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Watch CG Kids online: Episode 12 Whitehorse: A City Built by Gold

Cat and Sid learn how history and geography blend in the harsh wilderness surrounding Whitehorse, Yukon. Eldon thinks that owning Alaska would make the Yukon Territory not only bigger, but better, and decides to send a polite fax to the United States. When the fax is smudged during transmition, Eldon fears that he has accidentally declared a war. Meanwhile, Cat and Sid are in Whitehorse, the capital city of the Yukon Territory. They climb aboard the S.S. Klondike National Historic Site of Canada with Heritage Manager and Parks Canada Interpreter, Dan Verhalle to discover what life in the Yukon was like in 1937. Next, Sid and Cat head even farther back in time at the Beringia Interpretive Centre. With the help of Sharon Ulrich, our adventurers learn about the oldest documented human community in North America, the Yukon's Bluefish Caves. Our kid expert, Shaylene, teaches Sid and Cat how to take down a wooly mammoth with an atlatl. Finally, they spend a day with Greig Bell and his Grade 10 students at Wood Street School. They are part of an "experiential science program," earning school credits while out in the wilderness learning about geography, teamwork and the environment. Today, they even get Sid and Cat to brave a rock wall and a zip-line! Speaking of brave, will Eldon get up courage to answer the phone when the White House keeps calling about his fax? Find out on this episode of CG Kids.

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