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Overview

Dawson City as seen across the Yukon River. The low visibility was due a forest fire in August, 2005

The current population is approximately 2,022. The area draws some 60,000 visitors each year. The locals generally refer to it simply as 'Dawson', but the tourist industry generally refers to it as 'Dawson City' (partly to differentiate it from Dawson Creek, British Columbia, which is at mile 0 of the Alaska Highway). Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1280x960, 297 KB) Yufei Yuan on August 13th, 2005. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1280x960, 297 KB) Yufei Yuan on August 13th, 2005. ... The Yukon River is a major watercourse of northwestern North America. ... For the TV series, see Dawsons Creek. ... Map of Alaska Highway (in red) The Alaska Highway, also the Alaskan Highway, Alaska-Canadian Highway, and the Alcan Highway, runs from Dawson Creek, British Columbia to Fairbanks, Alaska, via Whitehorse, Yukon. ...

History

The townsite was named in January 1897 after noted Canadian geologist George M. Dawson, who had explored and mapped the region in 1887. It served as the Yukon's capital from the territory's founding in 1898 until 1952, when the seat was moved to Whitehorse. (Courtesy of the National Archives of Canada PA-26889) George Mercer Dawson (August 1, 1849 – March 2, 1901) was a Canadian scientist and surveyor. ... Cartography or mapmaking (in Greek chartis = map and graphein = write) is the study and practice of making maps or globes. ... Whitehorse (IPA: /ʍaɪt. ...

Dawson has a much longer history, however, as an important harvest area used for millennia by the Hän-speaking people of the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in and their forebears. The heart of their homeland was a fishing camp at the confluence of the Klondike River and Yukon River, at the area now known as Tr'ochëk National Historic Site. This site was also an important summer gathering spot and a base for moose-hunting on the Klondike Valley. Chief Isaac of the Han people The Hän language is a Native American endangered language spoken in only two places: Eagle, Alaska and Dawson City, Yukon. ... The Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in First Nation (formerly the Dawson Indian Band) is a First Nation in the central Yukon Territory in Canada. ... Klondike River crossing Dempster Highway (upstream) The Klondike River is a tributary of the Yukon River in Canada and gave its name to the Klondike Gold Rush. ... The Yukon River is a major watercourse of northwestern North America. ...

The Klondike Gold Rush started in 1896 and changed the First Nation camp into a thriving city of 40,000 by 1898. By 1899, the gold rush had ended and the town's population plummeted as all but 8,000 people left. When Dawson was incorporated as a city in 1902, the population was under 5,000. A typical gold mining operation, on Bonanza Creek. ...

The population was fairly stable until the 1930s, dropped after World War II when the territorial capital was moved to Whitehorse and languished around the 600-900 mark through the 1960s and 1970s, but has risen and held stable since then. The high price of gold has made modern mining operations profitable, and the growth of the tourism industry has encouraged development of facilities. In the early 1950s, Dawson was linked by road to Alaska, and in fall 1955, with Whitehorse along a road that now forms part of the Klondike Highway. Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Whitehorse (IPA: /ʍaɪt. ... The Klondike Highway is a highway that leads from Skagway, Alaska in the United States to Dawson City, Yukon in Canada. ...

Many of the major buildings in town are part of Dawson National Historic Site. There are a number of displays in some of the old buildings, and national park service employees dress up like characters from the Klondike Gold Rush. Also in the Dawson area is Dredge No. 4 National Historic Site and S.S. Keno National Historic Site. Located in the Downtown Hotel is the famous Sourtoe Cocktail; a pickled human toe plunged into the drink of your choice. Canada has a program for designation and preservation of National Historic Sites. ...

Geology

Dawson City lies at the western end of the meeting of two continental plates. The line between these plates, called the Tintina Trench, continues eastward for several hundred kilometres. The tectonic plates of the world were mapped in the second half of the 20th century. ...

Climate

Like most of the Yukon, Dawson City has a subarctic climate. The average temperature in July is 15.6 °C. The average temperature in January is −26.7 °C. The highest temperature ever recorded is 34.7 °C on May 31, 1983 and the lowest temperature ever recorded is −55.8 °C on February 11, 1979. It experiences a wide range of temperatures surpassing 30 °C in most summers and dropping below -40 °C in winter. Regions having a subarctic climate (also called boreal climate) are characterized by long, usually very cold winters, and brief, warm summers. ... is the 151st day of the year (152nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar). ... is the 42nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Also: 1979 by Smashing Pumpkins. ...

The community is at an elevation of 370 m (1,214 ft) and the average rainfall in July is 48.4 mm and the average snowfall in January is 24.2 cm. Dawson has an average total annual snowfall of 164.5 cm and averages 90 frost free days per year. The town is built on a layer of ice, which may pose a threat to the town's infrastructure in the future as the permafrost melts. [1][2] In geology, permafrost or permafrost soil is soil at or below the freezing point of water (0°C or 32°F) for two or more years. ...

