Welcoming Reception, Energy & Mines 2006

Last night, the Yukon - and Archie's Dept - hosted a welcoming reception for conference participants. It was held at the Transportation Museum. As Archie said in his speech, the Yukon Territory is all about transportation. As an aside: did you know they have an airplane hanging from the museum's ceiling that is the sister to the one Linbergh flew to Europe, back in the day?

Anyway, welcoming speeches were made by Archie, Dennis Fentie and the fella from Ottawa, Gary Lunn (Federal Minister of Natural Resources). Minister Lunn could not pronounce Premier Fentie's surname (some kind of weird suffix), and mentioned that Whitehorse is at Mile 681 on the Alaska Highway... However, apart from those problems, his speech was impeccable - and short.

I learned one important thing (aside from that airplane): it takes a lot of organization and work to put on a national conference of this order. The EMR people deserve kudoes for this. The last time Yukon hosted this event was in 1992.

The food was great. It was produced by High Country Inn (which is not paying me to tell you this. )