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A Year in Pictures

Friday December 23, 2011

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A selection of some of our favourite images from 2011.

YEARREVIEW001 (Ian Stewart/Yukon News) — 1 Firefighters hose down a burning truck at the corner of 2nd Avenue and Lambert Street. (Ian Stewart/Yukon News)

YEARREVIEW002 (Justin Kennedy/Yukon News) — 2 Dani Cole swims a few laps at the Lions Aquatic Centre. (Justin Kennedy/Yukon News)

YEARREVIEW003 (Justin Kennedy/Yukon News) — 3 Kalsey Mckinney snowboards in the Terrain Park at Mt. Sima. (Justin Kennedy/Yukon News)

YEARREVIEW004 (Mike Thomas/Yukon News) — 4 CBC Yukon celebrated Hockey Day in Canada by organizing a friendly game of road hockey on Third Avenue. (Mike Thomas/Yukon News)

YEARREVIEW005 (Murray Munn/Yukon News) — 5 A fox and a coyote frolic on the clay cliffs in Whitehorse. (Murray Munn/Yukon News)

YEARREVIEW006 (Kendra Haines/Yukon News) — 6 The Ross River Recreation Centre was destroyed by fire. (Kendra Haines/Yukon News)

YEARREVIEW007 (Justin Kennedy/Yukon News) — 7 The Annual Burning Away the Winter Blues event. (Justin Kennedy/Yukon News)

YEARREVIEW008 (Mike Thomas/Yukon News) — 8 Construction workers begin cleaning up a pile of fallen trusses after a windstorm in Porter Creek. (Mike Thomas/Yukon News)

YEARREVIEW009 (Mike Thomas/Yukon News) — 9 A Canada goose joins a flock of Trumpeter swans in Tagish. (Mike Thomas/Yukon News)

YEARREVIEW010 (Mike Thomas/Yukon News) — 10 Conservative candidate Ryan Leef defeated incumbent Larry Bagnell by 132 votes in the federal election. (Mike Thomas/Yukon News)

YEARREVIEW011 (Mike Thomas/Yukon News) — 11 A prayer circle is formed during an anti-violence rally across from the Council of Yukon First Nations office. (Mike Thomas/Yukon News)

YEARREVIEW012 (Mike Thomas/Yukon News) — 12 Kieran Halliday takes an alternative route to get ahead of the crowd on the Robert Campbell Bridge at the start of the annual Run For Mom fundraiser. (Mike Thomas/Yukon News)

YEARREVIEW013 (Mike Thomas/Yukon News) — 13 A mother fox and her pups hang out by their den beside a shipping container at Pacific Northwest Freight Systems in Whitehorse. (Mike Thomas/Yukon News)

YEARREVIEW014 (Ian Stewart/Yukon News) — 14 Claire Ness has returned to the Yukon after several years of circus training in Toronto and Montreal. (Ian Stewart/Yukon News)

YEARREVIEW015 (Ian Stewart/Yukon News) — 15 Postal workers walk the picket line at the Whitehorse depot on Two-Mile Hill. (Ian Stewart/Yukon News)

YEARREVIEW016 (Ian Stewart/Yukon News) — 16 A shi-tzu rests on his pillow during the Yukon Kennel Club's dog show. (Ian Stewart/Yukon News)

YEARREVIEW017 (Ian Stewart/Yukon News) — 17 Locked out Canada Post workers and supporters from the Public Service Alliance of Canada protest the government's back-to-work legislation outside the Elijah Smith building. (Ian Stewart/Yukon News)

YEARREVIEW019 (Ian Stewart/Yukon News) — 18 Steve Cardiff's seat in the Yukon Legislature is adorned with flowers. Cardiff was killed in an automobile accident on the South Klondike Highway. (Ian Stewart/Yukon News)

YEARREVIEW020 (Ian Stewart/Yukon News) — 19 RCMP Staff Sgt. Roger Lockwood pulls a woman from the Yukon River at Miles Canyon. The woman jumped into the river after her dog. Both were swept into the canyon, where the woman clung to a rock awaiting rescue. They were both unharmed. (Ian Stewart/Yukon News)

