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	Yukon Territories History and Culture
		But most Yukon First Nations people were able to continue their semi-nomadic subsistence lifestyle through this period, incorporating trapping and trading into their yearly rounds.
		Fort Yukon, at the mouth of the Porcupine River, was considered to be in American territory.
		The easily extracted placer gold was depleted by the early 1900s and the Yukon's population dropped to 8,512 by 1911.
	yukon.pinnacle-travel.org /history-culture.htm (1792 words)

	Yukon - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Yukon or Yukon Territory or (often) the Yukon is one of Canada's northern territories, in the country's extreme northwest.
		The next important event in the Yukon's history was the construction of the Alaska Highway during the Second World War, which, after its badly needed reconstruction by the Canadian Government in the late 1940s, opened up the territory to road traffic.
		The two main Yukon rivers flowing into the Mackenzie in the Northwest Territories are the Liard River in the southeast and the Peel River and its tributaries in the northeast.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Yukon (3411 words)

	Yukon, Oklahoma - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Yukon is a suburban city in Canadian County, Oklahoma and is part of the Oklahoma City Metropolitan Area.
		Yukon is the hometown of superstar country singer Garth Brooks, actor Dale Robertson and the red dirt band Cross Canadian Ragweed.
		Yukon's sister city is Krnov in the Czech Republic.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yukon,_Oklahoma (1210 words)

	Yukon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Yukon First Nations stories speak of all the animal and fish dying as a result.
		All Yukon communities except one are accessible by mostly paved roads, but air travel is the only way to reach one remote community in the Far North (Old Crow).
		The Yukon was one of nine jurisdictions in Canada to offer same-sex marriage before the passage of Canada's Civil Marriage Act, along with Ontario, British Columbia, Quebec, Manitoba, Nova Scotia, Saskatchewan, Newfoundland and Labrador, and New Brunswick.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yukon (3490 words)

	Haines Junction, Yukon - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Haines Junction is a village in the Yukon Territory, Canada.
		It is located at Kilometre 1,632 (historical mile 1016) of the Alaska Highway at its junction with the Haines Highway, hence the name of the community.
		Population is 789 (Yukon Bureau of Statistics, Dec. 2004).
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Haines_Junction,_Yukon (310 words)

	Tourism & Culture - Cultural Services - Heritage Resources Unit (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The junction of the Pelly and the Yukon rivers was once the extreme eastern edge of Beringia, the fabled Ice Age land of woolly mammoths, lions, giant bears and giant beavers.
		The onset of the next stage in early history of southern Yukon and the Fort Selkirk area was marked by a massive volcanic eruption in the White River country to the west, near the Alaska/Yukon border.
		History from the Ground Up From the style of artifacts found and their depth in the ground, two separate periods of occupation were identified at Fort Selkirk.
	www.yukonheritage.com /publications-selkirk.htm (3989 words)

	Yukon River Whitehorse to Dawson City
		For those of you who thought canoeing down The Yukon consisted of aimlessly drifting down the river are you in for a surprise.
		The Yukon Field Force was established in 1898 and based her at Fort Selkirk.
		Almost everywhere you camp along the Yukon there is evidence of bears, ranging from tracks in the soft ground along the river to bear scat, to markings on the trees.
	www.angelfire.com /ky/soybeans (2037 words)

	Yukon Territory. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The triangle-shaped Yukon territory is bordered on the N by the Beaufort Sea of the Arctic Ocean, on the E by the Northwest Territories, on the S by British Columbia and Alaska, and on the W by Alaska.
		The highest point in the Yukon is Mt. Logan, 19,551 ft (5,959 m) high, part of the Coast Ranges in the southwest.
		The Yukon’s leading industry by far is mining; lead, zinc, silver, gold, and copper are the principal minerals.
	www.bartleby.com /65/yu/YukonTer.html (603 words)

