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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.
On October 30, 2020, the territory reported its first COVID-19 death, who was a resident of Watson Lake. [7] The first vaccine, of the Moderna type, was administered on January 4, 2021. [8] An ongoing outbreak is happening in the territory since November 2021.
Christopher William Pearson (April 29, 1931 – February 14, 2014) was the second leader of the Yukon Progressive Conservative Party and the first premier of the Yukon in the Yukon. [ 1 ] Born in Lethbridge , Alberta, [ 2 ] Pearson moved to the Yukon in 1957 and worked for the government from 1960 until 1973 when he entered private business.
On October 26, 2021, Ralph Shaw shot and killed two people in the town of Faro, in Canada's Yukon Territory. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police were first alerted to the Faro in order to solve a case of Domestic violence but were then called after residents heard gunfire. [ 1 ]
William John Duncan Dempster (21 October 1876 – 25 October 1964) was a member of the North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) in the Yukon Territory during the early 20th century. He gained notice for his involvement in finding the Lost Patrol, three NWMP officers and an ex-NWMP officer/guide who disappeared on the trail between Fort McPherson and ...