Latest Recommendations

2009/10

YHRB recommends to the Yukon Minister of Tourism and Culture Elaine Taylor that eight applications to the Yukon Historic Resources Fund be funded. The projects recommended for funding were the following:

Caribou Hotel Rehabilitation Project: Repair and Replacement of 2nd/3rd Floor Windows
Klondike Sun Newspaper Archiving and Indexed Web Posting
Cataloguing, Conservation & Digitizing JJ Van Bibber's Photo Collection
Repair and Upgrade of Jack London Museum
Whitehouse Cabins: Stairs, Decks and Railings repair
Hets'edan Ku Traditional Sewing Project: Phase 2
9th Avenue Trail Historic Research
Public Interpretation of the Little John Site, Summer of 2010

RESULT: Minister Taylor accepted the recommendation

YHRB recommends that the wreck of the A.J. Goddard be designated a Yukon historic site.

RESULT: Minister Taylor accepted the recommendation

20010/11

YHRB recommends to the Yukon Minister of Tourism and Culture Elaine Taylor that five applications to the Yukon Historic Resources Fund be funded. The projects recommended for funding were the following:

Ed and Star Jones: Cemetery Restoration
Erin McMullen and Babe Richards: The Unsinkable Babe Richards biography project
Whitehorse Cross Country Ski Club: History of the Whitehorse Cross Country Ski Club
Miles Canyon Historic Railway Society: Interpretive Boreal Signage/Train Audio Capability for Community Museums
MacBride Museum of Yukon History: Yukon Sternwheeler/Waterfront History General Interest Book

RESULT: Minister Taylor accepted the recommendation