Whitehorse: The Yukon River Corridor Plan

• Main Author: Cabott, Lesley
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Institute of Planners 2000
• Subjects: Yukon River Watershed (Yukon and Alaska); Yukon > Capital and capitol; City planning > Yukon > Whitehorse; Yukon River Corridor Plan; Canada; Whitehorse Rapids; Yukon; Whitehorse; Yukon river; Alaska
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10613/6533; https://doi.org/10.25316/IR-1442

The Yukon River is one of the great rivers of the world. A sixmile stretch of it known as the Whitehorse Rapids gave our city its name. Today, the river is both a source of power and a recreational playground, and so we have become increasingly aware of our responsibility to safeguard it as the dominant feature of the Yukon River Corridor. Part of the Canadian portrait: Canadian provincial and territories cities section. https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/6533/Cabott.pdf?sequence=3