I’ve always kind of wondered why Whitehorse called Whitehorse and I finally found out that it is named after the White Horse Rapids on the Yukon River. Which were not easy to get around in the Yukon Gold Rush. The rapids were said to look like the manes of charging horses. Too bad we can’t go see them now, they built a hydro dam in 1959 and The White Horse Rapids are now the Schwatka Lake reservoir. I suppose hydro electricity is important but I personally would have loved to see those rapids.