About a dozen years ago, I purchased a 16mm film shot in 1949 by a woman on an Alaska-Yukon trip. The 52-minute reel is probaby the second of three films covering her cruise from Seattle or Vancouver to Skagway, week-long … Continue reading
Category Archives: Film & Video
Basel is a thrilling city – the history, the culture, the entire lifestyle, is wonderful. I really tried to keep the number of photos down for this post, but it just didn’t work for me – there’s so much I’d … Continue reading
During yesterday’s 11th anniversary of the terrorist attacks that changed the world that most of us knew, New York was of course the focus. Most people outside the Yukon have forgotten, or perhaps never heard, how Whitehorse was affected. Much … Continue reading
My intention was to get a good day’s work done at our Carcross cabin yesterday, but I got a bit distracted by a few things, mostly the warm sun! I got off to a late start, and when I finally … Continue reading
Wow, it’s the 7th of January already! Times does fly when you’re having fun 🙂 We had a very quiet New Year’s Eve as usual. The City put on an excellent fireworks display at 9:00pm, and I made it to … Continue reading
Canada Day 2011 (July 1st) was good fun in Whitehorse, even though it started out to be a very cold morning. The events were all held at Shipyards Park (as seems to be the norm now). We began the day … Continue reading
Tonight at 5:30pm on the My Yukon Life online radio show, the guest will be Norman Winther, a Yukon trapper who portrayed himself in Nicholas Vanier’s 2004 docu-drama, “The Last Trapper“. He’ll be sharing some his experiences with listeners of … Continue reading
I hadn’t been down to Skagway since the 18th of December, and for weeks I’d been watching for the right combination of decent weather and a “free” day. There’s actually no such thing as a free day anymore, but a … Continue reading
Here’s the video I mentioned last night. It was shot for Pan Americn World Airways, probably in 1946, as it features a DC-3, and in 1947 they had added DC-4s to the Alaska run. The entire film is 25 minutes … Continue reading
The 4-minute video posted below is from a 16mm film shot in 1949 by a woman on an Alaska trip. The 55-minute reel I have is probaby the second of three films covering her cruise from Seattle or Vancouver to … Continue reading