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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21Y8_the-overland-trail_Yukon-Territory.html
The territorial government contracted the White Pass & Yukon Route (WP&YR) to build a winter road from Whitehorse to Dawson in 1902. The company had the winter mail contract, and used its Royal Mail Service coaches to carry passengers, baggage and…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21Y5_pelly-crossing_Pelly-Crossing-Yukon-Territory.html
The Northern Tutchone who now live at Pelly Crossing traditionally led a semi-nomadic life in the lower Pelly River area.
When Robert Campbell built Fort Selkirk, the site was already a meeting place for trading with the coastal Tlingit. The Hu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21Y4_sternwheelers-on-the-stewart-river_Yukon-Territory.html
High water on the Stewart River peaks in late May and early June. The water level then declines for the rest of the summer to the point where only sternwheelers with a very shallow draft could navigate its swift current and shifting channels.
I…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RLD_james-skookum-jim-mason_Whitehorse-Yukon-Territory.html
(crest Canada)
James "Skookum" Jim Mason
(Kesh) ca. 1860 - 1916
"Skookum" Jim, a Tagish of the Dakhtawedi
clan and the Wolf moiety, found a nugget on
Rabbit (Bonanza) Creek in August 1898 that
began the Klondike Gold Rush…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMU66_palace-grand-theatre-le-theatre-grand-palace_Dawson-Yukon-Territory.html
[English:]
"Arizona" Charlie Meadows, showman and self-made heroic figure built a lavish structure in 1899 to prospect gold directly from the miner's pokes. Hugely successful over its first winter, the theatre offered vaudeville acts, comedy, mus…