Year: 1977
The plates for 1977 are lightweight steel, painted white with red lettering. The backs of the plates are painted white. These plates have long, oval slots. The plates with the goldpanner have a "nugget" of gold paint in the gold pan; the goldpanner is embossed.
Passenger: xnnn
These plates had one letter followed by three digits. The first letter indicated the location where the plate was issued, the same as in 1976.
Commercial
There were several varieties of commercial plates for this year:
- CMn CMnn CMnnn CMnnnn-series for commercial vehicles not covered by some specialized type of plate
- LVn LVnn-series for livery (taxi) vehicles
- RYn RYnn-series for recovery vehicles (tow trucks)
- BUSn BUSnn BUSnnn-series for buses
- PSVn PSVnn PSVnnn-series for public service vehicles (PSVs). What are PSVs?
- RESn RESnn RESnnn-series for restricted vehicles. The nature of the restriction is not well understood. Some indications are that restricted vehicles were a class of PSVs restricted to operation only on truck routes, or perhaps restricted to carrying only certain types of cargo. More research required!
- FTn FTnn FTnnn-series for through freighter (freighter-through) trucks
Government
Yukon government: Gnnnn
The Yukon government black-on-orange plates (long slots) were used from 1965 until they were superceded by the Gxx·n series in 1982 and the YTGnnn series in 1985.
Federal government: Xn Xnn Xnnn Xnnnn Xn·nnn
Federal (dominion) government vehicles carried dark grey plates with green lettering from 1951 to 1982. Some lettering is turquoise due to a bad paint batch. Some with four-digit numbers had a dot between the first and second digits.
Dealer: DEn DEnn DEnnn
Motorcycle
Rental
Snow machine
Trailer
Radio Amateur: VE8xx VE8xxx
Sample: 0000
