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The Klondike is a region of the territory of Yukon,in northwestern Canada. It lies around the Klondike River,a small river that enters the Yukon River from the east at Dawson City. The area is merely an informal geographic region,and has no function to the territory as any kind of administrative region. It is located in the traditional territory of the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in First Nation.
Yukon is the smallest and westernmost of Canada's three territories. It is the most densely populated territory in Canada,with a population of 46,704 as of 2024,though it has a smaller population than all provinces. Whitehorse,the territorial capital,is the largest settlement in any of the three territories.
The Klondike Gold Rush was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of Yukon,in north-western Canada,between 1896 and 1899. Gold was discovered there by local miners on August 16,1896;when news reached Seattle and San Francisco the following year,it triggered a stampede of prospectors. Some became wealthy,but the majority went in vain. It has been immortalized in films,literature,and photographs.
Piers McDonald,OC is a Yukon politician and businessman. Born in Kingston,Ontario,McDonald,originally a miner by profession,is a long-time MLA,Cabinet minister,and the fifth premier of Yukon. He was leader of the Yukon New Democratic Party from 1995 to 2000.
Dawson City,officially the City of Dawson,is a city in the Canadian territory of Yukon. It is inseparably linked to the Klondike Gold Rush (1896–1899). Its population was 1,577 as of the 2021 census,making it the second-largest city in Yukon.
White Pass,also known as the Dead Horse Trail,is a mountain pass through the Boundary Ranges of the Coast Mountains on the border of the U.S. state of Alaska and the province of British Columbia,Canada. It leads from Skagway,Alaska,to the chain of lakes at the headwaters of the Yukon River.
Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park is a national historical park operated by the National Park Service that seeks to commemorate the Klondike Gold Rush of the late 1890s. Though the gold fields that were the ultimate goal of the stampeders lay in the Yukon Territory,the park comprises staging areas for the trek there and the routes leading in its direction. There are four units,including three in Municipality of Skagway Borough,Alaska and a fourth in the Pioneer Square National Historic District in Seattle,Washington.
Keish,also known as James Mason and by the nickname Skookum Jim Mason,was a member of the Tagish First Nation in what became the Yukon Territory of Canada. He was born near Bennett Lake,on what is now the Yukon–British Columbia border. He lived in Caribou Crossing,now Carcross,Yukon.
The 1996 Yukon general election was held on September 30,1996 to elect the seventeen members of the 29th Yukon Legislative Assembly in Yukon Territory,Canada. The governing Yukon Party,a conservative party,was defeated by the social democratic New Democratic Party (NDP). The NDP formed a new majority government of the territory with 11 seats. Party leader Piers McDonald became Government Leader. The Yukon Party and the centrist Yukon Liberal Party each won three seats,although Liberal leader Ken Taylor failed to be elected.
Klondike is an electoral district which returns a member to the Legislative Assembly of Yukon in Canada. One of Yukon's eight rural ridings,it is also the oldest riding in Yukon,first established in 1905. The riding includes Dawson City and its environs,as well as Eagle Plains.
Peter William Jenkins was a Canadian politician,who served as deputy premier and health minister in the territorial government of the Yukon,and as mayor of Dawson City.
Kluane is an electoral district which returns a member to the Legislative Assembly of the Canadian territory of Yukon. It is named after Kluane National Park,which is within the riding. It is one of the Yukon's eight rural districts.
The history of the Yukon covers the period from the arrival of Paleo-Indians through the Beringia land bridge approximately 20,000 years ago. In the 18th century,Russian explorers began to trade with the First Nations people along the Alaskan coast,and later established trade networks extending into Yukon. By the 19th century,traders from the Hudson's Bay Company were also active in the region. The region was administered as a part of the North-Western Territory until 1870,when the United Kingdom transferred the territory to Canada and it became the North-West Territories.
Steve Nordick is a Canadian politician,who represented the rural Yukon electoral district of Klondike in the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 2006 to 2011. He is a member of the Yukon Party.
Steamboats on the Yukon River played a role in the development of Alaska and Yukon. Access to the interior of Alaska and Yukon was hindered by large mountains and distance,but the wide Yukon River provided a feasible route. The first steamers on the lower Yukon River were work boats for the Collins Overland Telegraph in 1866 or 1867,with a small steamer called Wilder. The mouth of the Yukon River is far to the west at St. Michael and a journey from Seattle or San Francisco covered some 4,000 miles (6,400 km).
David Andrew Millar is a former Canadian politician,who represented the electoral district of Klondike in the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 1992 to 1996.
Sidney Alexander "Sandy" Silver is a Canadian politician,who served as the ninth premier of Yukon from 2016 to 2023. He was first elected to the Yukon Legislative Assembly in the 2011 election,and was re-elected in 2016. He represents the electoral district of Klondike and previously served as Leader of the Yukon Liberal Party.
Tatchun was an electoral district which returned an MLA to the Legislative Assembly of the Yukon Territory in Canada. It was created in 1978 out of the ridings of Klondike and Pelly River. It was abolished in 1992 when it was amalgamated with the riding of Mayo to form the riding of Mayo-Tatchun.
Mayo was an electoral district which returned an MLA to the Legislative Assembly of the Yukon Territory in Canada. It was created in 1928,at a time when it was one of three districts who elected advisors to the Yukon Territorial Council. The more contemporary,final iteration of the riding was created from an amalgamation of the riding with part of the riding of Klondike. It was abolished in 1992 when it was amalgamated with the riding of Tatchun to form the riding of Mayo-Tatchun.
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