City or town

Most of Dawson's buildings look old-fashioned; all new construction must follow this policy.

Dawson was incorporated as a city in 1902 when it met the criteria for "city" status under the municipal act of that time. It retained the incorporation even as the population plummeted. When a new municipal act was adopted in the 1980s, Dawson met the criteria of "town", and was incorporated as such, although with a special provision to allow it to continue to use the word "City", partially for historic reasons, partially to distinguish it from Dawson Creek, a small city in northeastern British Columbia. Dawson Creek is also named in honour of George M. Dawson. This led the territorial government to post the following signs at the boundaries of the town: "Welcome to the Town of the City of Dawson". Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 584 pixelsFull resolution (1783 × 1302 pixel, file size: 555 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) A photo of historic buildings in downtown Dawson City, Yukon, taken on June 11, 2007 by Michael Edwards. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 584 pixelsFull resolution (1783 × 1302 pixel, file size: 555 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) A photo of historic buildings in downtown Dawson City, Yukon, taken on June 11, 2007 by Michael Edwards. ... For the TV series, see Dawsons Creek. ... Motto: Splendor Sine Occasu (Latin: Splendour Without Sunset (diminishment)) Capital Victoria Largest city Vancouver Official languages English Government - Lieutenant-Governor Iona Campagnolo - Premier Gordon Campbell (BC Liberal) Federal representation in Canadian Parliament - House seats 36 - Senate seats 6 Confederation July 20, 1871 (6th province) Area  Ranked 5th - Total 944,735... (Courtesy of the National Archives of Canada PA-26889) George Mercer Dawson (August 1, 1849 – March 2, 1901) was a Canadian scientist and surveyor. ...

Law and Government

In 2004, the Yukon government removed the mayor and the town council, as a result of the town going bankrupt. The territorial government accepted a large portion of the responsibility for this situation in March 2006, writing off $3.43 million of the debt and leaving the town with $1.5 million still to pay off. Elections were set for June 15, 2006. John Steins, a local artist and one of the leaders of the movement to restore democracy to Dawson, was acclaimed as mayor, while 13 residents ran for the 4 council seats.

The government of Tr'ondek Hwech'in, now a self-governing First Nation, is also located in Dawson.

Industry

Today, Dawson City's main industries are tourism and gold mining. A tour guide at Canadas Centre Block. ... GOLD refers to one of the following: GOLD (IEEE) is an IEEE program designed to garner more student members at the university level (Graduates of the Last Decade). ... Miners operate a hydraulic sluice in San Francisquito Canyon, Los Angeles County. ...

Gold mining started in 1896 with the Bonanza Creek discovery by George Carmack, Dawson Charlie and Skookum Jim Mason. The area's creeks were quickly staked and most of the thousands who arrived in the spring of 1898 for the Klondike Gold Rush found that there was very little opportunity to benefit directly from gold mining. Many instead became entrepreneurs to provide services to miners. Bonanza may refer to: in mining, a rich deposit or vein of ore; and thus a run of good luck a television series: Bonanza an aircraft, the Beechcraft Bonanza various localities, such as: Bonanza in Spain Bonanza, Arkansas, USA Bonanza, Colorado, USA Bonanza, Georgia, USA Bonanza, Oregon, USA Bonanza Creek... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... Dawson Charlie or Káa goox, (? – 26 December 1908) was a Tagish/Tlingit First Nation person and one of the co-discoverers of gold that led to the Klondike Gold Rush. ... Keish (Skookum Jim Mason) Keish (c. ... A typical gold mining operation, on Bonanza Creek. ...

Starting approximately 10 years later, large gold dredges began an industrial mining operation, scooping huge amounts of gold out of the creeks, and completely reworking the landscape, altering the locations of rivers and creeks and leaving tailing piles in their wake. A network of canals and dams were built to the north to produce hydroelectric power for the dredges. The dredges shut down for the winter, but one built for "Klondike Joe Boyle" was designed to operate year-round, and Boyle had it operate all through one winter. That dredge (Dredge No. 4) is open as a national historic site on Bonanza Creek. // For other uses, see Dredge (disambiguation). ... Tailings (also known as slickens[1]) are the waste left over[2] after removing the gangue from ore. ... Hydroelectric dam diagram The waters of Llyn Stwlan, the upper reservoir of the Ffestiniog Pumped-Storage Scheme in north Wales, can just be glimpsed on the right. ... Joseph Whiteside Boyle (born 16 November 1867 in Toronto, Ontario, died 14 April 1923 in Hampton Hill, England), better known as Klondike Joe Boyle, was a British businessman and entrepreneur. ... National Historic Site is a designation for a protected area of historic significance. ...

The last dredge shut down in 1966, and the hydroelectric facility, at North Fork, was closed when the City of Dawson declined an offer to purchase it. Since then, placer miners have returned to the status of being the primary mining operators in the region.

The town is served by the Dawson City Airport. Dawson City Airport is located 15 km east of Dawson City, Yukon, Canada, in the Klondike River valley, and is operated by the Yukon government. ...

