THE YUKON - British Columbia: Including the Alaska Highway - page 693

senior $6.50, child $4.50) of the mansion and gardens are given daily by costumed inter-
preters.
Along 3rd Avenue beginning from behind the Commissioner's Residence are many
buildings with historic window displays, as well as the terribly slanted, oft-photographed
Strait's Auction House.
SS Keno
The restored riverboat SS Keno, built in 1922 in Whitehorse, is beached on Front Street. It
was used to transport ore from the mining area around Mayo down to the confluence of the
Yukon, from where larger riverboats transported it upriver to Whitehorse and the railhead.
The Keno sailed under its own steam to its resting place here in 1960 but wasn't restored
until 40 years later. Tour cost is adult $7.50, senior $6.50, child $4.50.
Dawson City Museum
The Dawson City Museum (595 5th Ave., 867/993-5291, 10am-6pm daily mid-May-Aug.,
1pm-5pm Tues.-Sat. Sept., adult $9, senior and child $7), housed within the imposing 1901
Territorial Administration Building, is also well worth visiting. The south and north gal-
leries present an enormous amount of history, from fossils and flora and fauna through
northern Athabascan lifestyles up to the Gold Rush and the subsequent developments. The
mining-history displays alone, from hand mining to dredges, are worth the price of admis-
sion; also check out the display on law and order during the Gold Rush.
Robert Service Cabin
Stroll three blocks uphill from the museum to view the Robert Service Cabin (corner 8th
Ave. and Hanson St., 9am-5pm daily in summer, adult $7.50, senior $6.50, child $4.50),
which the poet called home from 1909 to 1912. Recitations of Service's best-known poems
take place daily at 3pm. Service, who never took shovel nor pan to earth nor water, wound
up as a troubadour-bank teller in Dawson and made his fame and fortune unexpectedly
while living here, penning such classic prose poems as “The Cremation of Sam McGee”
and “The Shooting of Dan McGrew.” No one has lived in this cabin since Service left
Dawson a celebrity in 1912, and people have been making pilgrimages to it ever since.