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This is a list of notable people who are from Yukon, Canada, or have spent a large part or formative part of their career in that territory. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
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Yukon was split from the Northwest Territories by a federal statute in 1898 as the Yukon Territory. The current governing legislation is a new statute passed by the federal Parliament in 2002, the Yukon Act. [9] That act established Yukon as the territory's official name, although Yukon Territory remains in popular usage.
Yukon is the westernmost of Canada's three northern territories. Its capital is Whitehorse. People from Yukon are known as Yukoners (French: Yukonnais). Unlike in other Canadian provinces and territories, Statistics Canada uses the entire territory as a single at-large census division. Population of Yukon: 40,232 (2021 Census)
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.
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 .