November 2018
Winter Spruce Bog Craft Fair
Come do your Christmas shopping at this highly anticipated local craft fair! Don't forget to enter the free draw to have a chance to win one of the five gift baskets!
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Coast Mountain free Ski day
Enjoy free cross country skiing on Mount McIntyre at the cross country ski club. Hot drinks and snacks provided.
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Japanese Film: Her Love Boils Bathwater
“Her Love Boils Bathwater” (2016, by Ryota Nakano. Japanese + English subtitles. PG. 125 min.) Futaba was diagnosed with cancer and was told that she had a few months to live. She decides to find her estranged husband and bring him back, revive her family’s public bath house, encourage her daughter to overcome bullying, and adopts her husband’s daughter. This film shows that a family can take many forms. The public bath setting shows a traditional side of the current…
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Fair Vote Yukon Open House
Join us for Fair Vote Yukon's informal information sharing event with focus on the government's survey on Electoral Reform! Bring your devices! Let's do the survey together! Refreshments will be served. And you can vote for your favourite fruit in the Yukon Wide Fruit Election.
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November 2018
Watson Lake Annual Craft Fair
Goodies for everyone. Get your Christmas shopping done early!
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2018 Cranberry Fair
Each November in Whitehorse the Cranberry Fair invites the world to one of the most exclusive Christmas Sale Events. On this day artists and fine crafts people convene from all over the Yukon to present their unique, diverse, and high quality skills and talents to a broad variety of expectant visitors. On this day over 2000 visitors gather to experience the Yukon’s outstanding arts and crafts culture and to use the opportunity of meeting, talking and getting to know more…
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Celebrating 30th Anniversary of Redress
In early 1942, Canadian government invoked the War Measures Act. “All persons of Japanese origin” were labelled “enemy aliens”. Approximately 23,000 Japanese Canadians (75% of them were Canadian citizens) were stripped of all civil rights; their boats, farms, businesses, and houses were confiscated. They were sent to the Internment camps, to the sugar beet farms in Manitoba, to road camps, or even to prisoner-of-war camps; often families were separated. They were not allowed to return to the west coast until…
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December 2018
Jazz on the Wing
Guitarist Sheryl Bailey Trio from New York City 7:30pm at Yukon Arts centre Tickets available at yukontickets.com and Yukon Arts centre Box Office
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Jazz in the Hall
The Winter trio. Tickets $7 at the door and free to ages 19 and under.
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12 Days of Christmas Fireweed Community Market
The 12 Days of Christmas Fireweed Community Market offers a festive, indoor experience for farm-gate style production and consumption of a wide selection of hand crafted, Yukon made items. From more than 80 vendors, leisurely shop for that special gift. Find unique art and crafts, specialty foods, preserves, spices, baked goods, body products, and much more. Please check the website for hours. Follow us on social media for exciting updates: Facebook Twitter Instagram For more info click here.
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Winterval and the Santa Claus Parade!
The 10th annual Winterval Santa Parade will warm up Main Street, bring MAGIC to the winter and give a kick-start to the Holiday Season! PARADE Come as a group with friends, family, or colleagues! Dress to be festive, pull out your best holiday costume, make a parade float, bring lanterns or musical instruments! WATERFRONT ARTS FESTIVAL Free Art Workshops, Fire Pits and Marshmallows, Treats and Snacks, and LOTS OF SURPRISES! … Bring homemade coloured ice cubes to participate in a…
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The Night before Christmas
'twas the night before christmas
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Santa Land & City Lights Tour
Details for this event are to be confirmed.
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New Year’s Eve at Canada Games Centre
Join us on December 31 at the Canada Games Centre from 4 - 6 pm for free skating, swimming and facilitated games. Come to Shipyards Park from 6 - 8 pm for bonfires, music, skating, sledding and hot chocolate with fireworks at 8 pm. All free!
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New Year’s Eve
At Shipyards Park, Carnival, games, live music, fireworks and snacks.
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January 2019
Carbon Hill Sled Dog & Skijor Race
The Carbon Hill Sled Dog and Skijor Race is a fun and friendly community-spirited event based out of the Mt. Lorne Community Centre on the Annie Lake Road. With participants ranging from recreational and rookie mushers to seasoned Quest veterans, The Carbon Hill is developing a reputation as “The biggest little race in Yukon.” The January start date makes Carbon Hill the inaugural race kicking off Yukon’s mushing and skijor season. This range of race classes means there is something…
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January 2019
Alcan 200 International Snow Machine Rally
Starts on the US side of the border on the Haines Highway to Dezadeash Lake and return.
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Policeman’s Ball & Chamber Gala
For more information on this annual event, contact Cheryl 867 336 1011
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Men’s Hockey Tourney
Kick off the year with this exciting hockey tournament! Great hockey, food, beer, and the best party town in the North! The Dawson City Men's Hockey Tournament invites teams from all over the North to challenge for the DCHA Hockey Championship Trophy. For more information to register your team, please click here.
