Word: yukon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vast northern "Tomorrow Country" (TIME, Aug. 3), the 1,500,000-sq.-mi. Yukon and Northwest Territories, a happy discovery served notice on Canada that tomorrow is coming sooner than it thinks. On black-fly-infested tundra 175 miles above Dawson City, Chance No. 1, the first gas-oil well in Canada near the Arctic Circle, blew in with a roar. The discovery was made by Western Minerals Co., which belongs to Calgary Lawyer-Oilman Eric Harvie. Gushed the Toronto Globe and Mail: "A landmark in northern history." Sixty-one years after it struck gold, the Yukon had struck black...
...told that back in July Canada's Prime Minister John Diefenbaker had been let in on the secret (as had Ike and Mamie), but that it was the Queen alone who had decided not to curtail her tour except for those two days at Whitehorse in the Yukon. Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana had also been told, early because, as the palace announced last week, the Queen's fall tour of Ghana, Sierra Leone and Gambia would have to be canceled...
...Seaway, and the informal journeys that followed, was a symbol of the Commonwealth to which Canada belongs as a vital and equal young partner. Her Canadian subjects greeted her with neither awe nor indifference, but with friendship. As the Whitehorse Star informed her with proper pioneer breeziness in the Yukon: QUEEN...
With this new whir of activity, the vast emptiness of the Yukon and Northwest Territories is changing fast. Eskimos whose fathers hunted seals and lived in igloos now drive bulldozers and travel by outboard-powered glass-fiber canoe. One Eskimo, who needed a new hair sight for his rifle, calmly dismantled his $100 wristwatch for a piece of the mainspring. In Inuvik, Indian youths with ducktail haircuts and jeans crouch over a pool table, while their girl friends in ribboned pony tails and candy-striped toreador pants play A Teenager in Love on the jukebox...
Dahlias Like Dinner Plates. Canada's North-the Yukon and Northwest Territories - covers an area of 1,500,000sq. mi., nearly half as big as the U.S. Geographers define the Arctic as the land north of the tree line-roughly the climatic boundary where the July temperature averages no more than 50°. But the January mean in Whitehorse is 8° warmer than Winnipeg's, 750 miles to the south; Fort Smith's all-time high of 103° is 1° higher than New Orleans'. The annual snowfall at Resolute (latitude...