Template:Did you know nominations/Yukon Hotel

Yukon Hotel

 * ... that the Yukon Hotel in Dawson City, built during the Klondike Gold Rush, was sold for $1 at the urging of Pierre Berton?
 * Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Hymenaea mexicana
 * Comment: The hook conflates two related facts cited in the article. If this is deemed inappropriate, I'll provide alternate hooks.

Created by Mindmatrix (talk). Self nom at 15:18, 5 February 2013 (UTC)


 * Symbol question.svg The article is new enough and long enough. The hook is verified on the Heritage Canada website except the "at the urging of Pierre Berton" part.  I think the hook would be better without it. -Zanhe (talk) 13:45, 6 February 2013 (UTC)
 * As I stated in my comment above, I conflated two facts for the hook. Anyway, I've proposed a few alternates below. Mind  matrix  15:57, 6 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ALT1: ... that the Yukon Hotel in Dawson City, built in 1898 during the Klondike Gold Rush, was sold for $1?
 * ALT2: ... that because milled lumber was in short supply, the Yukon Hotel in Dawson City was made of "rough logs chinked with mud"?
 * ALT3: ... that the first occupant of the Yukon Hotel in Dawson City was the Government of Canada?
 * ALT4: ... that the Yukon Hotel in Dawson City is a "representation of typical commercial structures" of the Klondike Gold Rush?
 * Symbol confirmed.svg ALT1 is the most "hooky" fact of the four, and verified with inline citation. Good to go. -Zanhe (talk) 16:04, 6 February 2013 (UTC)