{"id":21827,"date":"2010-06-14T22:28:12","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T05:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=7018"},"modified":"2016-09-15T17:30:30","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T14:30:30","slug":"the-s-s-keno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/the-s-s-keno\/","title":{"rendered":"The S.S. Keno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The S.S. Keno is a paddleboat that hauled cargo up and down the Yukon from the early 1920s to the mid 1950s. When the road to Keno City was built in the &#8217;50s, paddlewheelers fell out of favour. For one thing, they were using wood at such a rate that there was a risk of running out of trees! The completion of the Klondike highway to Dawson City was the nail in the paddlewheelers coffin.<\/p>\n<p>On August 23, 1960, the S.S. Keno began her final journey from Whitehorse to Dawson City where she would be dry docked forever and turned into a museum. Today, she is a National Historic Site.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/the-s-s-keno\/cimg0001-57\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7019\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7019\" src=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/CIMG00011-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"CIMG0001\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/the-s-s-keno\/cimg0002-50\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7020\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7020\" src=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/CIMG00021-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"CIMG0002\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7021\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/the-s-s-keno\/cimg0003-39\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7021\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7021\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7021\" src=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/CIMG00031-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"the interpreter thought it would be funny to wear a life jacket today :)\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7021\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">the interpreter thought it would be funny to wear a life jacket today \ud83d\ude42<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_7022\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/the-s-s-keno\/cimg0005-34\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7022\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7022\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7022\" src=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/CIMG00053-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Laura Berton was the mother of Pierre Berton's mother\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7022\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laura Berton was the mother of Pierre Berton&#8217;s mother<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/the-s-s-keno\/cimg0006-23\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7023\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7023\" src=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/CIMG00063-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"CIMG0006\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/the-s-s-keno\/cimg0007-28\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7024\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7024\" src=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/CIMG00074-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"CIMG0007\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/the-s-s-keno\/cimg0009-25\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7025\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7025\" src=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/CIMG00093-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"CIMG0009\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/the-s-s-keno\/cimg0010-16\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7026\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7026\" src=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/CIMG00102-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"CIMG0010\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/the-s-s-keno\/cimg0011-22\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7027\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7027\" src=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/CIMG00112-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"CIMG0011\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a 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href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/the-s-s-keno\/cimg0030-13\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7044\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7044\" src=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/CIMG00301-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"CIMG0030\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/the-s-s-keno\/cimg0031-11\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7045\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7045\" src=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/CIMG00312-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"CIMG0031\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7046\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/the-s-s-keno\/cimg0032-12\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7046\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7046\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7046\" src=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/CIMG00322-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"I wouldn't have wanted the cabin with the beam running through it!\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7046\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I wouldn&#8217;t have wanted the cabin with the beam running through it!<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/the-s-s-keno\/cimg0033-13\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7047\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7047\" src=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/CIMG00332-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"CIMG0033\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My favourite part of the exhibit was the movie! It was filmed in August 1960 and documents the S.S. Keno&#8217;s final voyage. It answered one of my most burning questions about the Klondike: how did ships pass through <a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=1612\">Five Finger Rapids<\/a>? The movie is also good for comic relief when a man waxes poetically about how much easier life was then compared to the 1920&#8217;s since modern technology had brought about DDT and mosquitoes were no longer a problem&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Visiting the S.S. Keno takes about an hour and fills in yet another gap of Dawson&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The S.S. Keno is a paddleboat that hauled cargo up and down the Yukon from the early 1920s to the mid 1950s. When the road to Keno City was built in the &#8217;50s, paddlewheelers fell out of favour. For one thing, they were using wood at such a rate that there was a risk of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[632,1126,635,5,3,1040],"tags":[796,804,1469,801],"class_list":["post-21827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-dawson-city-yukon-canada-travel","category-north-america","category-rving","category-travel","category-yukon","tag-city-tours","tag-history-museums","tag-klondike-highway","tag-maritime-museums"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}