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The history of the Yukon covers the period from the arrival of Paleo-Indians through the Beringia land bridge approximately 20,000 years ago. In the 18th century, Russian explorers began to trade with the First Nations people along the Alaskan coast, and later established trade networks extending into Yukon.
Yukon [a] is the smallest, westernmost, and least-populous, but most densely populated, of Canada's three territories, with an estimated population of 46,948 as of 2024. [3] Whitehorse, the territorial capital, is the largest settlement in any of the three territories. [9] Yukon was split from the Northwest Territories in 1898 as the Yukon ...
There are 12 National Historic Sites designated in Yukon, four of which are in the national park system, administered by Parks Canada (identified below by the beaver icon ). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Several National Historic Events also occurred in Yukon, and are identified at places associated with them, using the same style of federal plaque which marks ...
Whitehorse (French pronunciation:) is the capital of the Yukon, and the largest city in Northern Canada.It was incorporated in 1950 and is located at kilometre 1426 (Historic Mile 918) on the Alaska Highway in southern Yukon.
The Klondike Gold Rush [n 1] was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of Yukon in northwestern Canada, between 1896 and 1899. Gold was discovered there by local miners on August 16, 1896; when news reached Seattle and San Francisco the following year, it triggered a stampede of prospectors.
The bones lead to fascinating discoveries, too, like piecing together the history of horses across the planet. A horse skull from the Ice Age unearthed in gold-mine permafrost. Government of Yukon
This article is a list of historic places in Yukon entered on the Canadian Register of Historic Places or the Yukon Register of Historic Places. In Canada, historic places are formally recognized for their heritage value by a federal , provincial, territorial or municipal authority.
The Hudson's Bay Company entered the area of the Yukon around that time. [4]: 3 Through the 1800s, indigenous people, such as the Hän, along the Alaska-Yukon border trapped for furs to trade for European manufactured items. [11] The Klondike Gold Rush of 1896 was a seminal moment in post contact history of the indigenous people of the Yukon.