Sheila, Brian, Suzen, Steve, Eric and I went out for dinner at the Wildcat Cafe, one of Yk's earliest buildings built in 1937 and a meeting place for the area's pioneers pre-WWII. Meals cost a dollar and the menu included caribou and lake trout. The restaurant closed in 1951 and with the collective efforts of volunteers and businesses, reopened in 1979. Located in Old Town, the Wildcat is in a log cabin. Brian and I had buffalo burgers, Sheila and Eric had arctic char fettuccine, and Suzen and Steve shared Muskabou poutine (muskox and caribou).
To round the evening off we headed to the Gold Range bar, known as "The Strange Range", having housed a bar, strip joint, boarding house and cafe since it opened in 1958. The Gold Range features in Mordecai Richler's novel Solomon Gursky was Here and Aritha Van Herk's novel The Tent Peg. After a couple of beers and little dancing we head home before midnight.
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