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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.
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.
The Chilkoot Trail is a 33-mile (53 km) trail through the Coast Mountains that leads from Dyea,Alaska,in the United States,to Bennett,British Columbia,in Canada. It was a major access route from the coast to Yukon goldfields in the late 1890s. The trail became obsolete in 1899 when a railway was built from Dyea's neighbor port Skagway along the parallel White Pass trail.
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.
Carcross,originally known as Caribou Crossing,is an unincorporated community in Yukon,Canada,on Bennett Lake and Nares Lake. It is home to the Carcross/Tagish First Nation.
The Klondike Highway is a highway that runs from the Alaska Panhandle through the province of British Columbia and the territory of Yukon in Canada,linking the coastal town of Skagway,Alaska,to Dawson City,Yukon. Its route somewhat parallels the route used by prospectors in the 1898 Klondike Gold Rush.
Tagish Lake is a lake in Yukon and northern British Columbia,Canada. The lake is 119 kilometres (74 mi) long and averages 3.2 km (2 mi) wide with an area of 354.48 km2 (136.87 sq mi),about two thirds of which is in British Columbia. The average depth is 62 m (203 ft) and maximum depth is 307 m (1,007 ft).
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.
The Klondike River is a tributary of the Yukon River in Canada that gave its name to the Klondike Gold Rush and the Klondike region of the Yukon Territory. The Klondike River rises in the Ogilvie Mountains and flows into the Yukon River at Dawson City.
Forty Mile is best known as the oldest town in Canada’s Yukon. It was established in 1886 at the confluence of the Yukon and Fortymile rivers by prospectors and fortune hunters in search of gold. Largely abandoned during the nearby Klondike Gold Rush,the town site continued to be used by Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in. It is currently a historic site that is co-owned and co-managed by Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in and the Government of Yukon. Ch’ëdähdëk became part of the Tr’ondëk-Klondike UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2023,recording of the transformation of the landscape and the Indigenous adaptation to European colonization.
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.
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.
SS Klondike is the name of two sternwheelers,the second now a National Historic Site located in Whitehorse,Yukon. They ran freight between Whitehorse and Dawson City,along the Yukon River,the first from 1929 to 1936 and the second,an almost exact replica of the first,from 1937 to 1950.
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).
The Stewart River is a 533-kilometre (331 mi) tributary of Yukon River in the Yukon Territory of Canada. It originates in the Selwyn Mountains,which stand on the border between the Northwest Territories and the Yukon Territory. From there,the Stewart flows west,past the village of Mayo. The river is crossed by the Klondike Highway at the village of Stewart Crossing,and the highway parallels the river westward for about 56 kilometres (35 mi). After leaving the highway,the river travels southwest until it intersects the Yukon River 112 kilometres (70 mi) south of Dawson City. The mostly abandoned village of Stewart River is located at the mouth of the river.
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.
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