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Dawson City was the centre of the Klondike Gold Rush. [7] It began in 1896 and changed the First Nations camp into a thriving city of 16,000–17,000 [8] by 1898. By 1899, the gold rush had ended and the town's population plummeted as all but 8,000 people left. When Dawson was incorporated as a city in 1902, the population was under 5,000. St.
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.
About 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi) south of the dredge's current site, further into the Klondike Valley, is the Discovery Claim [3] where gold was found in August 1896 by prospector George Carmack, his Tagish wife Kate, her brother Skookum Jim, and their nephew Dawson Charlie. [4] This is considered the site where the Klondike Gold Rush began. [5]
The 1946 comedy Road to Utopia, directed by Hal Walker and starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour, is set during the rush. Life in Dawson City during the gold rush was the subject of the 1957 National Film Board of Canada (NFB) documentary City of Gold, directed by Colin Low (filmmaker) and Wolf Koenig and narrated by Pierre Berton.
Dawson City: Frozen Time is a 2016 American documentary film written, edited, and directed by Bill Morrison, [2] and produced by Morrison and Madeleine Molyneaux. [3] First screened in the Orizzonti competition section at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival, [4] the film details the history of the remote Yukon town of Dawson City, from the Klondike Gold Rush to the 1978 Dawson Film ...
A gold rush or gold fever is a discovery of gold—sometimes accompanied by other precious metals and rare-earth minerals—that brings an onrush of miners seeking their fortune. Major gold rushes took place in the 19th century in Australia , Greece , New Zealand , Brazil , Chile , South Africa , the United States , and Canada while smaller ...
In 1896, gold was found in the Klondike region and O'Brien and Moran moved their trading house to Klondike City. This was a settlement that sat just south of Dawson City at the confluence of the Klondike and the Yukon rivers. At this time, Klondike City was government reserve land that was available by lease only. [4]
In August 1896, a few days after the discovery of gold in the Klondike, he staked a claim to either 160 [1] or 178 [2] acres (65-72 hectares) of boggy flats at the mouth of the Klondike River as a townsite. In January 1897, he named the new town Dawson after Canadian geologist George Mercer Dawson. [1] By July, about 5000 people lived there. [3]