Tiny Teslin Post never saw it coming. In July 1942, the soldiers of the 93rd Engineers, with their bulldozers and trucks and graders suddenly roared out of the woods beside Teslin Lake. The soldiers bulldozed at and around the tiny village and its 130 citizens, dropping trees in every direction. Link to another post …
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George Johnston of Teslin
George Johnston lived in Teslin, Yukon Territory. George recorded Teslin on film. And George provided Teslin with the “Teslin Taxi”. Teslin Post In 1940 the tiny village housed about 130 Tlingit natives and a few white homesteaders and prospectors. Its name came from the Tlingit word meaning long narrow water. A Tlingit Elder, George documented …