Abandoned Buildings, Living Communities : Local Resistance to Preservation in Dawson City, Yukon

• Published in: Ethnologies
• Main Author: Burns, Jane
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Association Canadienne d’Ethnologie et de Folklore 1999
• Subjects: Yukon; Canada; Blanche; Dawson City; Dawson
• Online Access: http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1087765ar; https://doi.org/10.7202/1087765ar

Dawson City is many things to many people. To the local white community, Dawson City is a home where they live within both a tourist destination and a globally recognised historic site. Many resist these labels, quietly opposing the reconstruction and tourism movements that have dictated much of Daw...