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Yukon Gold was a Canadian reality television series produced by Paperny Entertainment that aired on History Television. The series followed four or five placer mining crews as they searched for gold over the four-month Yukon mining season. The series was acquired in the United States by the National Geographic Channel and aired starting in 2013 ...
'Yukon Gold' is a large cultivar of potato most distinctly characterized by its thin, smooth, eye-free skin and yellow-tinged flesh. This potato was developed in the 1960s by Garnet ("Gary") Johnston [ 1 ] [ 2 ] in Guelph, Ontario, Canada , with the help of Geoff Rowberry at the University of Guelph .
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.
Yukon Gold potato, a variety of potato Yukon Gold (1952 film) , an American western film from 1952 Yukon Gold (TV series) , a 2013 reality show about gold mining in the Yukon
The song appeared in the opening and closing sequences of the first Borderlands game; a commercial for the TNT series Leverage; in the 2010 film The Bounty Hunter; in an episode of The Vampire Diaries ("Isobel"); in a third-season episode of Jersey Shore; as the opening song of Canadian reality television series Yukon Gold; and Cage the Elephant performed the song on television on the Late ...
White Pass and Yukon Route Railroad Building is now a museum and home of the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park White Pass & Yukon Route 1907 Ad. As the gold rush wound down, serious professional mining was taking its place; not so much for gold as for other metals such as copper, silver and lead. The closest port was Skagway, and the ...
Robert William Service (16 January 1874 – 11 September 1958) was a British born Canadian poet and writer, often called “The Poet of the Yukon" and "The Canadian Kipling". [2] Born in Lancashire of Scottish descent, he was a bank clerk by trade, but spent long periods travelling in the west in the United States and Canada, often in poverty.
The "Discovery Claim (Claim 37903)", a mining claim on Bonanza Creek where the Klondike Gold Rush began, the discovery of which marked the beginning of the development of the Yukon; [4] and "Dredge No. 4", a preserved bucketline sluice dredge used to mine placer gold and which symbolizes the importance of dredging operations to the evolution of ...