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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.
The Hudson's Bay Company entered the area of the Yukon around that time. [4]: 3 Through the 1800s, indigenous people, such as the Hän, along the Alaska-Yukon border trapped for furs to trade for European manufactured items. [11] The Klondike Gold Rush of 1896 was a seminal moment in post contact history of the indigenous people of the Yukon.
Leroy Napoleon "Jack" McQuesten (1836–1909) was an American pioneer explorer, trader, and prospector in Alaska and Yukon; he became known as the "Father of the Yukon."." Other nicknames included "Yukon Jack," "Captain Jack," "Golden Rule McQuesten," and "Father of Al
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 ...
The Yukon's biggest finding yet is the preserved body of a baby mammoth. An impeccably preserved baby mammoth, called Nun Cho Ga, is the crown jewel of Yukon paleontology. Government of Yukon
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.
Some of the historic buildings at Fort Selkirk, Yukon. Mountain in background is Ne Ch'e Ddhawa. Fort Selkirk (1898) Fort Selkirk is a former trading post on the Yukon River at the confluence of the Pelly River in Canada's Yukon. For many years it was home to the Selkirk First Nation (Northern Tutchone).
Although canoes of birch bark were the de facto standard for travel along North America's internal waterways, Franklin judged them unfit for navigation in the open waters of the Arctic Ocean. He therefore commissioned the construction of three boats built of ash and mahogany , the largest of which was 8 m (26 ft) in length and was capable of ...