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  Yukon Territory - MSN Encarta
The indigenous population in the Yukon Territory at the time of the 2001 census was 29.5 percent of the population.
Yukon College, a junior college, was established in 1983.
The Yukon Territory is represented in the Canadian Parliament by one elected representative in the House of Commons and by one senator appointed by the federal government.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761576299_2/Yukon_Territory.html   (1156 words)

  
 Anthropology and Archaeology at Yukon College : Anthropology and Archaeology at Yukon College
Anthropology and Archaeology at Yukon College : Anthropology and Archaeology at Yukon College
Yukon College is the only post-secondary educational institution in Yukon Territory, Canada.
This is the land of the Athapaskans and the Klondike gold rush.The College has a main campus in Whitehorse (Ayamdigut) and network of Community Campuses throughout the territory.
dl1.yukoncollege.yk.ca /anthropology   (514 words)

  
 National Literacy Secretariat - Project Funding 2002-2003 (Yukon)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Yukon College will produce a literacy resource booklet for Adult learners that explores the historical connections between the Kwanlin Dun First Nation (KDFN) and other First Nations in the Yukon, traditions and the current social and familial relationships of KDFN members.
Yukon College, with the support of Human Resources Development Canada's Youth Service Canada and the National Literacy Secretariat, will involve at-risk youth with weak literacy skills in the production of an Employment Guide for youth in the Yukon which will be distributed throughout the territory.
Yukon College will gather information from employers, First Nations, government, organizations, and youth from across the territory on topics such as current and future work opportunities, barriers to employment, strategies for preparing for interviews, employer expectations and strategies for balancing work and life.
www.hrsdc.gc.ca /en/hip/lld/nls/Funding/2002-03yt.shtml   (741 words)

  
 Yukon College - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yukon College is a community college in the Canadian territory of Yukon.
The college was founded in 1983, replacing the Yukon Vocational and Technical Training Centre, which had been in operation since the 1960s.
The college participates in the University of the Arctic and cooperates with the University of Regina in the Yukon Native Teacher Education Program.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yukon_College   (110 words)

  
 Yukon Community Profiles
Yukon College is also a member of the University of the Arctic, an international network of higher-education institutions around the circumpolar north.
The Yukon Family Services Association and the Yukon Housing Corporation provide services from their main offices in Whitehorse, and the YTG Health and Social Services department provides a range of services in the Whitehorse area.
Yukon artists and craftspeople are featured in the Yukon Government Building's art collection, on display in the foyer, and at the Captain Martin House gallery, as well as in a number of local stores and an artists' cooperative.
www.yukoncommunities.yk.ca /communities/whitehorse/community   (1486 words)

  
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Under the act, Yukon College is responsible for providing educational programs, services, and activities to meet the needs of people in the Yukon and provides certificate, diploma, and degree programming.
The board of governors of the college is responsible for the government, conduct, and management of the operations of the institution including educational policies and activities that relate to quality assurance, particularly establishing programs of study and student admission standards.
Yukon College serves a vast, sparsely populated region of the Canadian North.
www.cicic.ca /en/page.aspx?sortcode=2.20.24.27.27.27   (1258 words)

  
 The Ultimate Yukon Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference
Yukon or Yukon Territory or (improperly) The Yukon is one of Canada's northern territories, in the country's extreme northwest.
The two main Yukon rivers flowing into the Mackenzie in the Northwest Territories are the Liard River in the southeast and the Peel River and its tributaries in the northeast.
Yukon is one of eight jurisdictions in Canada to offer same-sex marriage, along with British Columbia, Manitoba, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec and Saskatchewan.
www.dogluvers.com /dog_breeds/Yukon   (1408 words)

  
 IPY: International Polar Year   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Yukon College is a key partner in the “University of the Arctic” consortium of circumpolar institutes.
The project is in part an extension of the Yukon College educational mandate.
The College vision is to remain an integral part of Yukon society, producing data and knowledge that is disseminated to the public.
www.ipy.org /development/eoi/details.php?id=970   (1322 words)

