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TESLIN’S
ESSENTIAL STOP
GROCERIES • GAS STATION • MOTEL
General Store:
Groceries • Bakery • Fresh Produce
Dairy • Ice Cream • Gifts • Souvenirs
Hardware • Camping Gear • Lottery
Fishing Tackle & Licenses • Ice
Services: Gas • Diesel
Propane • ATM • Pay Phone
Accommodations:
Upgraded rooms include:
Microwave • Ice • Satellite TV
Fridge • Internet
OPEN DAILY
24 HR PAY AT THE PUMP
Mile 804 Alaska Hwy • TESLIN, YUKON • 867-390-2521 • nisutlintradingpost.ca
MUST SEE!
Meet George Johnston—Tlingit photographer,
trapper and entrepreneur. George Johnston’s
remarkable life is the vehicle we use to tell the story
of the Inland Tlingit and the history of the Teslin area.
Open 1 June to Labour Day
9:00am–5:00pm Daily
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Located just north of the Nisutlin Bay
Bridge on the Alaska Highway
[email protected]
www.gjmuseum.ca • 867-390-2550
NORTHERN BESTSELLERS
AVAILABLE EVERYWHERE!
“I have read many books
on the Yukon, but this is
different. It is the gallant
personality of the author
which shines on every page,
and makes her chronicle a
saga of the High North.”
— Robert Service
A Memoir of Love and Adventure in the Yukon
In 1907, Laura Beatrice Berton left behind her life as a kindergarten
teacher in Toronto and boarded a steamboat bound for the Yukon. What
was meant to be a one-year teaching assignment in a distant mining town
turned into a lifelong connection to the land, its people, and a man she
would marry. For the next 25 years, she made Dawson City her home.
Expecting a rough-and-tumble frontier town, Berton arrived in Dawson
bracing for a place dominated by miners, Mounties in red serge, and
lively dance halls. While those were present, she also discovered a
community steeped in culture, resilience, and unexpected elegance.
Dawson’s reputation as the “Paris of the North” came to life through tea
parties, formal balls, sleigh rides, and winter pageantry that clung to
the glory days of the Gold Rush. Behind the scenes, stories unfolded of
survival and struggle, including poets writing from cabin walls, starving
missionaries, and fortune-seekers growing old in icy creeks.
Every fall, most residents left on the final riverboat before the ice came,
but Berton remained, anchored by her love for the North. Her memoir
captures both the hardship and the charm of life in a fading gold rush
town, told with wit, grace, and the clear voice of a woman who lived it all.
$18.95
Published By:
9 781069 661715
ISBN: 978-1-0696617-1-5
Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada
www.northernbooks.ca
Printed in China
Distributed by PR Services Ltd.
northernbooks.ca
BERTON PR SERVICES
With a Preface by ROBERT SERVICE
LAURA BEATRICE BERTON
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