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There is no Inuit population in Yukon, although there was a population along the Arctic Ocean coast within historic times. The Inuit were decimated by disease and disappeared in the 19th century. In 1984, the Government of Canada included the Yukon North Slope within the Inuvialuit Settlement Region under the auspices of the Inuvialuit. [5]
Yukon is the second most populous of Canada's three territories with 40,232 residents as of 2021. [1] It is the smallest territory in land area at 472,345 km 2 (182,373 sq mi). [2] Yukon's eight municipalities cover only 0.2% of the territory's land mass [a] but are home to 72.2% of its population.
Yukon [a] is the smallest, westernmost, and least-populous, but most densely populated, of Canada's three territories, with an estimated population of 46,948 as of 2024. [3] Whitehorse, the territorial capital, is the largest settlement in any of the three territories. [9] Yukon was split from the Northwest Territories in 1898 as the Yukon ...
Dalton Post or Shäwshe is a former trading post and First Nations community on the Tatshenshini River.It was on the Dalton Trail near the Haines Highway.Today, it is a prime Pacific salmon fishing spot and serves as a base for whitewater rafting expeditions on the Tatshenshini and Alsek Rivers in the Tatshenshini-Alsek Provincial Park.
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.
Haines Junction is a village in Yukon, Canada. It is at Kilometre 1,632 (historical mile 1016) of the Alaska Highway at its junction with the Haines Highway, hence the name of the community. According to the 2021 census, the population was 688. [3] However, the Yukon Bureau of Statistics lists the population count for 2022 as 1,018. [4]
Name Length (km) [1] Length (mi) From To 1 Alaska Highway: 957.15 594.75 Highway 97 south of Watson Lake: AK-2 at U.S. border east of Alcan Border, AK: 5 South Klondike Highway: 133.7 83.1 AK-98 north of Skagway, AK: Hwy 1 southeast of Whitehorse: 2, 3 North Klondike Highway: 524 326 Hwy 1 north of Whitehorse: Hwy 9 in Dawson City: 4 Haines ...
Eagle Plains is a rural locality in northern Yukon, Canada about 20 km (12 mi) south of the Arctic Circle. The community is along the Dempster Highway , about 410 km (250 mi) north of Dawson City and about 365 km (227 mi) south of Inuvik of the Northwest Territories .