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The Yukon Historical & Museums Association

History The Yukon Historical & Museums Association was formed in 1977 to serve as an umbrella organization for Yukon museums and historical societies.

Mandate Since its creation, the YHMA has been an active Yukon-wide society, cooperating with museums, governments, institutions, and the public to carry out its mandate, "to preserve, interpret and protect the Yukon's heritage resources."

Projects

Heritage Walking Tours The Yukon Historical & Museums Association provides Historical Walking Tours of Whitehorse. They are offered between the end of May and the end of August, and each tour lasts for 45 minutes to an hour.

There are four tours each day, from Monday to Saturday, and they occur at 9:00 am, 11:00 am, 1:00pm and 3:00 pm. Special tours can be organized as well. You'll find YHMA in LePage Park at 3126-3rd Avenue, Whitehorse, Yukon Territory.

Audio Walking Tours

Voicethread Voicethread is a new web-based project. We're pulling historical photographs out of the Yukon Archives and posting them online using the Voicethread technology. With Voicethread anyone can post text, audio, or video comments on the photographs. It's part information gathering, part story telling, and part community commentary.