  
 College Canada (Volume 4, Issue 2, 1999) - Research in Colleges and Institutes: Yukon College’s Northern Research ...
The Yukon and federal governments have joined forces to come up with answers on the possible impact of global warming on the Yukon’s environment and way of life.
The NRI was established in 1992 as the research unit of Yukon College.
The Northern Endowment Fund, established by the Yukon Territorial Government, allows the NRI to support scholarly research on northern topics in the humanities and the social, pure, and applied sciences through fellowships awarded each spring.
www.accc.ca /CollegeCanada/9899-4-2/globalwarming.htm   (332 words)

  
 Testing Services - Yukon College
Yukon College supervises paper-based exams and certification for colleges, universities and institutions across Canada, the States and Europe.
The College Placement test may be written at the Whitehorse campus any Monday morning (except holidays) at 9 a.m.
Yukon College provides invigilation / proctoring for students at other educational institutions.
www1.yukoncollege.yk.ca /testing   (424 words)

  
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Yukon College is the only institution providing postsecondary education and offers vocational, technical, academic upgrading and other programmes usually leading to a Certificate or Dip l oma, and some first- and second-year university transfer courses.
Yukon College is not a degree-granting institution, although it has full autonomy on admissions and all other academic matters.
Deg r ee programmes accredited by other universities are offered at Yukon College: Northern Native Teacher Training and Bachelor of Social Work, accredited by the University of Regina; Master of Public Administration and Master of Education accredited by the Un iversity of Alaska.
www.unesco.org /iau/onlinedatabases/systems_data/ca12.rtf   (1366 words)

  
 Yukon Archives - Tourism and Culture - Government of Yukon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Alaska Highway: A Yukon Perspective is a web exhibit covering the complex history of the construction, maintenance and use of the Alaska Highway and the Canol pipeline including information about the Northwest Staging Route and the Alaska Highway today.
The Yukon Archives is located next to the Yukon College at Yukon Place in Whitehorse.
Yukoners are encouraged to deposit business and society records, family papers, diaries, photographs, church and school records, political papers, and other memorabilia in the Archives for permanent preservation.
www.btc.gov.yk.ca /archives/index.html   (473 words)

  
 Yukon College Environmental Philosophy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Situated in a unique northern environment and surrounded by spectacular wilderness, Yukon College (Whitehorse) felt it was logical to include other environmental studies as part of recent programming initiatives.
The college's emphasis on "environmental philosophy" reflects the belief that its graduates will benefit from an understanding of environmentalism, environmental philosophy and competing perspectives on contemporary issues.
Yukon College believes that it is playing an increasingly important role in helping Yukoners and Canadians respond to a changing world...It believes that employees should have an appreciation of environmental thought, communication skills and the critical acumen necessary to make sound environmental decisions.
www.iisd.org /educate/learn/yukon.htm   (277 words)

  
 Yukon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yukon (official name) or Yukon Territory (French: Territoire du Yukon) or (often) the Yukon is one of Canada's northern territories, in the country's extreme northwest.
The next important event in the Yukon's history was the construction of the Alaska Highway during the Second World War, which, after its badly needed reconstruction by the Canadian Government in the late 1940s, opened up the territory to road traffic.
The Yukon was one of nine jurisdictions in Canada to offer same-sex marriage before the passage of Canada's Civil Marriage Act, along with Ontario, British Columbia, Quebec, Manitoba, Nova Scotia, Saskatchewan, Newfoundland and Labrador, and New Brunswick.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yukon   (3566 words)

  
 Newcomer's Guide - Home, Health, Family, Religion and Education   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Yukon College is the only post-secondary institution in the Yukon Territory.
Yukon College offers educational opportunities in many areas of study through its various divisions and its community campuses.
Yukon Learn has a collection of easy-to-read books and pamphlets as well as videos and audio tapes designed to help adults upgrade their skills.
www.yukonnewcomersguide.com /9.aspx   (877 words)

