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Yukon Gold was a Canadian reality television series produced by Paperny Entertainment that aired on History Television.The series followed four or five placer mining crews as they searched for gold over the four-month Yukon mining season.
A University publication states that "Yukon Gold was the first Canadian-bred potato variety to be promoted, packaged and marketed with its name right on the pack". [ 2 ] In spite of the overwhelming success of this potato for some years, sales in Canada dropped 30% between 2004 and 2014 as other varieties became increasingly popular.
Throughout the gold-mining season, from the start of summer until about September, the Yukon paleontology team makes several trips across the territory's Klondike region to collect fossils from ...
This variety is a mutation (or sport) of the cultivar 'Burbank's Seedling' that was selected by the plant breeder Luther Burbank in 1873. The known lineage of Russet Burbank began in 1853 when Chauncey E. Goodrich imported the Rough Purple Chili from South America in an attempt to add diversity to American potato stocks which were susceptible to late blight.
In 1882, he crossed the Chilkoot Pass into the interior of the Yukon, where he prospected and traded for a couple of years. In August 1896, a few days after the discovery of gold in the Klondike , he staked a claim to either 160 [ 1 ] or 178 [ 2 ] acres (65-72 hectares) of boggy flats at the mouth of the Klondike River as a townsite.
Discovery Claim is a mining claim at Bonanza Creek, a watercourse in the Yukon, Canada. It is the site where, in the afternoon of August 16, 1896, the first piece of gold was found in the Yukon by prospectors. The site is considered to be the place where the Klondike gold rush started.
Dredge No. 4 (Hän: Lëzrą Kä̀nëchà "s/he is looking for money") is a wooden-hulled bucketline sluice dredge that mined placer gold on the Yukon River from 1913 until 1959. 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 ...
Dawson City: Frozen Time is a 2016 American documentary film written, edited, and directed by Bill Morrison, [2] and produced by Morrison and Madeleine Molyneaux. [3] First screened in the Orizzonti competition section at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival, [4] the film details the history of the remote Yukon town of Dawson City, from the Klondike Gold Rush to the 1978 Dawson Film ...