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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.
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 ).
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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.
Forty Mile (Hän: Ch’ëdähdëk) is best known as the oldest town in Canada’s Yukon. It was established in 1886 at the confluence of the Yukon and Fortymile rivers by prospectors and fortune hunters in search of gold. Largely abandoned during the nearby Klondike Gold Rush, the town site continued to be used by Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in. [1]
Canyon City is a Klondike Gold Rush ghost town and a Yukon Government Heritage Site. It is located about 7 km from downtown Whitehorse, Yukon, at the upstream end of Miles Canyon on the Yukon River. Summer tours are encouraged. Archaeological work shows evidence that First Nations people have used this area for many thousands of years. There ...
Fort Reliance is an abandoned trading post in the territory of Yukon, Canada. [1] It stands on the east bank of the Yukon River, 13 km (8.1 mi) downstream of the town of Dawson City. The fort was established in 1874 by François Mercier, Jack McQuesten, and Francis Barnfield for the Alaska Commercial Company to serve as a trading post.
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