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	Yukon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Yukon or Yukon Territory or (usually) The Yukon is one of Canada's northern territories, in the country's extreme northwest.
		Yukon First Nations stories speak of all the animal and fish dying as a result.
		Yukon was one of eight jurisdictions in Canada to offer same-sex marriage before the passage of Canada's Civil Marriage Act, along with British Columbia, Manitoba, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec and Saskatchewan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yukon (1770 words)

	Klondike, Yukon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Klondike is a region of the Yukon Territory in northwest Canada, east of the Alaska border.
		It lies around the Klondike River, a small river that enters the Yukon River from the east at Dawson.
		The Klondike is famed because of the Klondike Gold Rush, which started in 1897 and ended the following year.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Klondike,_Yukon (142 words)

	Klondike - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Klondike
		Former gold-mining area in northwest Yukon Territory, Canada, near Dawson, where the Klondike and Yukon rivers meet.
		The gold was first discovered in 1896 in Bonanza Creek, a tributary of the Klondike River; by 1900, over $22 million worth of gold had been mined in the area.
		He had mushed dogs in the Klondike, washed gold from the sands of Nome, and edited a newspaper in San Francisco.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Klondike (315 words)

	MSN Encarta - Yukon Territory
		To the outsider the Yukon Territory remains inextricably associated with the rush for gold in the Klondike region at the end of the 19th century.
		The Yukon’s longest lakes, Kluane and Aishihik, are at the southern end of the plateau.
		The frost-free period in the valleys of the Yukon Plateau averages only about 75 days, but the date of the first frost and the severity of the winters are highly unpredictable, depending on whether icy air masses from the Arctic or warmer currents of air coming from the northern Pacific Ocean prevail over the area.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/refarticle.aspx?refid=761576299 (663 words)

	Eureka4you.com - Yukon - The Klondike (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		This is the flag of the Yukon territory.
		For the Yukon Territory, the floral emblem is the magenta-purple fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium), which by late July covers the hills and roadsides.
		The Yukon tartan, the lazulite (gemstone) and the common raven.
	www.eureka4you.com /yk/ykindex.htm (163 words)

	Stern-wheelers of the Far North
		Yukon stern-wheelers were patterned after the stately Missouri River boats, with flat hulls to keep up speed and "hog posts" on the upper decks to prevent twisting and to haul the ships over shallow points along the river.
		The Klondike carried mail, general supplies, passengers and silver lead ore along the-460-mile route between Whitehorse and Dawson City until 1955, when she was retired.
		Donated to the Canadian government, the SS Klondike was moved through the center of Whitehorse to where it now rests on the west bank of the Yukon near the Robert Campbell Bridge in Whitehorse.
	www.questconnect.org /ak_sternwheelers.htm (588 words)

	A Bibliography for the History of Skagway, Alaska, and the Klondike Gold Rush -- Tennessee Archaeology Net
		CADELL, HENRY MOUERAY 1914 The Klondike and Yukon Goldfield in 1913.
		NICHOLS, JEANNETTE PADDOCK 1922 Advertising and the Klondike.
		WRIGHT, ALLEN A 1976 Prelude to Bonanza: The Discovery and Exploration of the Yukon.
	www.mtsu.edu /~kesmith/TNARCHNET/Pubs/goldrush.html (9336 words)

	MSN Encarta - Klondike (Yukon Territory)
		Klondike (Yukon Territory), region in the western Yukon Territory, Canada, site of a great gold rush in the late 1890s.
		The Klondike is in the vicinity of Dawson, where the Klondike and Yukon rivers meet.
		On August 17, 1896, alluvial gold was discovered in Bonanza Creek, a tributary of the Klondike River.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761576003/Klondike_(Yukon_Territory).html (205 words)

	Klondike, Canada
		The Klondike is a tributary of the Yukon River, and flows for 150 km (93 mi.) from its source in the Tintina, east of the Klondike Highway, into the Yukon at Dawson City.
		The legendary gold-rush in the Klondike began when George Washington Carmack and his two Indian brothers-in-law, Tagish Charlie and Shookum Jim, registered their first claim which they had made in Bonanza Creek, a branch of the Klondike River, on August 17th 1896 in Fortymile.
		By 1903 the rivers and creeks of the Klondike had yielded gold worth about 96 million dollars, at an average price of 20 dollars per ounce (31g), but there were very few whose dreams of great riches came true.
	www.planetware.com /canada/klondike-cdn-yk-ykk.htm (368 words)

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		Three main routes were commonly used to reach the Klondike goldfields, located near the junction of the Yukon and Klondike rivers.
		The Yukon was the most obvious route to follow to the goldfields, but the journey was by no means easy.
		During the peak of the Klondike gold rush, the population of Dawson City and its environs exceeded 30,000.
	www.nps.gov /klse/Resource_Guide.htm (6562 words)