  
 Government of Yukon - Department of Education - Home Page
The Yukon government is pleased to announce the successful recruitment of two medical doctors to the Yukon medical community, thanks to a program designed to fast-track the immigration of skilled professionals.
The Government of Yukon today announced nearly $130,000 in funding for a workplace literacy project that is being made available to staff of Yukon First Nation governments.
The Government of Yukon announced today that the results of the 2004-05 Yukon Achievement Tests (YAT) are quite positive and have remained fairly constant in terms of average test scores from the last five years.
www.education.gov.yk.ca   (1291 words)

  
 Yukon College Library
The Yukon College Library is situated on the 2nd floor of Ayamdigut Campus commons wing.
Yukon College Library cooperates with other Yukon Libraries to provide interlibrary loan service and is part of Electronic Library Network, a consortium of post-secondary educational institution libraries in British Columbia.
Yukon College Library's main collection consists of approximately 36,000 volumes, as well as videos, audio-cassettes and CD-ROMs.
www.youseemore.com /yukoncollege/contentpages.asp?loc=1   (1091 words)

  
 McClellan: Before Boundaries: Peoples of Yukon/Alaska   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The conference was jointly sponsored by the Yukon Historical and Museums Association (YHMA), Yukon College, The University of Victoria's Public History Group, and the Alaska Historical Society.
I remember Yukon native elders organizing the telling of their old stories to me as if they were travelling a route through a country in much the same way that Crow once travelled through the world after he had made it, leaving his marks everywhere for humans to see.
As shown on the plate, and particularly relevant to this conference, is the upper White River-Skolai Pass area, the center of distribution for the Kletsan copper.
www.yukonalaska.com /yhma/public/mcclell.htm   (4620 words)

  
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Yukon College traces its history to the establishment of the Yukon Vocational and Technical Training Centre in 1963.
Yukon apprentices gain their on-the-job training with Yukon employers and obtain in-school training through Yukon College or other institutions arranged by Advanced Education.
Yukon students can also take the first part of a bachelor of business administration program at the college and complete the program, via distance education, through the University of Alaska.
www.cicic.ca /en/page.aspx?sortcode=2.20.24.27.27.28   (987 words)

  
 Yukon Community Profiles
The Dawson City Campus of Yukon College, Tr'odek Hatr'unohtan Zho (Klondike School House), works closely with the Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in and the Klondike Institute of Art and Culture (KIAC) to offer a variety of college and employment preparation courses.
In response to the community's requests and the labour market, the college has recently offered courses in carpentry, plumbing, office administration, accounting, computer studies, early childhood development, fisheries field technician, small engine repair, English and math as well as a variety of shorter courses.
KIAC and Yukon College have worked together for five years to offer a seven-month program called Arts for Employment that introduces students to various art-related disciplines.
www.yukoncommunities.yk.ca /communities/dawson/education   (280 words)

  
 Department of Economic Development - Yukon Research and Development Tax Credit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Yukon Research and Development Tax Credit is a refundable corporate and personal income tax credit of 15% or 20% (Item H) for eligible expenditures incurred bya corporation after June 30, 2000 or by an individual after December 31, 2000.
Individuals must be resident in the Yukon on the last day of the taxation year for which the credit is being claimed.
This requires that a corporation maintained a permanent establishment in the Yukon at some time during the taxation year to be eligible to apply for the credit.
www.economicdevelopment.gov.yk.ca /general/rdtaxcredit.html   (656 words)

  
 Innovation Cluster Website
The Yukon private sector, the Government of Yukon, Yukon College, the Yukon Chamber of Commerce and the National Research Council are committed to developing a “Yukon Cold Climate Innovation Cluster” in Whitehorse.
The Government of Yukon responded positively to the concept of a northern innovation cluster and made a commitment to study its viability in Whitehorse.
The study results indicate that it is feasible to locate and develop a cold climate innovation cluster headquartered in Yukon and that a prerequisite to developing a cluster is the creation of a cold climate research centre.
www.yukoncoldtech.com   (877 words)

