The fonds consists of photographs, textual material, newspapers, a variety of published items and two maps. The photographs in this fonds cover a time period of ca. 1959-1975 and were donated in three accessions. The first accession, 82/527, consists of 8,797 negatives. The second accession, 82/563, consists of 19,620 negatives and 11,044 of black and white prints. The photographs include a wide variety of views of newsworthy events in Whitehorse, and in the Yukon generally. Many of the major news items of this period are represented - such as visits by Pierre Trudeau and Governor-General Michener, the climbing of Mt. Kennedy by American Senator Robert Kennedy, the opening of the Skagway Road and Dempster Highway, the removal of the last shack on Whiskey Flats, and the restoration of the S.S. Klondike. As well, there are also numerous photographs of local events, activities, buildings, sports and people, including Whitehorse and other Yukon residents, personalities and politicians. A third accession, 82/419, consists of two black and white photographs of Patsy Henderson and his wife dressed in First Nations ceremonial costume in front of the White Pass and Yukon Route (WP&YR) railway station at Carcross. The newspapers include 187 bound copies plus loose issues of the Whitehorse Star from 1901 to present. The fonds also contains textual materials comprised of newspaper clippings, typescript and handwritten articles, correspondence and miscellaneous information that originally accompanied some of the photographs. There are two maps. One, copied by Department of Public Works in 1966 from a 1925 map, depicts the receding ice front at Tarr Inlet. The second map is a 1967 topographical survey map of Steele Glacier produced for the Yukon Alpine Centennial Expedition. Accession 2001/01 consists of eleven boxes of research files transferred to the Yukon Archives by Chuck Tobin, Local News reporter for the Whitehorse Star. This accession is unprocessed.
Whitehorse Star Ltd.