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Hotels of Canada


Introduction
Alberta Hotels
BC Hotels- BCYHA
Canada's Castles
Choice Hotels
Fairmont Airport
Harrison Resorts
Hotel History
Hotel humor
Hotel Packaging
Hyatt Regency
Calgary'
Ontario Inns
Sheraton Wall
Centre

Westin Grand
Whistler Hotels
Yellowhead Hotels
Yukon Hotels


Arlington Road House and other hotels along the Yukon
by Jerry W. Bird


One winter, while finishing high school in Dawson City on my own, I earned my
'meal ticket' working at Curly Salois' Westminster Hotel, one of the more sturdy remnants of Gold Rush Days. For some reason Curly's place stood on its foundation, despite the heaving permafrost that left most older buildings lurching to the right or left at some crazy angles. Yes Virginia, they really did have meal tickets, and there really was a hotel named The Pearl Harbour, after Pearl Carswell, a family friend. Then there's the original Whitehorse Inn, which my grandfather, Ernie J. Somerton, almost won in a poker game with owner T.C. Richards, a legend in his time.

As a curious youngster, I had a great fascination for abandoned road houses, such as the Hollenbeck on the Klondike's North Fork. The Arlington near the Bonanza gold fields was still operating at the time. Each roadhouse was a nugget , in a chain of coach stops from Dawson City, via Stewart, Minto, Carmacks and Lac Le Berge to Whitehorse, head of rail and steamboat transportation. Apple Jimmy had the only fruit store in the Yukon , at a time when the only fresh fruit came by Paddle wheeler. We plan to name a computer column in his honor.

While attending Klondike Night at the 1997 British Columbia & Yukon Hotels' Association Convention, an old high school friend, Kip Fisher of Mayo mentioned that today's Yukon hotels are as modern as any on the outside. As guests at two Westmark Inns, while producing the Alaska Highway's 50th Anniversary video, I can vouch for this. Going to the Yukon this year? Perhaps you may relive some of the history I spoke of, and I can assure you the accommodation will be to your liking. The "Mile Houses" along the Fraser River during BC's Cariboo Gold Rush are another story we will enjoy telling soon.

Canada's Hotels Part 3

At our Air & Marine Tourism Conference in Vancouver , Victoria's Kevin Walker, President of the BC-Yukon Hotels' Association at the time, spoke of how today's hoteliers can meet the challenge by creative tour packaging.

As a curious youngster, I had a great fascination for abandoned road houses, such as the Hollenbeck on the Klondike's North Fork. The Arlington near the Bonanza gold fields was still operating at the time. Each roadhouse was a nugget , in a chain of coach stops from Dawson City, via Stewart, Minto, Carmacks and Lac Le Berge to Whitehorse, head of rail and steamboat transportation. Apple Jimmy had the only fruit store in the Yukon , at a time when the only fresh fruit came by Paddle wheeler. We plan to name a computer column in his honor.

While attending Klondike Night at the 1997 British Columbia & Yukon Hotels' Association Convention, an old high school friend, Kip Fisher of Mayo mentioned that today's Yukon hotels are as modern as any on the outside. As guests at two Westmark Inns, while producing the Alaska Highway's 50th Anniversary video, I can vouch for this. Going to the Yukon this year? Perhaps you may relive some of the history I spoke of, and I can assure you the accommodation will be to your liking. The "Mile Houses" along the Fraser River during BC's Cariboo Gold Rush are another story we will enjoy telling soon.

Canada's Hotels Part 3

At our Air & Marine Tourism Conference in Vancouver , Victoria's Kevin Walker, President of the BC-Yukon Hotels' Association at the time, spoke of how today's hoteliers can meet the challenge by creative tour packaging.