Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The next important event in Yukon's history was the construction of the Alaska Highway during the Second World War, which, after its badly needed reconstruction by the Canadian Government in the late 1940s, opened up the territory to road traffic. The Alaska Highway has played an extremely important role in the acculturation of the people.
40,000 BP The earliest record of Rangifer tarandus caribou [4] (which includes five subspecies:boreal woodland caribou, barren-ground caribou) in North America . is from a 1.6 million year old tooth found in the Yukon Territory; other early records include 45,500-year-old cranial fragment from the Yukon and a 40,600-year-old antler from Quebec (Gordon 2003).
The Klondike Gold Rush of 1896 was a seminal moment in post contact history of the indigenous people of the Yukon. [4]: 3 [11] Not only did the influx of Europeans bring new diseases, missionary movements and European consumer items but also the indigenous peoples found a role as guides, packers and chandlers for prospectors. [12]
[1] [2] Several National Historic Events also occurred in Yukon, and are identified at places associated with them, using the same style of federal plaque which marks National Historic Sites. National Historic Persons are commemorated in the same way. The markers do not indicate which designation—a Site, Event, or Person—a subject has been ...
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Pages for logged out editors learn more
The supreme court of Canada appealed the approval of a land use plan for the Peel Watershed in the Yukon on December 1, 2017. Na-cho Nyak Dun was successful in overturning Yukon's land use plan as the Supreme Court of Canada found that Yukon breached the process set in the Umbrella Final Agreement and the court ruled that Yukon can only depart ...
This category is for events and people associated with the history of Yukon, Canada. By province or territory: Alberta; British Columbia; Manitoba; New Brunswick;
Chief Isaac envisioned the impact that new lifestyles would have on Hän traditional culture. In response he entrusted many songs and dances to First Nations people living in Alaska . During the years following the Klondike Gold Rush , the Hän worked to find a balance between their traditional lifestyle and the ways of the newcomers.