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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: August 9, 2010
Caption: The Dominion Telegraph Office
Additional Description: "The Dominion Telegraph Office... has been designated a Whitehorse municipal historic site. The office was built in 1900 as part of the Ashcroft to Dawson telegraph line, which was the first quick reliable method for Klondike Gold Rush stampeders to communicate with the outside world. The Telegraph Office survived the 1905 fire which razed many of the buildings in downtown Whitehorse. It served as a telegraph office and operator residence until the late 1920s. It used by the Boy Scouts and by the RCMP in the 1930s and ‘40s. In the early 1950s became the first home of MacBride Museum".
Extracted from http://www.macbridemuseum.com
Submitted: May 26, 2011, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p154641
File Size: 2.704 Megabytes

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