Tuesday, August 07, 2007

Dawson City

Sign in front of St Paul's church.
The boiler that cremated Sam McGee. This was a poem done by Robert Service.
This is one of many of the old abandoned buildings in the various towns.
Old newspaper regarding amount of gold taken from the area.
The local casino and old fashioned dance hall. They perform like they did in the gold rush days.
This church from 1901 is being destroyed slowly by perma frost.
Robert Service was a local writer and poet. This was on the side of one of the buildings.
One of the old buildings destroyed by Perma Frost. per Internet =Any rock or soil material that has remained below 32° F continuously for two or more years. The two-year minimum stipulation is meant to exclude from the definition the overlying ground surface layer which freezes every winter and thaws every summer (called the "active layer" or "seasonal frost"). Thaw-unstable — Poorly drained, fine grained soils, especially silts and clays. Such soils generally contain large amounts of ice. The result of thawing can be loss of strength, excessive settlement and soil containing so much moisture that it flows.
Dawson City as seen from the Yukon Queen.

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