Organizers are pleased with the turnout at a highway-side rally promoting Canada-United States friendship held in the White Pass on July 5.
“We had a good turnout from Skagway and considering how far people had to drive, the Whitehorse representation was strong as well,” Skagway resident Wendy Anderson wrote in an email to the Yukon News.
Drone photos taken at the rally show about 50 people lined up along the highway guardrail about 23 highway kilometers from Skagway waving Canadian and American flags.
Anderson led the organization of the event which was called “Skagway and the Yukon: Friends and Neighbours.”
It was part of a larger series of rallies held the same day in communities along the entire Canada-U.S. border. The associated rallies adopted the name “Elbows Up,” taken from what has become a common slogan in Canada amid President Donald Trump’s tariffs and annexation threats.
“We have always cooperated together and worked together in this part of the world. And that is the message that I want to get across, is that that’s what’s important right now, is that we as Northerners stick together,” Anderson told the News prior to the rally.
Contact Jim Elliot at jim.elliot@yukon-news.com
About 50 people attended a rally promoting Canada-United States friendship on the international border near Skagway on July 5. (Austin Taylor Photo)
About 50 people attended a rally promoting Canada-United States friendship on the international border near Skagway on July 5. (Bill Glude Photo)
