Newspaper Clipping
Archival Item
1996.42.104 a-h
Seven newspaper and one magazine clipping. Six items relate to the burning of the stearnwheelers WHITEHORSE and CASCA; two relate to the selling of the KLONDIKE to a Vancouver businessman.
These items were clipped from primarily the Whitehorse Star newspaper.
The Casca (the third ship with that name) and the Whitehorse had been sitting on the ways at Whitehorse since being taken out of service in 1952 and 1955 respectively. The White Pass & Yukon Route, whose British Yukon Navigation Company division had operated the ships on the Yukon River, sold these two boats, along with the Keno and Klondike, to the Government of Canada in 1960, but little had been done to preserve them beyond painting them and putting up a security fence in 1973.
https://www.explorenorth.com/library/ships/casca-whitehorse-1974.html
https://www.explorenorth.com/library/ships/casca-whitehorse-1974.html