YUKON Hotels
| FEATURE HOTEL WESTMARK INN DAWSON CITY | |
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Built in 1750, Renovated
in 2000, the Hotel Vieux-Port is a Cozy Little Hotel At the Entrance
of the Old Port, near the River Saint-Laurent. Here in Old
Montreal Guest Find Themselves near the Leisure and Business
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There are many great Yukon hotels
and many interesting things to visit while you are here. Your visit to
Whitehorse, Yukon will be an educating, enriching, and
peaceful one. Book a Whitehorse hotel now with Hotel Savings for special
discounted rates on hotels, airfare, and rental cars.
There is a lot of history with Whitehorse...essentially with its association
with the Klondike Gold Rush at the end of the 19th century. But Whitehorse
was merely a place to rest, the primary goal was Dawson City. Whitehorse
played a vital role in navigation of Yukon...first as an Eastern junction of
the railway leading to Alaska. Then as a busy port for passenger boats and
barges on the Yukon River. It also served as a base during the Second World
War for the building of the Canol Pipeline and the Alaskan Highway.
Today, Whitehorse is the cultural and governmental centre of the Yukon
Territory. Visitors to the area enjoy hiking, skiing, canoeing,
mountaineering, dogsledding, and hot springs bathing. Whitehorse is very
cold for the long Winters but summers can be actually hot.
HOTELS IN THE PROVINCE OF YUKON
INCLUDING DAWSON CITY AND
WHITEHORSE
Westmark Inn Dawson City
High Country Inn
Westmark Inn Whitehorse
Best Western Golf Rush Inn
Westmark Klondike Inn
Westmark Beaver Creek
The Yukon Territory has a population of only 31,000, and 23,000 of those live in Whitehorse. Whitehorse is the capital of the Yukon and is a fairly young. It was established only in the spring of 1900, 2 years after the stampeders had entered Dawson City. Whitehorse, on the banks of the Yukon River, is the center of the Territory, and it became the capital in 1953. Dawson City slowly faded out along with its gold.