefly used for river cruises, became one of Parks Canada’s 1,004 national historic sites, part 3
Welcome back, my reading friend, and… I know, I know. I pledged several moons ago to strive toward brevity. It is just that this story of SS Klondike, a cargo-carrying sternwheeler river boat, river cruise ship and national historic site, is really quite interesting. And I see you nodding in agreement. Yes, yes, you did. Do not deny it.
In any event, by November 1959, rumours, accurate rumours as it turned out, circulated to the effect that Canada’s Department of Northern Affairs and Natural Resources had agreed to take on responsibility for no less than 4 of the old sternwheeler river boats formerly operated on the Yukon River by British Yukon Navigation Company Limited. Said river boats would become tourist attractions. Indeed, the minister of Northern Affairs and Natural Resources, Francis Alvin George Hamilton, indicated that one of the ships would be restored and turned into a museum, adding that he would be pleased if business interests acquired another vessel for use as cruise ship on the Yukon River, between two municipalities of the Yukon Territory, Whitehorse and Carmacks.
As the risk of sounding impertinent, the protests of the inhabitants of Whiskey Flats, the poor neighbourhood where SS Klondike was scheduled to go, First Nations people in most cases, went utterly unheard when said neighbourhood was taken over by the city of Whitehorse (and the federal government?) between 1962 and 1967 and, to a large extent, bulldozed. Said inhabitants had no choice but to move, or be moved, to parcels of land which were by no means always suitable.
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