Commercial Buildings
Hangar C
This hangar housed small private and commercial aircraft and was administered by Trans North Air. On January 18th, 1999 the hanger was destroyed by fire, the temperature that morning -20°.
Hubbard & Elliott General Store
This building was first located on Second Avenue and Main Street, where the Bank of Montreal presently sits. It was moved to 2116 Second Avenue ca.
Klondike Airways Building
This building appears as a wood frame building in a 1906 photo. It is located on a site previously occupied by a tent frame bakery. The building was later covered in galvanized metal and used as a warehouse.
Old Firehall
The first firehall in Whitehorse was built in 1901 after a long campaign promoting its merits to the public. In 1905, after 4 years of convincing residents to financially support the fire department, the firehall burned in the great Whitehorse fire.
Old Legion Hall
This building was constructed by Neil Forbes during World War II. Forbes owned a sawmill at Haekel Hill and was on contract to the US Army.
Pioneer Hotel
A portion of this building and another dwelling located nearby may constitute the oldest standing structures in the Whitehorse area. The Pioneer Hotel was originally located on the east bank of the Yukon River under the name of the Savoy Hotel.
S&A Club Café
This occupant was the Social and Athletic Club Café, or the S&A Café, as it was popularly known. The proprietors of this business were S. Wong and M. Nadic.
T.C. Richards Building
This house was completed by Bob Campbell and Martin Marx in July 1944. It was built for T.C. Richards and family, to Mrs. Bernadine Richards specifications. It was furnished and decorated expensively by Mrs. Richards.
Taylor & Drury Building
The interior of the building has undergone many alterations since it was first built. In 1950, the portion which was the Northern Commercial Company was acquired by T&D, and the two buildings were joined to form one store.
The Telegraph Office
This building, constructed on its present site in 1900, was the second telegraph office in Whitehorse. It has been under the care of the MacBride Museum since it opened in 1967.
The White Pass & Yukon Route Railway Depot
The original station was destroyed in 1905 by a fire that ravaged most of Whitehorse’s business community, but was reconstructed on the same site within two months.
Tung Lock Restaurant
This building was most likely built sometime soon after 1907 by William Shaw.
Whitehorse Inn
The Whitehorse Inn was built in 1927 by Mr. Kenzaburo “King” Yoshida, who operated the hotel until WW II compelled him to return to Japan.
Yukon Arts Centre Gallery
The Yukon Arts Centre Public Art Gallery is open year round and hosts ten to fourteen exhibitions a year…
The Yukon Theatre
The building is a large metal clad structure with a gable roof and a concrete foundation. It has an early modernist façade with an Art Deco influence.