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Mount Lorne is a hamlet in Canada's Yukon. The hamlet is considered a local advisory area with an advisory council providing local government. [1]

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Mount Lorne is located just south of Whitehorse, comprising rural residential areas along the South Klondike Highway, the Annie Lake Road and connecting sideroads. It is part of the Whitehorse Census Agglomeration. Eighty-seven per cent of the population is non-aboriginal.

Demographics

Federal census population history of Mount Lorne
YearPop.±%
19866    
1991 316+5166.7%
1996 399+26.3%
2001 379−5.0%
2006 370−2.4%
2011 408+10.3%
2016 437+7.1%
2021 468+7.1%
Source: Statistics Canada
[2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Mt. Lorne had a population of 468 living in 222 of its 246 total private dwellings, a change of

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60°26′20″N134°55′30″W / 60.43889°N 134.92500°W / 60.43889; -134.92500 (Mount Lorne)