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(s)hiver winter arts festival
The (s)hiver winter arts festival, now in its fifth year, presents almost a full weekend of art, performance, music, and awesomeness this January 25 to 26 in Dawson City. Workshops a'plenty and the cold and dark is bound to be cold and dark.
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January 2019
Free Musher Rides
Come on down to Shipyards Park from 11 am to 3pm for free sled dog rides with the Mushers.
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Jazz on the Wing – Haines Junction
Trilogy from Vancouver Ticket prices: $20 adults/$10 youth and seniors, free for ages 12 and under. Tickets at the door or reserve by email hainesjunctionjam@gmail.com
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Jazz on the Wing
Trilogy from Vancouver Tickets available at yukontickets.com and Yukon Arts Centre Box office.
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Quest Fest
Quest Fest events on at the old Firehall in the lead up to the Yukon Quest. January 28th until February 2nd.
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Start and Draw Banquet
$85 per ticket for the Start and Draw Banquet at the Yukon Convention Centre on January 31st.
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Air North Challenge
A month long event to challenge participants to ski the whole trail system at Whitehorse Nordic Center. Air travel draw prizes. xcskiwhitehorse.ca
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February 2019
Available Light Film Festival
Canada’s largest film festival north of 60°, ALFF is a multi-day film festival that showcases international and Canadian films, feature documentaries, panel discussions, workshops, and more. yukonfilmsociety.com
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Yukon Quest Race Start
Don't miss the excitement and watch all the team gather and start their epic journey from Whitehorse, Yukon to Fairbanks, Alaska. Starts at 11 am in Shipyards park. For more details check http://yukonquest.com/
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Yukon Arctic Ultra
The Yukon Arctic Ultra is one of the world’s coldest and toughest races. Competitors mountain bike, cross-country ski, or run the Yukon Quest Trail from Whitehorse to either Braeburn (100-mile racers) or Pelly Farm (300-mile racers) as individuals or in teams.
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Dawson City Layover
A 36 hour mandatory layover for all Yukon Quest teams, in Dawson City, Yukon.
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Yukon Men’s Curling Championships
Come watch and cheer at this championship at the Whitehorse curling club!
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Jazz in the Hall
Drummer Lonnie Powell. Tickets $7 at the door and free to all ages 19 and under.
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Yukon Sourdough Rendezvous
The Yukon Sourdough Rendezvous is fun for the whole family! Take part in events such as axe throwing, dog sledding, flour packing, and chainsaw chucking, or taste sweets from the Sugar Shack, watch Can Can Dancers, and help elect the next Yukon Rendezvous Queen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=724j0B-0mIU 2019 Complete Schedule of Events to be announced. Please check back.
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Old Timers’ Hockey Tournament
Dawson old timers gather to play hockey for this fun event!
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Kiki Karnival
Recreational hockey, food fair, bingo, family games, community dinner, dancing, drag races, and more! (867) 536-7469 www.watsonlake.ca
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25th Annual Marsh Lake Ski Loppet
The Marsh Lake Ski Loppet is one of the most popular cross-country ski events in the Yukon. 1km, 3km, 10km, and 20km races are available for everyone from the recreational skier to experienced competitors. Come enjoy the hot food, refreshments, prizes, and more.
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February 2019
Outdoor Curling Bonspiel!
$100/team. 3 game guarantee, cash prizes. Contact Scott: 867 536 4573
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Dawson City Curling Club 120th Annual International Bonspiel
Teams from Dawson as well as other Yukon communities and visiting teams from Northern BC and NWT compete in this annual curling championship. Don’t miss the food and fun at the closing banquet!
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EDI Hut to Hut
A family event that encourages skiers and snowshoers to visit three trail huts for treats and surprises, finishing with a BBQ at the ski chalet.
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Trek Over the Top
Welcome snowmobile trekkers to Dawson City after they’ve trekked across the Top of the World Highway in winter conditions! This international snowmobile journey runs from Tok, Alaska to Dawson City, Yukon. Register early online.
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Jazz in the Hall
Vocalist Fawn Fritzen. Tickets $7 at the door and free to ages 19 and under.
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Thaw-Di-Gras Spring Carnival
Come celebrate the coming of spring in Dawson City with a chainsaw toss, lip-syncing competition, snowshoe baseball, road hockey, and more!
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The Percy DeWolfe Memorial Mail Race
Come watch world-class dog mushers race along the old mail route of Percy DeWolfe, a famous mail-carrier who braved deep sub-zero temperatures in the early 20th century to deliver mail. The route goes from Dawson City to Eagle, Alaska and back again.
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