Informational Sign
Object
2024.10.1
Sign, single face, neon.
Single face neon sign: WHITE PASS & YUKON ROUTE
Yellow printing on green background.
Built in 1957 by Neon Products Ltd., Richmond B.C. for White Pass and Yukon Route.
"About 1958, the building acquired the second neon sign to appear in Whitehorse, the first being the rearing horse that marked the old Whitehorse Inn. The large orange sign, mounted on the depot roof, simply states "White Pass & Yukon Route." It has been a Whitehorse landmark ever since. For a short time after the company moved out and the building passed into the hands of the Yukon government, the sign was not switched on in order to save electrical bills. After a public outcry, the minister of the day quickly ordered that the sign be turned back on." - from The White Pass and Yukon Railway Depot, Whitehorse: A Structural History (Dobrowolsky, 1998)