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Dawson City, officially the City ... The current settlement was founded by Joseph Ladue and named in January 1897 after noted Canadian geologist George M. Dawson, ...
Joseph Francis Ladue (July 28, 1855 – June 27, 1901) was an American prospector, businessman and founder of Dawson City, Yukon, Canada. Ladue was born in Schuyler Falls, New York. His mother died when he was seven years old, and his father in 1874. Upon his father's death, 19-year-old Joe headed west.
At their terminus, Dawson City was founded at the confluence of the Klondike and Yukon rivers. From a population of 500 in 1896, the town grew to house approximately 17,000 people by summer 1898. From a population of 500 in 1896, the town grew to house approximately 17,000 people by summer 1898.
Dawson was founded in 1856 as seat of the newly formed Terrell County.It was incorporated as a town in 1857 and as a city in 1872. [5] Terrell was an important site in the 1960s, when the county in which it is located was labeled "Terrible Terrell" by the SNCC.
In 1874, Mayo and McQuesten established Fort Reliance, a few miles downstream of what later became Dawson City. Miners and prospectors slowly trickled in, and gold was found in many areas but rarely in paying quantities. Drawing of Fort Reliance in 1884.
Dawson City was founded in 1896 in the early days of the Klondike Gold Rush, alongside the Yukon River in north-western Canada. [1] Swelled by would-be gold-miners and adventurers, Dawson's population soared to 30,000 at the height of the rush in 1898. [2]
City formed by combining the towns of Christianburg, MacKenzie, and Wismar. 1970: Cancún: Quintana Roo: Mexico: Development of the area as a resort was started on April 20, 1970 1974: Inírida: Guainía: Colombia: 1989: Palmas: Tocantins: Brazil: Founded one year after the creation of the State of Tocantins.
Father William Judge (April 28, 1850 – January 16, 1899) was a Jesuit priest who, during the 1897 Klondike Gold Rush, established St. Mary's Hospital, a facility in Dawson City which provided shelter, food and any available medicine to the many hard-luck gold miners who filled the town and its environs. [1]