  
 Yukon College - SchoolFinder   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Yukon College, as a creation of the territorial government, began in the 1960’s as the Yukon Vocational and Technical Training Centre.
Rising local demand for post-secondary education lead to the birth of Yukon College in 1983, which replaced the Training Centre.
In 1988, the College moved to its present campus in Whitehorse.
www.schoolfinder.com /about/cyuko12_c.asp   (61 words)

  
 YHMA Conference   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
On the 2 - 4 of June 1989, a conference dealing with the Yukon / Alaska / BC border and the issues surrounding this border was held in Whitehorse, YT, Canada.
The conference was jointly sponsored by the Yukon Historical & Museums Association, Yukon College, The University of Victoria's Public History Group, and the Alaska Historical Society.
Participants came from many areas within the Yukon and Alaska, as well as from other parts of Canada and the Lower 48, and ranged from northern Native Elders to professors from western and eastern universities.
www.yukonalaska.com /yhma/public/proc1989.htm   (547 words)

  
 Press Releases | Yukon Convention Bureau | Yukon College to Host Conference
Yukon College and Yukon Convention Bureau (YCB) are pleased to announce that the Tourism Educators Consortium (TEC) will host its 2005 annual conference in Whitehorse.
Hansen credits much of the success of the proposal to the Yukon Convention Bureau, particularly their tendering processes, expertise of the staff and the site inspection visit they conducted in April of last year with Mr.
For the Yukon to be successful as a meetings destination we need local businesses like Yukon College to go out and convince their colleagues to come to the Yukon”, said Paul Choquette, YCB President.
www.meetingsyukon.com /tec2005.html   (232 words)

  
 Yukon Arts Centre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Yukon Arts Centre opened in 1992, after a decade of intensive planning by a dedicated group of volunteers that worked with government, Yukon communities and businesses to achieve the facility we have today.
The Yukon Arts Centre is governed by a board of directors appointed by the Minister of Tourism and Culture, Yukon Government.
The Yukon Arts Centre is a non-profit organization with a mandate to present and develop the arts in the Yukon.
www.yukonartscentre.org /yac.htm   (536 words)

  
 Career-College.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
If you are attending an institution outside the Yukon, a travel allowance equivalent to the cost of one regular airfare per calendar year between Whitehorse and Vancouver or Edmonton is paid.
This travel allowance is to take you to your classes at the start of the academic year and return you to the Yukon after the academic year is complete.
Students who are not living in the Territory prior to the start of classes or students who do not return to the Yukon for the summer months, are not eligible to receive the travel allowance.
www.career-college.com /finance/yk2.htm   (308 words)

  
 College Woodwork Yukon Series, Macklem's, Toronto Ontario
The Yukon bed has board and batten detailing and is available in twin, double, queen and king sizes.
The Yukon Convertible crib grows with your child, functioning first as a crib, then as a daybed and finally as a full-size double bed.
With the purchase of wooden side rails, the Yukon Convertible Crib becomes a full-size double bed.
www.macklems.com /college-woodwork-yukon-series.htm   (190 words)

  
 Y011 Collective Agreement with Yukon College
Harassment of another employee or of a College client carrying out duties or providing goods, services, facilities, or accommodation constitutes a disciplinary infraction and will be dealt with severely.
For the purposes of this Article, notices and correspondences shall be between the President of the Yukon College Employees' Union and the President of Yukon College.
61.01 Except as may be otherwise mutually agreed between the employee and the College, a work produced by an employee for the purpose of advancing the attainment of the educational objectives of the College or produced with College resources shall be and remain the property of the College.
www.yeupsac.com /pages/Y011agreement-5.html   (2707 words)

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