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Dawson City, officially the City of Dawson, is a town in the Canadian territory of Yukon. It is inseparably linked to the Klondike Gold Rush (1896–1899). Its population was 1,577 as of the 2021 census , [ 6 ] making it the second-largest municipality in Yukon.
Dawson City Airport (IATA: YDA, ICAO: CYDA) is located 8 nautical miles (15 km; 9.2 mi) east of Dawson City, Yukon, Canada, in the Klondike River valley, and is operated by the Yukon government. It has a terminal building and a runway which was paved in May 2019. [ 4 ]
It is now located along Bonanza Creek Road 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) south of the Klondike Highway [1] near Dawson City, Yukon, where it is preserved as one of the National Historic Sites of Canada. It is the largest wooden-hulled dredge in North America. [2]
Yukon has seven towns. Dawson City is the territory's largest town by population with 1,577 residents and Faro is the largest by land area 199.89 km 2 (77.18 sq mi). [1] Mayo is the smallest town by population and land area at 188 residents in 1.06 km 2 (0.41 sq mi). [1]
People leaving Dawson City, Yukon, for Nome, Alaska, September 1899. Another factor in the decline was the change in Dawson City, which had developed throughout 1898, metamorphosing from a ramshackle, if wealthy, boom town into a more sedate, conservative municipality. [299]
Dawson City, Yukon, with Keno ' s white superstructure clearly visible on the bank of the Yukon River. Late in 1958 the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada (HSMBC) announced its opinion "that it is of national historic importance to preserve a typical representative or representatives of lake and river sternwheel steamship transport."
Cabin of Robert Service in Dawson City, Yukon. Whitehorse was a frontier town, less than ten years old. Located on the Yukon River at the White Horse Rapids, it had begun in 1897 as a campground for prospectors on their way to Dawson City to join the Klondike Gold Rush.
St. Paul's Anglican Church is a historic Carpenter Gothic style Anglican church building located on the corner of Front and Church streets in Dawson City, Yukon, Canada. Built of wood in 1902, it once served as the cathedral of the Anglican Diocese of Yukon until the diocesan see was moved to Whitehorse in 1953.