	The Yukon Territory
		Yukon Coat of Arms - The Yukon Coat of Arms is a red, blue, gold and white shield surmounted by a malamute (or husky) standing on a mound of snow.
		Yukon Flag - The Yukon flag consists of three vertical panels: a central panel of white flanked by a green panel on the inner edge and a blue panel on the outer edge.
		The blue represents the Yukon's rivers and lakes, the green symbolizes the forests and white signifies snow.
	www.questconnect.org /ak_yukon.htm (592 words)

	Yukon Territory Alaska Northern British Columbia
		The official tree of the Yukon is the sub-alpine fir.
		The Yukon Territory is large enough to hold the states of California, Arizona, Delaware and West Virginia.
		Of this, 20.4 miles (32.8 km) are in Alaska; 32.2 miles (51.8 km) in British Columbia, and 58.1 miles (93.5 km) in the Yukon.
	www.yukoninfo.com (509 words)

	History of the Yukon Employees Union (YEU)
		The Yukon Employees' Union (YEU) is the single largest union in the Yukon Territory.
		The membership of YEU is spread throughout the Yukon from the most northerly (Herschel Island) near the Northwest Territories border to Beaver Creek, a point 350 miles west of Los Angeles, California.
		The Yukon Employees' Union is one of the youngest members of the National Board of Directors.
	www.yeupsac.com /pages/history.html (318 words)

	Yukon at a Glance - History - Government of Yukon (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Yukon First Nations elders and people have many stories and legends about the creation of earth and the first human inhabitants.
		Fort Yukon, at the mouth of the Porcupine River, was considered to be in American territory.
		The easily extracted placer gold was depleted by the early 1900s and the Yukon's population dropped to 8,512 by 1911.
	www.gov.yk.ca /yukonglance/history.html (1613 words)

	Library: Canada Facts: Yukon
		Yukon's capital was transferred from Dawson to Whitehorse in 1953.In 1979 the Canadian government opened the Dempster Highway, Canada's first all-weather road to cross the Arctic Circle.
		Yukon Indians now comprise approximately 25% of the population of the territory.
		Yukon Indians live side by side with non-native residents in every community in the Yukon and form the majority of the population in more remote villages.
	library.educationworld.net /canadafacts/yk_history.html (727 words)

	Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race
		The Yukon Quest has been called the "toughest race on earth," due to its rugged terrain and long distances between checkpoints.
		This race from Fairbanks to Circle City served primarily as a qualifier race for the Yukon Quest, and the Iditarod, which is always held the first Saturday in March.
		In 2005, the 250 was lengthened to 300 miles, and became known as the Yukon Quest 300.
	fairbanks-alaska.com /yukon-quest-international.htm (701 words)

	Manitoba History: Review: Land of the Midnight Sun - A History of the Yukon
		Covering the fur trade in the Yukon basin, whaling along the north slope of the territory, the impacts of Alaska Highway construction, in addition to the standard Yukon fare of Klondike gold, Coates and Morrison provide a well rounded description of the Yukon’s “discovery and development” by Europeans.
		The description of the Yukon’s history through white eyes denies the richness of the aboriginal cultures and their contributions to human life in the territory.
		By narrowing the focus of their territorial history Coates and Morrison have blended Yukon history comfortably into the mainstream of Canadian history.
	www.mhs.mb.ca /docs/mb_history/19/yukonhistory.shtml (380 words)

	Yukon 800 - History
		The Yukon 800 Mile Marathon, the grandfather of Alaska’s contemporary endurance races dating back 45 years, is a 2-day high speed riverboat race.
		According to historians, the Yukon 800 evolved from races held along the Nenana River and on a gravel pit outside of Fairbanks in the mid 1950s.
		The race began at Circle City on the Yukon River and was dubbed the Arctic Circle Marathon because its course traveled above the Arctic Circle for 20-30 miles near the village of Fort Yukon.
	www.yukon800.com /Y8_history.htm (617 words)

