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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.
He established Fort Frances, Yukon on Frances Lake in the Liard River basin. In 1840 he crossed from Frances Lake to the Pelly River becoming the first European to explore the upper Yukon River Basin. He established Fort Selkirk, Yukon, at the juncture of the Yukon River and the Pelly River. His discoveries led to little financial gain at the time.
Numerous Indigenous peoples of the area had their own names for this prominent peak. The local Koyukon Athabaskan name for the mountain, used by the Indigenous Americans with access to the flanks of the mountain (living in the Yukon, Tanana and Kuskokwim basins), is Dinale or Denali (/ d ɪ ˈ n æ l i / or / d ɪ ˈ n ɑː l i /). [13]
Yukon [a] is the smallest and westernmost of Canada's three territories.It is the most densely populated of the three territories, with an estimated population of 46,948 as of 2024, [3] though it has a smaller population than any of the provinces.
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.
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[1] European traders began to arrive in the region in the mid 19th century, and in 1874, the first trading post in the Klondike (Fort Reliance) was established. Soon after, in 1876, the Indian Act was passed (without Indigenous negotiation), which restricted the ability of Indigenous Canadians to continue their cultural practices and live in ...
The force parading en route to the Yukon in Vancouver, 1898. The Yukon Field Force was created in response to the discovery of gold in the Canadian far north in the final years of the 19th century. There was no government presence in the Yukon in the late 19th century and the region was sparsely populated by First Nations and European ...