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11 unusual facts about Dawson City


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Harry Karstens

Like many young men, Karstens went North for adventure to Dawson City, Canada during the Klondike Gold Rush in 1897; he was nineteen.

Hazelton, British Columbia

Black Jack MacDonell, who owned the Ingenika Hotel in Old Hazelton had been known from San Francisco to Dawson City as the "king of saloon keepers".

Lillian Alling

Starting out again, she hiked along the Telegraph Trail, over the wild mountain passes, finally reaching Dawson where she worked as a cook, purchased and repaired an old boat, and in the spring of 1929, launched it into the waters of the Yukon River right behind the outgoing ice reaching a point east of the Seward Peninsula.

Louis Whitford Bond

With the discovery of gold in the Yukon against the advice of their father he went with his brother's impulse and he spent a year at Dawson City, in the Klondike gold region, enduring many hardships, but gaining valuable experience.

Madeleine Boschan

: Berlin Klondyke, The Odd Gallery / Klondike Institute of Art & Culture, Dawson City, Yukon, Canada

Mayo, Yukon

Together with the Tr'ondek Hwech’in First Nation an agreement has been made with Yukon Energy to supply electricity to Dawson City using the Mayo-Dawson Power Line.

Newton Marshall

Marshall was up to the task and March 27–28, 2008 he competed in the 210-mile Percy DeWolfe Memorial Mail Race from Dawson City, Yukon Territory to Eagle, Alaska and back.

Stanisław Stolarczyk

The result of this work were hundreds of newspaper articles relating to Canada, and reports, including the visit of President Lech Wałęsa in Canada, from the Arctic – obtaining the North Pole by the Poles (Marek Kamiński and Wojciech Moskal), from the mountain expeditions in the massif of Warsaw and the Rocky Mountains, of which he was the organizer and director, or from the participation in the World Championships of Gold Panning in Dawson City of the Yukon.

Thomas Riggs, Jr.

From 1897 to 1901, Riggs prospected for gold near both Dawson City and Nome, Alaska with little success.


Carmacks, Yukon

Carmacks is situated at the confluence of the Nordenskiold and Yukon rivers, approximately 180 km (112 miles) north of Whitehorse and 360 km (224 miles) south of Dawson City on the North Klondike Highway.

Little Gold Creek, Yukon

Little Gold Creek is a border crossing located on the Top of the World Highway between Dawson City, Yukon and Tok, Alaska, at the Alaska/Yukon border.

Pelly Crossing, Yukon

The Selkirk First Nation community was established as a ferry crossing and a highway construction camp when the Klondike Highway from Whitehorse to Dawson City was built in 1950.

Wilfred Leigh Brintnell

He was involved in several historic events between 1928 and 1931, including piloting the first multi-engined return flight Winnipeg, Manitoba to Vancouver, British Columbia; the first flight around Great Bear Lake; and the first over-the-mountains flight from Aklavik, Northwest Territories to Dawson City, Yukon Territory.