“Men of Frontier Experience”: Yukoners, Frontier Masculinity, and the First World War

Abstract

During the First World War, the Dawson Daily News ac? vely produced a localized version of fron? er masculinity that was used to defi ne the manly characteris? cs of the Yukon’s soldiers. In editorials and stories, local ar? cula? ons of Anglo-Saxon fron? er masculinity connected to broader imperial tropes, but also adopted dis? nc? ve forms that refl ected how Yukoners imagined their par? cular iden? ? es. U? lizing this local newspaper coverage, this ar? cle explores how Yukoners understood masculinity, how they ? ed that masculinity to the war eff ort and how it shaped their experience of the war. This ar? cle is part of a special collec? on of papers originally presented at a conference on “The North and the First World War,” held May 2016 in Whitehorse, Yukon.