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Yukon was split from the Northwest Territories in 1898 as the Yukon Territory. The federal government's Yukon Act , which received royal assent on March 27, 2002, established "Yukon" as the territory's official name, although Yukon Territory remains in popular usage.
A map of Yukon. Yukon is in the northwestern corner of Canada and is bordered by Alaska, British Columbia and the Northwest Territories.The sparsely populated territory abounds with natural scenery, snowmelt lakes and perennial white-capped mountains, including many of Canada's highest mountains.
Yukon is the westernmost and smallest of Canada's three federal territories. Whitehorse is the territorial capital. The Territory was named after the Yukon River .
Yukon is the second most populous of Canada's three territories with 40,232 residents as of 2021. [1] It is the smallest territory in land area at 472,345 km 2 (182,373 sq mi). [2] Yukon's eight municipalities cover only 0.2% of the territory's land mass [a] but are home to 72.2% of its population.
In 2003, the Yukon Territory underwent a name change as the words the and Territory were officially dropped from the name. Unofficially, both in the Yukon government and amongst its people, the is still recognised and used. [13] Yukon was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdowns instituted in response thereto. [14]
Stewart River is a former settlement at the juncture of the Yukon and Stewart rivers. A few buildings and cabins remain, as well as private museum, which are threatened by erosion . It was founded as a trading post in the 1880s before the Klondike Gold Rush to serve placer miners working along the Stewart River.
Yukon is the westernmost of Canada's three northern territories.Its capital is Whitehorse.People from Yukon are known as Yukoners (French: Yukonnais).Unlike in other Canadian provinces and territories, Statistics Canada uses the entire territory as a single at-large census division.
In 1896, gold was discovered in the Yukon, leading to the Klondike Gold Rush in 1896-1899, and the first substantial white settlements were made in the near north. To deal with the increased settlement in the Klondike, the Yukon Territory was created in 1898. Today several million people live in the near north, around 15% of the Canadian total.