Filed under: History , Learning , North America , Canada The shipwreck of a gold rush-era steamboat that sunk in a lake located in the Yukon Territory of Canada has been recently discovered and photographed for the first time according to this story from National Geographic . The boat went down in a storm back in 1901, and was found by salvage crew in October of 2008. The ship, known as the A.J. Goddard...
WEST VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA (MARKET WIRE) Columbia Yukon Explorations Inc. (the "Company" or "Columbia Yukon") (TSX VENTURE: CYU)(FRANKFURT: VOR) is pleased to report on the exploration work program completed by the Company in 2009 on its "Storie" Property molybdenum deposit located near Cassiar, British Columbia.
The Yukon has seen a big increase in the number of doctors practising in the territory in recent years, according to a national health report released Thursday.
WHITEHORSE, YUKON (MARKET WIRE) The Honourable Diane Ablonczy, Minister of State for Small Business and Tourism, on behalf of the Honourable Chuck Strahl, Minister of the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency (CanNor), today announced funding to support tourism in Yukon. Destination Yukon is a Yukon government tourism marketing project to attract more Canadian travellers to Yukon from high...
Nintendo have revealed this weeks DSiWare, WiiWare, and Virtual Console releases for the UK Virtual Console Shanghai II Dragon's Eye – Sega Mega Drive The ancient pastime of Mah-Jongg is reinvented as an interactive video game where each tile you remove may be your last! WiiWare Copter Crisis puts you in the pilot’s seat! As a member of the elite Helicopter Rescue Squad, you’ll be...
Los Angeles TimesUnderwater archaeologists recently said they have found a virtual time capsule of life during Canada's Klondike Gold Rush: a sunken Yukon River sternwheeler so preserved that researchers can document the last minutes of the five-man ...
Today's Guests: Woodhands A few months back CBC Radio 2 launched The Great Canadian Song Quest , c ommissioning 13 new songs about your favourite spots in Canada (one from each province and territory ) written and performed by 13 great Canadian singer songwriters. Today I’ll debut all of the songs! Here’s the final list of artist and places: Province/Artist/Place British Columbia/ Oh Susanna...
Underwater archaeologists said this week they have found a virtual time capsule of life during Canada's Klondike Gold Rush: a sunken Yukon River stern-wheeler so preserved that researchers can document the last minutes of the five-man crew as well as their life aboard the primitive cargo-hauler
Is a Dutch fishmonger about to change our attitudes to catching and consuming seafood? Seven years ago, while working in an upmarket Dutch restaurant, Bart van Olphen observed something curious. Though most Dutch people barely touched fish at home, more than half the meals they ordered when eating out were fish. Looking around the local fishmonger it wasn't hard to see why; while the restaurant was...
I'm taking Thursday and Friday off for the Thanksgiving holiday (except for covering the shuttle landing, of course). Here are some Web links to see you through the long weekend, including a story that's creating quite a bit of advance buzz: Spaceflight Now: Mars meteorite yields secrets of possible life JPL: Cassini captures ghostly dance of Saturn's northern lights DVICE: Augmented reality from a...
Here's local North Carolina media coverage of Palin's book signing on base at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina: ...and this piece of Sarah puff porn: In the first video, Palin's father campaigns for Palin's 2012 presidential bid on camera, on base. In the second video, made before Palin's Monday Ft. Bragg appearance, she is clearly campaigning for GOP or Tea Party candidates in 2010, when answering a reporter's...
University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science : New research on bacterial communities throughout six large Arctic river ecosystems reveals predictable temporal patterns, suggesting that scientists could use these communities as markers for monitoring climate change in the polar regions. The study, published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Early Edition, shows...
Thanks to Will Baird for pointing me in the direction of this news story . Karen Marie Fernets is a serial embezzler who bilked thousands of dollars from several employers in Saskatchewan, Alberta and the Yukon. Last month, Fernets was sentenced for theft and fraud charges dating back to 2005. Compared with other recent economic crimes, her tactics were unsophisticated -- she made a series of cheques...
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