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Mayo is a village in Yukon, Canada, along the Silver Trail and the Stewart River. It had a population of 200 in 2016. [4] The Yukon Bureau of Statistics estimated a population of 496 in 2019. [5] It is also the home of the First Nation of Na-Cho Nyak Dun, whose people primarily speak the northern variety of the Tutchone language.
Yukon was split from the Northwest Territories in 1898 as the Yukon Territory. The federal government's Yukon Act, which received royal assent on March 27, 2002, established "Yukon" as the territory's official name, although Yukon Territory remains in popular usage. Canada Post uses the territory's internationally approved postal abbreviation ...
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.
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]
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Yukon. Yukon is the westernmost and smallest of Canada's three federal territories. Whitehorse is the territorial capital. The Territory was named after the Yukon River. The word Yukon means "Great River" or "Big Stream" in Gwich'in.
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.
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 .
Tombstone Mountain Glissade Pass August 2016 A View of Tombstone Mountain. Tombstone Territorial Park is a territorial park in the Yukon, one of three territories in Canada.It is in central Yukon, near the southern end of the Dempster Highway, stretching from the 50.5 to the 115.0 kilometre marker.