	Yukon Pathways :: Canoe the Yukon :: Guided Canoe trips :: Pelly, etc
		YUKON CANOE TOURS :: Canoe the Yukon River, Pelly River, Big Salmon River and Wind Rivers with Pathways
		The canoe trip from Pelly Crossing to Dawson City captures this sense of adventure and history.
		The Pelly and Yukon Rivers are in virtually untouched areas and contain a large variety of wildlife.
	www.canoe-yukon.com (167 words)

	History of the Yukon Liquor Corporation - Yukon Liquor Corporation - Government of Yukon
		After two years of the control system in the Yukon Territory, the sale of beer glass was approved in the early 1920's.
		As the Yukon Population increased and became less transient, the Agent's duties were combined with the vendors giving them Territorial Agent status.
		With the exception of domestic beer bottles which are returned directly to a brewery distribution outlet in Southern Canada, empty glass, aluminum and cardboard containers are consolidated at the Central Warehouse for furtherance to the Recycling Centre in Whitehorse.
	www.ylc.yk.ca /history.html (668 words)

	Yukon History, Klondike Gold Rush (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Klondike Gold Rush was a frenzy of gold rush immigration to and gold prospecting in the Klondike near Dawson City in the Yukon Territory, Canada, after gold was discovered in the late 19th century.
		The news spread to other mining camps in the Yukon River valley, and the Bonanza, Eldorado and Hunker Creeks were rapidly staked by miners who had been previously working creeks and sandbars on the Fortymile and Stewart Rivers.
		Many using this route late in 1897 were caught by winter ice below Fort Yukon, Alaska and had to be rescued, but use of this route was implicit in the discovery of gold finds at Nome and St. Michael near the Yukon estuary, and at Fairbanks, Alaska.
	www.yukonterritorycanada.ca /history.html (1072 words)

	RCMP History in the Yukon
		A significant feature in the Yukon's police history was the dog patrols sent to remote outposts and used to carry the Royal Mail.
		The team included an Aboriginal Constable, as well as the first female Aboriginal Constable to travel this historic route, and a First Nations dog musher from Fort McPherson, who is a descendant of a Native guide from one of the original Patrols.
		The year 1995 marks the 90th anniversary of the first patrol over this route by Constable Mapley, the 75th anniversary of Sergeant Dempster's 1920 Patrol (to whom the Dempster Highway is dedicated), and the 50th year since the Last Patrol over this particular route by Inspector Forrest in 1945.
	www.yukoninfo.com /rcmp (348 words)

	The History of Whitehorse, Yukon Territory
		Of the many modes of transportation developed during the gold rush, the most practical was the White Pass & Yukon Route, a narrow-gauge railway connecting Skagway, at tidewater, with Whitehorse, at the head of navigation on the Yukon River.
		It was still the head of navigation on the Yukon River, although with the construction of the Alaska Highway, roads began to supersede rivers.
		In 1951 the federal government amended the Yukon Act, increasing the number of members on the Yukon Council and providing for two of them to represent Whitehorse.
	www.yukonalaska.com /communities/whitehorsehist.html (2230 words)

	History of Mining in the Yukon - Mining - Energy, Mines and Resources - Government of Yukon
		Mining has continued to be the cornerstone of the Yukon economy from the famous Klondike gold rush of 1896/98 to the present day, although the territory has experienced several "boom-and-bust" cycles as metal prices have risen and fallen over the years.
		The aboriginal people are known to have mined native copper nuggets in the White River area of southwest Yukon to fashion arrowheads and to trade.
		Placer gold mining remained the mainstay of the Yukon economy from the time of gold rush until the early 1920s.
	www.emr.gov.yk.ca /mining/history.html (1081 words)

	Parks & Historic Sites (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Human history in the Yukon is dwarfed only by the history of the land itself.
		Much of the Yukon's most spectacular wilderness is preserved within comprehensive national and territorial parks and other protected areas.
		Kluane is the most accessible of the Yukon's three National Parks and encompasses icefields and Canada's highest peak, Mount Logan.
	www.touryukon.com /Parks.asp (214 words)

