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  2. History of Yukon - Wikipedia

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    The next important event in 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 Alaska Highway has played an extremely important role in the acculturation of the people.

  3. Yukon - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. Whitehorse - Wikipedia

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    As a federal territory, the Yukon is officially bilingual in English and French. In 2011, 84.3% of the residents of Whitehorse declared English as their only mother tongue , while 4.6% reported French as their only mother tongue, and 9.7% of the population reported a non-official language as their mother tongue. [ 59 ]

  5. Outline of Yukon - Wikipedia

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    The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Yukon. 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. The word Yukon means "Great River" or "Big Stream" in Gwich'in.

  6. White Pass and Yukon Route - Wikipedia

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    The White Pass and Yukon Route (WP&Y, WP&YR) (reporting mark WPY) is a Canadian and U.S. Class III 3 ft (914 mm) narrow-gauge railroad linking the port of Skagway, Alaska, with Whitehorse, the capital of Yukon. An isolated system, it has no direct connection to any other railroad.

  7. List of National Historic Sites of Canada in Yukon - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of National Historic Sites (French: Lieux historiques nationaux) in the territory of 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 ).

  8. Northern Canada - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Klondike Gold Rush - Wikipedia

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    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.