	Gold Fever!--Determining the Facts 4
		The Klondike gold strike in the Yukon Territory marked the end of an era when prospectors could hope to dig out a fortune from the earth.
		The Klondike Gold Rush was significant not only because it was the last great gold rush but also because it increased awareness of the northern frontiers of Alaska and Canada.
		The gold-bearing gravel found between the Yukon and Klondike Rivers brought as much as $22 million in 1900, but it fell to $5.6 million by 1910 when most of the stampeders had left for Alaska, returned to Seattle, or set out to other regions.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/55klondike/55facts4.htm (828 words)

	S.S. Klondike, Whithorse, Yukon, Canada - Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
		It was the sternwheeler that brought the world to the Yukon and it was the Yukon River that carried these changes.
		From 1937 to 1952 the Klondike II was employed primarily as a cargo vessel.
		Returning from Dawson the Klondike II stopped first at Stewart Landing where she loaded sacks of silver lead ore. Mined in the Mayo District the ore was carried down the Stewart River by small sternwheelers such as the S.S. Keno.
	www.galenfrysinger.com /whitehorse_klondike.htm (565 words)

	klondike Highway, Yukon highways, klondike
		This 717 km/445 mile road, which is mostly paved, connects Skagway, Alaska and Dawson City, Yukon, heart of the Klondike.
		View of White Pass and Yukon Route Railroad on east side of canyon and the old Brackett Wagon Road on valley floor beside the Skagway River.
		Porcupine Creek was an ideal campsite for stampeders on Trail of ’98.
	www.bellsalaska.com /myalaska/klondikehwy2.html (828 words)

	Gold Rush Study Guide
		In the Yukon, there was a rush to the Klondike goldfields in 1896.
		Yukon Gold Fields: Map Showing Routes from Victoria, B.C. to the Various Mining Camps on the Yukon River and Its Branches: Mining Regulations of the Dominion Government and Forms of Application: Together with a Table of Distances, Extracts from Mr.
		Prelude to Bonanza: The Discovery and Exploration of the Yukon (1976)
	vpl.vancouver.bc.ca /branches/LibrarySquare/his/StudyGuides/gold_rush.html (1231 words)

	The Klondike Gold Rush: Curriculum Materials for the History of the Pacific Northwest in the Washington Public Schools (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Gold mining in the Yukon and Alaska was by no means an unheard of industry, and even in the depressed years of the mid-1890s, Seattle and other Northwest cities saw a few gold miners, and supplied them with food and equipment.
		The question of the Klondike excitement is of course connected to gold and to the promise of wealth that went along with gold.
		Klondike guidebook description of the gold produced by the miners that came down to Seattle and San Francisco on the first ships in July 1897.
	www.washington.edu /uwired/outreach/cspn/curklon/main.html (12931 words)

	Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park: Administrative History (Chapter 1)
		North of Tagish country was the homeland of the southern and northern Tutchone Indians; north of these tribes, surrounding the confluence of the Yukon and Klondike rivers, lived the Han Indians.
		But a series of small placer deposits were found in the Yukon drainage shortly after the trio became established, and their many letters Outside excited the Pacific Coast mining fraternity.
		Alarmed at continuing reports of gold in the Yukon interior and the predominant American nationality of the miners, the Geological Survey of Canada sent several parties to explore the country and determine the boundary between the U.S. and Canada.
	www.nps.gov /klgo/adhi/adhi1.htm (9164 words)

	Yukon Pride Adventure Tours: Lesbian Travel Klondike Region information
		Named for George Carmack, the co-discoverer of Klondike gold, the historic village was both a riverboat refueling station and a major stop on the Overland Trail linking Whitehorse and Dawson City.
		The lure of the Klondike drew thousands of young men, and some women, with the glint of gold in their eyes, to Dawson City.
		From a scenic vista on the North Klondike Highway, boardwalk stairs descend to the Yukon River, at the sight of these famous churning rapids.
	women.yukonpride.ca /region/klondike (1088 words)

	Klondike Highway Yukon Canada
		From Skagway the Klondike Highway travels northwest to the ghost town of Dyea, the head of the Chilkoot trail.
		A stop at Yukon Gardens will give you an insight into the native flora of the territory and the challenges and rewards of gardening in a northern climate.
		North of the rapids, Minto was a stagecoach stop during the first part of this century, and you can still see the remains of the roadhouse on the banks of the river.
	www.strathlorntravel.co.uk /klondike-highway.asp (718 words)

	WriteYukon > Klondike Gold Rush > History
		Well before his trip to the Klondike, Skookum Jim had a dream in which his spirit helper, frog, appeared in the form of Wealth Woman.
		But the world was under the grip of a severe recession at the time and the press played on the sensational wealth of the Klondike prospectors.
		By 1898, the small Han First Nations fishing camp at the confluence of the Yukon and Klondike Rivers had been transformed into the largest and most cosmopolitan Canadian city west of Winnipeg.
	www.writeyukon.com /klondike/gr_history.asp?i=D2C4&a=9994T7D29 (1082 words)

