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• Resource gateway (3)
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• A2a absence (3)

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Sources

• ● Canadian Transportation Agency · Rail Certificates of Fitness -- "If a person wants to construct or operate a freight or passenger railway under federal jurisdiction, they must apply to the Canadian Transportation Agency for a certificate of fitness." Sets minimum liability insurance from $25 million to $1,000 million per occurrence by dangerous-goods volume, and states "Existing certificate of fitness holders must demonstrate, on an annual basis, that they meet the liability insurance requirements in order to remain eligible to hold their certificate of fitness." (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-22)
• ● Canadian Transportation Agency · Rail Transportation -- the Agency's own statement of its role: issuing the certificate of fitness needed to construct or operate a federal freight or passenger railway; monitoring federal railway companies for required liability insurance; making and enforcing railway regulations; approving railway line construction. (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-22)
• ● Canadian Transportation Agency · Federal railway companies registry (JSON API, linked from the registry's own landing page as "Available Data Formats: JSON") — the entry for id 53: nameEn "Pacific and Arctic Railway and Navigation Company/British Columbia Yukon Railway Company/British Yukon Railway Company Limited carrying on business as or proposing to carry on business as White Pass & Yukon Route"; railwayTypeNameEn "Passenger Services"; railwayStatusNameEn "Active"; latestRulingNumber "R-2025-174"; latestIssueDateString "2025-10-31"; latestCOFNumber "97023-1". The company appears once in the registry's full list of 36 federally regulated railway companies; no entry for "Alaska", "A2A" or "Alberta Railway" appears anywhere in that same list. (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-22)
• ● Canadian Transportation Agency · White Pass & Yukon Route — Certificate of Fitness (Certificate Number 97023-1, issued 25 November 1997): "operate a railway between White Pass Summit, British Columbia, and Whitehorse, Yukon Territory"; issued under "subsection 92(1) of the Canada Transportation Act, S.C., 1996, c. 10"; authorised entities "Pacific and Arctic Railway and Navigation Company, British Columbia Yukon Railway Company, British Yukon Railway Company Limited". (published 1997-11-25 · checked 2026-09-22)
• ● Transport Canada · Projects funded by the National Trade Corridors Fund -- Nunavut entries include "Grays Bay Road and Port Project: Phase 1," buyer Kitikmeot Inuit Association (KIA), $21,600,000, described as "Initiating the construction of the Grays Bay Road and Port Project, a 230 km all-season connecting road," plus performing an environmental assessment and geotechnical investigations, preparing the final design, and securing regulatory permits; "Kivaliq Trade Corridor," Government of Nunavut, $4,500,000, an environmental assessment for all-weather road corridors between neighbouring Kivalliq communities (a separate road scheme from the Kivalliq Hydro-Fibre Link); "Project to Establish a Deep-Water Port in the Hamlet of Qikiqtarjuaq," Government of Nunavut, $40,000,000, a new deep-water port to support the Davis Strait and Baffin Bay offshore fishing industry; "Replacement of Air Terminal Buildings," Government of Nunavut, $34,700,000; "Rankin Inlet Airport Terminal Building Expansion," Government of Nunavut, $45,500,000; "Mobile Equipment Shelters and Cargo Facilities for Seven Nunavut Airports," Department of Economic Development and Transportation, Government of Nunavut, $30,000,000; and further airport and airside projects for First Air Operations and Calm Air International LP. No entry for Nunavut in the funded-projects table is a railway. (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-22)
• ● Transport Canada · Port Authorities — "There are currently 17 CPAs established under the Canada Marine Act (CMA) (Vancouver Fraser, Nanaimo, Prince Rupert, Port Alberni, Thunder Bay, Toronto, Windsor, Hamilton-Oshawa, Trois-Rivières, Sept-Îles, Saguenay, Québec, Montréal, St. John's, Saint John, Halifax, and Belledune)". No Yukon or territorial entry appears. (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-22)
