Robert Service Cabin
The log cabin where “Bard of the Yukon” Robert Service lived from 1909 to 1912, with poetry readings in summer.
Robert Service was a bank clerk working in the Yukon, famous for narrative poems about the gold rush such as “The Cremation of Sam McGee” and “The Shooting of Dan McGrew”. He earned the nickname “Bard of the Yukon”. From 1909 to 1912 he lived in this two-room log cabin on Eighth Avenue, now furnished as it was in his day. Parks Canada manages the cabin, which is open to visitors in summer and occasionally hosts poetry readings. It sits at the foot of a hillside south of town, next to the Jack London Museum, so the two can be visited together.
Opening hours
Open in summer (hours set by Parks Canada)
Nearby sights
- Jack London Museum & Cabin
- Diamond Tooth Gerties Gambling Hall
- Dawson City Museum
- Crocus Bluff
- Sourtoe Cocktail at Downtown Hotel
- Old Post Office
- Palace Grand Theatre
- Dawson Historical Complex