Community Profile

According to the Canada 2006 Census: The Canada 2006 Census was a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population. ...

• Population in 2006: 1,327
• Population in 2001: 1,251
• Change 2001 to 2006 population change (%): 6.1
• Total private dwellings: 768
• Population density per square kilometre: 40.9
• Land area (square km): 32.45

For complete profile, see

2006 Statistics Canada Community Highlights for Dawson

2001 Statistics Canada Community Highlights for Dawson

Transportation and Communications

Ferry for Highway 9.

• Airport: Dawson City Airport, gravel runway
• Road: Klondike Highway (Yukon route 2) from Whitehorse; Top of the World Highway (Yukon route 9) and Taylor Highway (Alaska route 5) from Tok, Alaska
• Rail: none
• Boat: none except for the Highway 9 ferry at the north end of town, although the Yukon River is navigable (when not frozen solid) and historically was travelled by commercial riverboats to Whitehorse and downstream into Alaska and the Bering Sea. Holland America Line also operates a catamaran, The Yukon Queen II, daily (roundtrip) between Dawson City and the town of Eagle, Alaska. This is mainly a service for its package tour customers, though anyone may purchase a ticket for the trip.
• Television: local transmitters for Aboriginal Peoples Television Network and CBC Television English
• Radio: CFYT-FM (local community station, rebroadcasts CKRW Whitehorse when not originating local broadcasts); local transmitters for CBC Radio One (CFWH regional network), CHON-FM
• Newspaper: no daily newspapers locally, Klondike Sun published every two weeks, Yukon News is available three days per week
• Cable television: municipal government-owned system with several channels via satellite
• Telephone/Internet: Northwestel telephone exchange, with ADSL internet; also dial-up internet from Yknet; cellular service to be introduced during late 2006 or spring 2007
• Electricity: Yukon Energy Corporation (hydro from the Mayo, Yukon dam, diesel back-up)

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Famous residents

Dawson City is also home of the Berton House Writers Retreat program, housing established Canadian writers for four three-month get-away-from-it-all subsidized residencies each year. Berton House was the childhood home of popular-history writer Pierre Berton, and is across the street from the cabin that was home to poet Robert Service, and just up the street from the cabin that housed writer Jack London during his time in the town. Pierre Francis Berton, CC, O.Ont, BA, D.Litt (July 12, 1920 – November 30, 2004) was a noted Canadian author of non-fiction, especially Canadiana and Canadian history, and was a well-known television personality and journalist. ... You may be looking for: Robert W. Service a poet. ... For other persons named Jack London, see Jack London (disambiguation). ...

Pierre Berton narrated the 1957 film City of Gold which describes the excitement of Dawson City during the gold rush. City of Gold is a 1957 Canadian documentary by Colin Low and Wolf Koenig, chronicling Dawson City during the Klondike Gold Rush. ...

The city was home to the famous Dawson City Nuggets hockey team, who in 1905 challenged the Ottawa Silver Seven for the Stanley Cup. Traveling to Ottawa by dogsled, skip, and train, the team lost the most lopsided series in Stanley Cup history, losing two games by the combined score of 32 to 4. The Dawson City Nuggets were a hockey team from Dawson City, Yukon Territory, Canada that challenged the reigning champion Ottawa Silver Seven in January, 1905, for the Stanley Cup, and suffered the most lopsided single-game defeat in the history of Stanley Cup play. ... The Stanley Cup The Stanley Cup (French: ) is the championship trophy of the National Hockey League (NHL), the major professional ice hockey league in Canada and the United States. ...

External links

• Yukon Wide Listings
• Dawson City Music Festival 2006 photos
• Dawson City Citizens' Forum
• Klondike Visitors Association
• Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in First Nation
• Yukon Communities. Dawson Community Profile
• University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections – Eric A. Hegg Photographs 736 photographs from 1897-1901 documenting the Klondike and Alaska gold rushes, including depictions of frontier life in Skagway and Nome, Alaska and Dawson, Yukon Territory.

Tourism Related Links

• Dawson Web site Source of info about Dawson today
• JOHN STEINS, Mayor & Local Artist/Printmaker
• Cultural & Arts Centre
• Dawson City International Short Film Festival
• Dawson City Music Festival
• Dawson National Historic Site
• Dawson/Yukon Photography
• Northern Art - Halin De Repentigny - Dawson City
• Trek Over The Top Snowmobile Event

v • d • e Subdivisions of Yukon
Regions	Klondike
Communities	Beaver Creek · Burwash Landing · Carcross · Carmacks · Champagne · Destruction Bay · Dawson City · Faro · Haines Junction · Ibex Valley · Keno City · Marsh Lake · Mayo · Mount Lorne · Old Crow · Pelly Crossing · Ross River · Tagish · Teslin · Upper Liard · Watson Lake · Whitehorse
Ghost towns	Clinton Creek · Elsa · Fortymile · Paris · Snag
Parks	Ivvavik · Kluane · Vuntut

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