Some views of being in Canada.  Now that we are in Whitehorse, I would like to comment on what I see up here.  All of the Canadians we have met, are very nice to visit  with and very helpful.   I feel that they are suffering from too much government, just like we are.  The RV parks are nice, but there are charges for everything; showers, laundry, cable TV and it just goes on and on.  One car wash wanted $1 a minute for the wash.  Restaurant food is very expensive.   The price of gas is between $5 and $6 US, and groceries are at least 20% higher than ours.  I am not going to complain about Glasgow grocery stores, when I get home.  We have visited the Transportation Museum, the McBride Museum, and the stern wheeler, the Klondike.  The TransportationMuseum covered everything from the native boats, dog sleds, trains, trucks, and aviation.  One of the exhibits is a 1920's vintage Fairchild FC-2.  It is being rebuilt, and a Waco EGC-8, several Fokkers, and a good display of a pilot and his lady  passenger  that survived for 49 days, after crashing in a Howard DGA-15, and the weather was as cold as -50.  They also had a US Army tundra buggy for servicing  the Dewline Radar sites.  The tires were about 8' high and 3' across, and it is as long as a big truck.  The airport has a DC-3 for a windsock.  It was used during WWII, and finally ended up being a freighter, and then abandoned.  It was restored and set up on the pole at the airport.

                                                               Whitehorse Windsock
                   

                                                        Waco at the Transportation Museum

The McBride Museum had exhibits about the native population, from when they crossed the Bering Straits, and the wildlife here, and an exhibit called "From Gold to Government".  It was about the early days of Whitehorse to modern days.  They had a gold exhibit, showing the different golds from different regions, with the golds having different colors, due to other metals in them. An early printing press, barber shop, radio equipment, and other  exhibits.  They had on of the first steam engines to operate on the Whitepass and Yukon Railroad.  It was built in 1899, and operated until 1940.
 The Klondike paddlewheeler was very impressive.  It was 240' long and only drew 40"  of water.  The accommodations for the first class passengers were top notch, and second class couldn't come up on that deck.

  

                                    
                                                                 The Klondike
The boat sits on the Yukon Rive in downtown Whitehorse.

Our trailer has been doing well, with lots of space for kitty, Roberta, and I. The only problems we have had is a broken screen door latch, which we will have to order, because the trailer is too new, and our Dometic 300 toilet, which had an internal leak, and smelled like an outhouse.  I called the company and the expedited a toilet to Whitehorse, and I installed the new one in a half an hour.  Tomorrow, we are on our way to Destruction Bay, YT and the next day to Tok Junction, Alaska ,
and on to Fairbanks for a few days.