	The Klondike Sun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		THE KLONDIKE SUN is a non-profit, volunteer based newspaper published bi-weekly by the Literary Society of the Klondike, which is the parent organization.
		Letters to the editor, submissions and reports may be edited for brevity, clarity, good taste (as defined by community standards), racism, sexism, and legal considerations.
		The Klondike Sun is among the newspapers that can be found at ThePaperboy.com.
	www.yukonweb.com /community/dawson/klondike_sun (255 words)

	Describe the Yukon Gold Rush (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The letters of Hunter Fitzhugh, excerpted in the documents, describe the Shows how small Yukon towns were growing as a result of the gold rush.
		The in experiencing the Yukon River and the atmosphere of the gold rush.
		Tombstone Gold Belt in Yukon Craig Hart Yukon Geological the biggest staking rush in Yukon's history, and led to the to catalogue and describe each of the known occurrences
	www.sic82.info /describe-the-yukon-gold-rush.html (628 words)

	S.S. Klondike - British Yukon Navigation Company Sternwheeler - ExploreNorth
		It's located on the banks of the legendary Yukon River, at the edge of downtown Whitehorse, capital city of the Yukon Territory.
		The Klondike is undergoing a multi-year restoration of the hull.
		The Yukon River was a challenge to even the most experienced pilots and captains.
	www.explorenorth.com /library/ships/klondike2-photos (414 words)

	Klondike Snowmobile Association
		If you're planning a visit from outside the territory, be sure to let people know you're coming.
		The Klondike Snowmobile Association is a volunteer, non-profit organization formed in 1981 and incorporated in 1984 to represent snowmobilers in the Yukon Territory.
		Its mission is to "protect, develop and enhance the sport and recreation of snomobiling in the Yukon." We are a member of the following organizations:
	www.ksa.yk.ca (248 words)

	Spectacular Canada Hiking on the Klondike Trail, Yukon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Snowcapped mountains, hanging glaciers, turquoise lakes, and cascading rivers contribute to the magnificence of this rugged, scenic area.
		This Canada hiking trip on the Klondike trail is a scenic adventure.
		Your Canada hiking adventure begins as you leave Whitehorse to the trailhead at Dyea, which was the jumping off point for Klondike gold rushers who chose to use the Chilkoot Trail as their route to the gold fields.
	www.freshtracks.ca /hiking_climbing/hc_klondike.shtml (1467 words)

	Yukon - Klondike Highway '02 - photos of sightseeing in Yukon on Worldisround (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Sightseeing in Yukon - travel photos - Along the drive from Whitehorse to Skagway I made a few stops at historic sites along the...
		It is home to some of the oldest businesses in the Yukon as well as the Carcross Desert.
		Robinson was at one time another stop along the route between Skagway and the gold fields near Dawson.
	www.worldisround.com /articles/15876 (168 words)

	Klondike Highway north Dawson City, Yukon RV parks and Campgrounds
		NOTE: The kilometer posts on the Klondike Highway have been changed to reflect distance from Skagway.
		BEDROCK MOTEL (867) 996-2290 is located a mile past the Mayo Junction and 33 paved miles from the Klondike Highway.
		KLONDIKE RIVER LODGE (867) 993-6892 Located at the junction of the Klondike and Dempster Highway, just 25 miles from Dawson City.
	www.karo-ent.com /klondiken.htm (1542 words)

	Klondike Highway north Dawson City, Yukon RV parks and Campgrounds
		The kilometer posts on the Klondike Highway have been changed to reflect distance from Skagway.
		There are several ferry crossings that are closed during freeze and break up, and may be closed at other times due to high water.
		The final leg of the Klondike Loop is the Taylor Highway from Jack Wade Junction to Tetlin Junction on the Alaska Highway.
	www.karo-ent.com /kllondiken.htm (1797 words)

	Dawson City Community Profile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Gold, discovered in 1896 on nearby creeks, caused the Klondike Gold Rush which turned this native summer fish camp at the junction of the Klondike and Yukon Rivers into the "Paris of the North".
		The Yukon's economic centre shifted to Whitehorse, which became the capital in 1953.
		Remnants of dredges can be seen throughout the Klondike, and Parks Canada has restored Dredge #4 on Bonanza Creek.
	www.yukonweb.com /community/dawson (767 words)

	Yukon Jeep® Klondike Adventure
		From The Spell of the Yukon by Robert W. Service
		Horse Gulch, Bracket Wagon Trail and Tormented Valley enroute to the historic village of Carcross and the headwaters of the Yukon River.
		This spellbinding adventure crosses an international border, so you must bring your passport or a driver’s license plus a birth certificate!
	www.bestofalaskatravel.com /alaska_day_tours/pages/yukon_jeep_klondike.htm (173 words)

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