Alaska – Canada Travels 2014, George Black Ferry and Dawson City, August 10th to 11th.

The George Black Ferry comes across the Yukon from Dawson City.

Today we took the ferry early so we can spend the day taking in the sights of Dawson City.

Vehicles disembark and we get ready to load onto the ferry.

Riding the ferry across the Yukon to Dawson City.

We stay two nights at the Gold Rush Campground in Dawson City so we can conveniently  walk around town.

Dawson City is colorful and authentic. The street are dirt with boardwalks along the store fronts.

Dawson is colorful and authentic. They have a preservation society that keeps it looking much like the famed frontier town of the gold rush days.

Strolling through the streets of Dawson City.

Our Parks Canada guide gives us a tour of a restored saloon and tells us about the social proprieties of the frontier days.

I get to serve this rugged gentleman.

The story of Dawson and the Klondike Gold Rush is best told by costumed Parks Canadian staff at the Visitor Center who led walking tours of the town throughout the day. We took four of these tours led us through several of the historic buildings. The staff members were fun and engaging.

Our guide give us a tour through the original post office.

The post office windows.

The Dawson Daily News office.

The Dawson Daily News building is filled with old type setters, presses and paper folders. A treasure of printing equipment.

Next we tour through the grand theater. A gold rush town needs the best entertainment.

Inside the theater.

Looking down on the stage from the private box seats.

Frontier comfort and plush living quarters for the top-billing theater stars.

We also visited the Robert Service cabin and the Jack London cabin which inspired us to want to read more of both writers. They were the real deal, living the life and times of the Gold Rush.

Robert Service.

The Robert Service Cabin in Dawson City.

The Jack London Cabin in Dawson City was moved to town from it's original location.

Inside the Jack London Cabin. He inscribed his name on one of the logs. Can you imagine the inspiration he found here?

The Jack London Museum has a photo graphic history of his life and film clips from movies made from his novels. A must see for everyone who loves his work.

 

One of the beautiful restored homes in Dawson.

Dawson's homes are as colorful as the buildings in the business district.

Next time we visit the No. 4 Gold Dredge.

 

Until then,

Jackie