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Whitehorse city (1991 pop. 17,925), S Yukon, Canada, on the Yukon River. Since 1952 it has been the territorial capital. Whitehorse is on the Alaska Highway and was the terminus of the White Pass and Yukon Railway from Skagway, Alaska, which suspended service in 1982. The city is the center of a copper-mining, hunting, and fur-trapping region that attracts growing numbers of tourists. After an economic lull in the mid-1980s, the discovery of the world's largest tungsten reserve at Mae Pass revitalized the city. It is headquarters of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for S Yukon and has an airport, a radio station, and a weather station. It was an important supply and stage center during the Klondike gold rush (1897-98). During World War II it was the center of the Canol oil project (closed in 1945).

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Whitehorse or White Horse an elevated site or outposted hill on the perimeter of the Iron Triangle in North Korea.

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	Whitehorse.(Canada)(Brief Article) Magazine article from: Catholic Insight; 2/1/2006; 110 words ; Whitehorse, Yukon -- Father Gary Gordon, 48, of the Archdiocese of Vancouver has been appointed bishop of Whitehorse. The diocese of Whitehorse has been without its own bishop since the accidental death in an aeroplane crash of Bishop Lobsinger... Read more
	Whitehorse.(Book Review)(Audiobook Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article) Magazine article from: Kliatt; 9/1/2002; ; 184 words ; ...Sutcliffe. 1999/2001. Read by Kate Reading. Books on Tape 7-1.5 hour tapes. 0-7366-7628-7. $56.00. Vinyl; plot note. SA Johnny Whitehorse, the Reservation's bad boy, and Leah Starr, the Senator's golden daughter, are star-crossed lovers who couldn't withstand... Read more
	Wind climate of the Whitehorse area.(Report) Magazine article from: Arctic; 9/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ABSTRACT. Measurements from Whitehorse upper-air and nearby mountaintop...begins at about 150 m above the Whitehorse valley floor, or 850 m above sea...southwest, while stations within the Whitehorse Valley recorded winds from the... Read more
	Emmi Whitehorse at Jan Cicero.(Brief Article) Magazine article from: Art in America; 9/1/1999; ; 354 words ; ...her mixed-medium works on paper, Emmi Whitehorse depicts an atmosphere--earth and sky...a low panorama of scrub and desert, Whitehorse rubs layers of colored pigment into...land and human activity on it. Some of Whitehorse's sketchy forms, such as patterns of... Read more
	Whitehorse & frozen dreams: revisiting the Arctic of his youth, a Canadian writer finds his way home.(Transport) Magazine article from: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine); 10/26/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...way to Canada's Arctic, to the town of Whitehorse in the Yukon Territory, and I am attending...I asked her what the population of Whitehorse was. Well, she said, the population...Indeed, you could continue up past Whitehorse on the Alaska Highway to Inuvik and... Read more
	Tales of war and madness new fare of festival. (All My Relations).(Yukon International Storytelling Festival in Whitehorse) Newspaper article from: Wind Speaker; 6/1/2003; ; 675 words ; ...Yukon International Storytelling Festival has been held in Whitehorse. This year's festival will be held from July 4 to 6, and will...in the new Shipyards Park currently being developed on the Whitehorse waterfront. A weekend pass to this year's Yukon International... Read more
	Investigation demanded in northern shooting. Newspaper article from: Wind Speaker; 10/1/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...Rob McKinley Windspeaker Staff Writer WHITEHORSE Native leaders in the Yukon want answers...Aboriginal man was shot and killed by Whitehorse RCMP on Sept. 8. According to RCMP...serious crimes squad were dispatched to Whitehorse to assist in the police investigation... Read more
	Two individuals selected as top coaches for 2007.(sports)(Danielle Lang and Leslie Johns) Newspaper article from: Windspeaker; 6/1/2008; ; 654 words ; WHITEHORSE A pair of individuals from the Yukon capital of Whitehorse have been selected as Canada's top Aboriginal coaches...physical education credit, she coached a team in the Whitehorse Minor Soccer League. She enjoyed the experience so much... Read more
	Fame & fortune: the legacy of Skookum Jim (Mason). Newspaper article from: Wind Speaker; 6/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...Irene Gladue Windspeaker Staff Writer WHITEHORSE Staff members at the friendship centre in Whitehorse are abuzz these days, as they await the...Creek, located about 400 km north of Whitehorse. Skookum Jim was born in 1856 to Tagish... Read more
	Live and learn and eat snow through travel. Newspaper article from: Wind Speaker; 4/1/2001; ; 548 words ; When I told people I was going to Whitehorse, I got a blank stare. In January? was...up north to attend the first annual Whitehorse Comedy Festival. And whenever I think of people going to Whitehorse in January, I burst out laughing. But... Read more