Whitehorse, Yukon My wife and I expected to use Whitehorse as our hub for a tour of the Yukon, but what we found in and around this capital city was more than we expected. To begin with, we found that the place was far from the northern wilderness we had read about in days gone by. True, it is small for a capital (pop. 23,205), but it has all the ubiquitous franchises one expects to see in larger communities: Wal-Mart, Staples, Tim Horton’s and several others. We found a local brewery  more...