Poster
Archival Item
2026.11.11
Poster, Yukon Quest
1989 Yukon Quest poster, black printing and full colour image on beige poster board, signed by the mushers. Contains an amusing image of a lost musher with 8 dogs, against a snowy mountain background. On the back of the poster is a plastic hanger.
The posters were collected by Peter Anthony Garside, who timed many of the Yukon Quest races. They were inherited by his sister, Veronica Malzarby. For a time they were on display in the Midnight Sun Hotel in Dawson.
Yukon Quest posters were published and sold every year as souvenirs of the Quest. Purchasers often collected signatures of the mushers on their poster.
Yukon Quest posters were published and sold every year as souvenirs of the Quest. Purchasers often collected signatures of the mushers on their poster.
The Yukon Quest, formally the Yukon Quest 1,000-mile International Sled Dog Race, is a sled dog race that began in 1984, between Fairbanks, Alaska, and Whitehorse, Yukon, switching directions each year. The Quest had operated with both a Canadian board and an Alaska board. But in 2022, the race split over proposed rule changes to the 2023 race.Since then, there have been Yukon Quest races in both Yukon and Alaska, operating independently of each other with shorter course distances.