The Gold Range
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The Gold Range is in Yellowknife, Canada. The Gold Range Hotel is notorious across Canada's arctic. It is a must-see for all. It was built on the site of The Veterans Hotel, which burnt in 1956. The Gold Range is commonly known as "The Strange Range". The hotel has been a rough and tumble bar, strip joint, boarding house and cafe complex since it opened in 1958.
In 1977 Sam Yurkiw purchased The Gold Range. In 1988 The Gold Range sold more beer than any other bar in Canada according to its former general manager, Harvey Bourgeois. In 2007 The Gold Range was sold to an Edmonton businessman named Jay Park. The Gold Range is on 50th Street. Due to the recent uproar of drug use 50th Street the string of bars on Range Street has become one of the most popular and adventurous streets in Yellowknife, and is a must-see for tourists.
[edit] In popular culture
In Mordecai Richler's 1989 novel Solomon Gursky Was Here, the protagonist Moses Berger makes several visits to the Gold Range during his trips to Yellowknife.
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