The Canadian Bank of Commerce

established in Dawson City about 1898. This is where "The Bard of the North" - Robert W. Service once worked as a teller.

 

"There are strange things done in the midnight sun

By the men who moil for gold;

The Arctic trails have their secret tales

That would make your blood run cold;

The Northern Lights have seen queer sights,

But the queerest they ever did see

Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge

I cremated Sam McGee"

 

(the excerpt of one of his most famous poem "The Cremation of Sam MacGee" www.robertwservice.com/modules/library/article.php?articl... )

 

November 2005

Done