Pretty Houses. Dawson City And Nuuk Make The Inhospitable Frozen North Look Like A Welcoming, Riotous Flower Garden

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Cute Little Colorful Towns In Canada & Greenland 

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Dawson City, Yukon 

Pastel buildings in Dawson City, Yukon in Canada first began when colorful paints were shipped up north after being rejected elsewhere. Even today, the use of yellows, blues and other colors on Dawson City buildings is so common that Holland America painted its hotels a classically Yukon rainbow hue – so they  would fit in. 

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Nuuk, Greenland 

The photos out of Greenland show an incredibly colorful town, with pastel colors on all the buildings. It seems that there's a reason. The choice of color for a building in Greenland originally stemmed from a color-coding system, over a hundred years ago.

For example, churches were red -- and so was the house of the church priest and other people related to the church. Hospitals and the homes of doctors and nurses were all yellow. 

Today, the people of Nuuk paint their homes whatever color they wish. 

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