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AllRefer.com - Whitehorse, Canada (Canadian Political Geography) - Encyclopedia (236 words) |
 | 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. |
| It is headquarters of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for S Yukon and has an airport, a radio station, and a weather station. |
| Yukon Territory - definition of Yukon Territory in Encyclopedia (1284 words) |
| The capital, Whitehorse, is also the largest city with more than two thirds of the population; the second largest is Dawson City, which was the capital until 1952. |
| Today, major land transportation routes include the Alaska Highway, which passes through Whitehorse; the Klondike Highway going from tidewater in Skagway, Alaska to Dawson City; the Haines Highway from Haines, Alaska to Haines Junction, Yukon, and the Dempster Highway from the Klondike Highway to Inuvik, Northwest Territories. |
| The air transport infrastructure is well developed with Whitehorse International Airport serving as the hub with direct flights to Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Fairbanks and Frankfurt (summer months). |
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