Yukon is a federal territory in Canada, represented in Parliament by one MP and one Senator.
The White Pass and Yukon Route (WP&Y, WP&YR) (reporting mark WPY) is a Canadian and U.S. Class II 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge railroad linking the port of Skagway, Alaska, with Whitehorse, the capital of Yukon. The railroad began construction in 1898 during the Klondike Gold Rush.
Charlie Chaplin’s The Gold Rush shows a shot of prospectors in one ridiculously long line up the mountain to get to the gold fields. This seems like a joke, but is based on the Chilkoot Pass in the Yukon Gold Rush.
Charlie Chaplin’s half brother, George Wheeler Dryden, was the father of Spencer Dryden, a member of the rock band Jefferson Airplane.
The first licensed civil airplane in Canada was a Curtis JN-4 “Canuck”, licence number G-CAAA, operating out of Regina, Saskatchewan.
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Charles Lindbergh’s Spirit of St. Louis had the registration number N-X-211.
The song “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” was written for the movie “Meet Me in St. Louis.”
The song “We Need A Little Christmas” comes from the Jerry Herman musical “Mame”, where it was popularized on Broadway by Angela Lansbury. Mame sings it to cheer up her household right after losing her fortune in the 1929 stock market crash.
Author Larry L. King once remarked “you can put a song about Christmas anywhere in a musical” and to prove it, he wrote a scene in the Best Little Whorehouse in Texas where, as the “girls” prepare to leave Miss Mona’s Chicken Ranch they sing “Hard Candy Christmas,” though Christmas has never been mentioned until that point.
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Bolcheriet is a Danish hard candy factory and store, with shops in Løkken & Skagen.
Sarris Candies, Inc. is a specialty chocolate and candies company based in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania (former home to singers Perry Como and Bobby Vinton), approximately 18 miles (29 km) southwest of Pittsburgh. It was founded in 1960 by Frank Sarris. (You MUST go there)
15 miles from Canonsburg is Ringgold High School in Monongahela, PA where the football stadium is named after its most famous alum, Joe Montana, class of 1974. In 2006 Montana was deemed the number one clutch QB of all time by Sports Illustrated magazine.
Ah, sorry, I figured it out. It was late last night when I posted that.
In 1993, the town of Ismay, Montana changed its name to Joe, Montana as a publicity stunt organized by the Kansas City Chiefs, where Joe Montana was playing.
There is, however, a real town called George, Wasthington.
Ismay is a town in Custer County, Montana, United States. The population was 19 at the 2010 census. The town’s name is an amalgamation of Isabella and May, the names of the daughters of Albert J Earling, division superintendent (later president) of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway.
(I just had to look that up to see if there was any connection to the Bruce Ismay of Titanic / White Star. There isn’t.)
The Mauch Chunk Switchback Railway or Mauch Chunk & Summit Hill Railway, was built in 1827 by the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company (LC&N) and the second operational United States railroad. It later became the first roller-coaster ride in the U.S.