• ● White Pass & Yukon Route · Company Info — "The $10 million project was the product of British financing, American engineering and Canadian contracting." "The 110 mile WP&YR Railroad was completed with the driving of the golden spike on July 29, 1900 in Carcross, Yukon, connecting the deep water port of Skagway, Alaska, to Whitehorse, Yukon, and beyond to northwest Canada and interior Alaska." "The WP&YR suspended operations in 1982 when Yukon's mining industry collapsed due to low mineral prices. The railway was reopened in 1988 as a seasonal tourism operation." (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-22)
• ● White Pass & Yukon Route · Excursions — the "Whitehorse-Skagway One Day Combo" is described as covering "only 28 miles traveled by rail; primarily motorcoach transport", with a stop in Skagway; the "Carcross & Bennett Connections" and "Fraser Connections" packages likewise combine rail with a motorcoach leg to reach Whitehorse. Excursions that stay on rail throughout — the Bennett Scenic Journey, White Pass Summit Excursion, Steam Summit Loop Excursion, Fraser One Way Service, and Carcross One Way Service — run only between Skagway and Fraser, Bennett or Carcross; none reaches Whitehorse by rail. (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-22)
• ● White Pass & Yukon Route · WP&YR Facts — "The rails were three feet apart on a 10-foot-wide road bed"; the line totals "one hundred and ten miles of track" from Skagway to Bennett; the route "climbs from sea level in Skagway to almost 3000 feet at the summit in just 20 miles"; "On May 28, 1898 construction began" and "by July 6, 1899 construction reached Lake Bennett", with the final spike driven 29 July 1900 in Carcross; the railway "reopened in 1988 to operate as a narrow gauge excursion railroad". (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-22)
• ● White Pass & Yukon Route · Klondike Holdings LLC — "White Pass & Yukon Route was purchased by Klondike Holdings, LLC on August 1, 2018." "Klondike Holdings, LLC is an ownership group formed of majority partner Survey Point Holdings and its affiliates and long time partners based in Seattle along with minority partner Carnival PLC." (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-22)
• ● Government of Yukon · Bid on a government contract — "To bid on projects, you'll need to register for a new account on Yukon bids&tenders"; "You can search all Government of Yukon tenders posted after August 18, 2020, on Yukon bids&tenders"; "For tenders posted before August 18, 2020, refer to the Tender Management System (TMS)"; links to https://yukon.bidsandtenders.ca/. (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-22)
• ● Government of Yukon · Yukon bids&tenders — "Welcome to the Government of Yukon Bid Opportunities Website ... This site allows businesses interested in bidding on Government of Yukon contracts to create a vendor account." The bid-opportunities table ("Government of Yukon bid opportunities are listed below") is rendered by client-side JavaScript. (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-22)
• ● Government of Yukon · Department of Highways and Public Works — "The Department of Highways and Public Works is responsible for ensuring safe and efficient public highways, airstrips, buildings and information systems." Lists divisions including Corporate Services and the Procurement Support Centre, which "advertises and distributes Government of Yukon public tenders" (phone 867-667-5385, toll-free 1-800-661-0408 extension 5385, fax 867-393-6245); a quicklink leads to "Bid on a government contract". No railway is named anywhere on the page. (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-22)
• ● Government of Yukon · Learn about the Yukon Resource Gateway Program — "The Yukon Resource Gateway Program supports infrastructure upgrades of existing roads in the Yukon." Nine project components across eight Traditional Territories: Carmacks Bypass (Complete), Robert Campbell Highway (km 114 to 171), Robert Campbell Highway (km 354 to 414), Silver Trail, Dempster Highway, Nahanni Range Road, Casino Road, Freegold Road, North Canol Road. "The program is currently valued at $398.4 million": "Up to $247.3 million from the Government of Canada", "Up to $124.5 million from the Government of Yukon", "Currently $26.4 million from the mining industry"; "The program's funding expires in March 2031." The Canada-Yukon contribution agreement "was formally signed in 2021" after "a project application amendment in 2019"; "In 2025, it was amended to include the Dempster Highway as a project component." (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-22)