	THE 14 COMMUNITIES
		The advent of missionaries led many Yukon Natives to accept the European notion of god and the gospel of Christ, but the undercurrent of traditional spirituality address many of the heartfelt concerns of the people who must know the land intimately in order to survive on it well.
		All the traditional Yukon Indians thought there were many spirit powers in the universe, some were more powerful than the spirit powers of humans.
		The Yukon International Storytelling Festival, Yukon Native Arts Festival, Native Folklore and Yukon Indian Days are exciting activities that take place throughout the year and are hosted by the Yukon First Nations peoples.
	www.yfnta.org /past/history.htm (1634 words)

	History - Information Sources
		The history of the Yukon First Nations is well-presented in McClellan's 1987 book: Part of the Land, Part of the Water.
		The history and annual round of the Vuntut Gwitchin is described in the original sources of Osgood (1934, 1936), Leechman (1954), and Balikci (1963).
		The Yukon Refugium Project (1975-1979), a coalition of researchers from different institutions, (National Museum of Man, National Museum of Natural Sciences, Geological Survey of Canada, and University of Alberta), was based on palaeontological and archaeological research along the Old Crow River (Morlan 1980).
	yukon.taiga.net /vuntutrda/history/info.htm (1290 words)

	History of the Yukon Quest
		The Yukon Quest began as a shared dream of musher LeRoy Shank and non-musher and historian Roger Williams.
		The Yukon Quest gets its name form the old " Highway of the North", the Yukon River, and traces the path that the prospectors followed to reach the Alaskan interior from the Klondike during the Gold Rush.
		In 1989, Yukoner Jennine Cathers became the youngest musher to enter the race.
	www.yesnet.yk.ca /schools/projects/quest/history.html (929 words)

	The Hougen Group of Companies - A Yukon Tradition
		The documentation of the Yukon's history is a growing element and will be modified and added to as time passes.
		However, as it developed, Hougen's interrelationships with other Yukon residents and events became clear and resulted in a broadening of the scope of the data presented, including historical photographs.Many photos of Yukon past have been donated by The Hougen Group to Yukon Archives, as well as being on display in the Hougen Centre.
		Having photographed events in the Yukon directly or through his photography business, Rolf Hougen and the Hougen Group are now sharing these images of Yukon past.
	www.hougens.com /yukonHistory (239 words)

	Canadian History - The Yukon
		This is the tale of how Canada’s high northern wilderness was brought into civilization’s fold through a frail network of wires laboriously strung between poles and trees for hundreds of desolate miles.
		It started in 1897, when gold was discovered in the Yukon and the government needed a faster way to communicate with its remote northern territory.
		Using techniques similar to those of a skilled detective, author Dick North pieces the evidence together in an attempt to solve the mystery of the doomed journey that has gone down in Mountie annals as the Lost Patrol.
	www.bcbooks.com /histyukon.html (257 words)

	The History of Fort Yukon, Alaska - ExploreNorth (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Fort Yukon is located at the confluence of the Yukon River and the Porcupine River, about 145 air miles northeast of Fairbanks.
		Fort Yukon was founded in 1847 by Alexander Murray as a Canadian outpost in Russian Territory.
		In 1867, Alaska was purchased by the U.S., and two years later it was determined that Fort Yukon was on American soil.
	www.explorenorth.com /library/communities/alaska/bl-FortYukon.htm (257 words)

	Find a Museum in the Virtual Museum of Canada. Discover Canada's museums, galleries, heritage sites, gardens, ...
		Fort Selkirk is an historic townsite on the Yukon River at the mouth of the Pelly.
		The museum interprets the history of the Anglican Church in the Yukon and Mackenzie Delta region.
		The Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre features life-sized exhibits of animals of the last ice age, multi-media computer kiosks, and dioramas depicting the unique landscape, flora and fauna of Ber...
	www.virtualmuseum.ca /PM.cgi?LANG=English&LM=MuseumFlash&AP=vmc_search&scope=Museum&mark=Museum&prov=Yukon (512 words)

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