YEARREVIEW021 (Alistair Maitland/Yukon News) — 20 Ateca Mills dances to Bushwacker at the Atlin Music Festival. (Alistair Maitland/Yukon News)

YEARREVIEW022 (Mike Thomas/Yukon News) — 21 A desk and bench sit in an open field in Fort Selkirk. An official plaque was unveiled to commemorate the former settlement as a Yukon historic site. (Mike Thomas/Yukon News)

YEARREVIEW023 (Alistair Maitland/Yukon News) — 22 Trondek Hwech'in elder Maria Sawrenko leads the dancing for the Kaska Drummers at the Dawson City Music Festival. (Alistair Maitland/Yukon News)

YEARREVIEW024 (Ian Stewart/Yukon News) — 23 Doug McLeod of Vancouver relaxes at Robert Service Campground in Whitehorse. (Ian Stewart/Yukon News)

YEARREVIEW025 (Ian Stewart/Yukon News) — 24 Artist Philippe Leblond stands atop his dome made of bicycle-wheel rims in his front yard in Riverdale. (Ian Stewart/Yukon News)

YEARREVIEW026 (Mike Thomas/Yukon News) — 25 Dozens of participants start the zombie walk on Main Street. (Mike Thomas/Yukon News)

YEARREVIEW027 (Mike Thomas/Yukon News) — 26 Ryan Agar finds a firm grip while rock climbing in Whitehorse. (Mike Thomas/Yukon News)

YEARREVIEW028 (Mike Thomas/Yukon News) — 27 The sun shines onto Tagish Lake's Bove Island near Carcross. (Mike Thomas/Yukon News)

YEARREVIEW029 (Ian Stewart/Yukon News) — 28 Claire Ness shares some tall tales with people on Main Street during the Culture Days launch. (Ian Stewart/Yukon News)

YEARREVIEW030 (Justin Kennedy/Yukon News) — 29 A clear sky shines over a cabin near Nadahini Mountain in BC in the Haines Pass. (Justin Kennedy/Yukon News)

YEARREVIEW031 (Mike Thomas/Yukon News) — 30 Premier Darrell Pasloski celebrates the Yukon Party's third consecutive majority. (Mike Thomas/Yukon News)

YEARREVIEW032 (Ian Stewart/Yukon News) — 31 Students from Vanier Catholic Secondary School work together to move the big-A during a Grade 8 team-building retreat at the Mt. McIntyre Recreation Centre. (Ian Stewart/Yukon News)

YEARREVIEW033 (Ian Stewart/Yukon News) — 32 The Northern Masquerade takes over the Yukon Transportation Museum. (Ian Stewart/Yukon News)

YEARREVIEW034 (Mike Thomas/Yukon News) — 33 A Mark Preston piece is reflected on the wall inside the Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre. (Mike Thomas/Yukon News)

YEARREVIEW035 (Mike Thomas/Yukon News) — 34 A helicopter is used to help install Mt. Sima's new chairlift. (Mike Thomas/Yukon News)

YEARREVIEW036 (Ian Stewart/Yukon News) — 35 Students from Yukon College's trades program hoist a 8.5-metre birch bark canoe into its display space on Wednesday. The canoe was built by Dawson City artist Halin de Repentigny. (Ian Stewart/Yukon News)

YEARREVIEW037 (Peter Mather/Yukon News) — 36 A grizzly cub watches fishermen reel in salmon from the Chilkat River in Haines, Alaska. (Peter Mather/Yukon News)

YEARREVIEW038 (Ian Stewart/Yukon News) — 37 Miss Nomi entertains the crowd at LePage Park on Saturday during Winterval celebrations. (Ian Stewart/Yukon News)

YEARREVIEW039 (Ian Stewart/Yukon News) — 38 Tensley Johnston watches the Yukon Golden Girls perform at his 100th birthday party. (Ian Stewart/Yukon News)

YEARREVIEW040 (Ian Stewart/Yukon News) — 39 Whitehorse gets hit with a blizzard. (Ian Stewart/Yukon News)

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