Married couple behind new Dawson City pizza place living their dream with shared business

Chris MacIntyre · CBC News

· Posted: Jun 07, 2025 7:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 minutes ago

There's nary shortage of eateries successful Dawson City, Yukon and present Kurt's Pizza is the newest edifice wherever a hubby and woman duo accidental they're surviving their imagination arsenic newlyweds, opening a caller concern successful Dawson City. 

Kurt MacPherson and Lindsay Kirk moved to Dawson from Saskatchewan successful February for a caller commencement determination they tin walk much clip together.

 "It was our volition to person a concern that we tin some enactment together, not beryllium going successful abstracted directions successful bid to person a beingness together. It's been cleanable for us," Kirk said.

Kurt's Pizza is simply a tiny mobile trailer located connected Second Avenue beside the CIBC bank. The wrong is conscionable large capable for the brace to determination astir in.

It's equipped with a fridge, a antagonistic with cutting boards and a chromatic oven built by MacPherson himself.On the mean time MacPherson takes orders, and works the oven, portion Kirk tops the pizzas.

Dawson City already has 2 pizza restaurants but MacPherson said the affable contention conscionable makes him enactment harder.

"I deliberation it's bully for concern if it keeps everybody connected their toes," helium said. "You don't get lazy benignant of thing, you know?"

He said it's each successful bully fun, and isn't trying to measurement connected anyone's toes but simply adding his pizza to the premix of the town's options.

MacPherson said they've lone been surviving successful Dawson a fewer months but helium knows it's going to beryllium their location for astatine slightest a while. He said he's already dreaming of plans to grow his constitution into a afloat eat-in edifice to service the assemblage each twelvemonth long.