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Dawson City is an eclectic and vibrant northern community on the banks of the Yukon River. We boast a mixture of First Nations Heritage and Gold Rush History blended with an active Gold Mining and Tourism Industry as well as a thriving Arts scene. In brief, we\u2019ve got everything you\u2019re looking for in a northern town!<\/p>\n

Dawson\u2019s past is marked by Beringia, an Ice Age period which formed our unique landscape and the treasures they contain, the Tr\u2019ond\u00ebk Hw\u00ebch\u2019in, who have called this area home for centuries, as well as the Klondike Gold Rush, that put this town on the tongue of stampeders worldwide.<\/p>\n

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Dawson City Today<\/h2>\n

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Dawson City is a fully integrated community that recognizes our settlement on the traditional territory of the\u00a0Tr\u2019ond\u00ebk Hw\u00ebch\u2019in.\u00a0 Visitors and residents benefit from having the\u00a0D\u00e4noj\u00e0 Zho Cultural Centre<\/a>, which offers programming showcasing Tr\u2019ond\u00ebk Hw\u00ebch\u2019in culture, including beading circles, bannock & tea time, and tours. \u00a0To learn more about Tr\u2019ond\u00ebk Hw\u00ebch\u2019in, visit\u00a0www.trondek.ca<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Klondike gold rush was the catalyst in creating Dawson as we know it today. Much of our architecture harkens back to the heyday of this period and creates a\u00a0Gold Rush\u00a0<\/em>feel for our community.<\/p>\n

Although the Gold Rush is over, placer mining; the extraction of loose minerals (including gold), is still one of the main industries in Dawson City, and has had a large influence on tourism and media, due to the popularity of shows like\u00a0Gold Rush\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Yukon Gold<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Over 200 family owned and operated placer miners still operate in the Klondike region. To find out more, head over to the\u00a0Klondike Placer Miner Association\u2019s<\/a> website.<\/p>\n

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Though small, Dawson boasts almost all services that you would find in a typical city.\u00a0 There is a hospital, K-12 school, college, library, gym, radio station, fire hall, RCMP outpost, swimming pool and rec centre, as well as a wide variety of shops, restaurants and bars.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For everything Dawson City visit our website at www.DawsonCity.ca\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

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Klondike Gold Rush<\/h2>\n

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Dawson City, Yukon is the heart of the world-famous Klondike Gold Rush. On August 16, 1896, three Yukon \u201cSourdoughs\u201d: George Carmack, Dawson Charlie, and Skookum Jim found gold on Rabbit Creek (now Bonanza Creek) a tributary of the Klondike River.<\/p>\n

Word of this find quickly spread to the about 1000 prospectors, miners, Northwest Mounted Police, missionaries and others who called the Yukon home at the time. Settlements were quickly abandoned as a rush to stake the best ground commenced.<\/p>\n

Two of these residents were Joe Ladue and Arthur Harper who had been trading in the Yukon for years. They were quick to purchase, stake and establish the town site of Dawson (named for Canadian Geologist George Mercer Dawson) at the confluence of the Yukon and Klondike Rivers, about twenty kilometers from Discovery Claim.<\/p>\n

News reached the outside world in July of 1897 when the steamships Excelsior and Portland reached San Francisco and Seattle, respectively, with the successful miners from the previous season carrying the infamous \u201cTon of Gold\u201d. News spread like wildfire of a land where \u201cnuggets could be picked off the creek floor\u201d to a recession suffering world and caused an unprecedented stampede of an estimated 100,000 people to set out to the Klondike.<\/p>\n

Most left knowing little of the journey they would undertake. They followed treacherous routes that involved uncharted landscapes, snow-choked mountain passes and freezing rivers to stake their claim to fortune in the Klondike. Most would need to travel over 5000km to get to Dawson City.<\/p>\n

In 1898 Dawson quickly grew as thirty thousand (some say fifty) pick-and-shovel miners, prospectors, storekeepers, saloon keepers, bankers, gambler, prostitutes and adventure seekers took over the town site.<\/p>\n

Most arrived to discover the good ground had been staked in the previous two years. Many simply booked passage home but others stayed and made fortunes through other endeavors. Money was not an issue in Dawson, as gold was in abundance, and businesses that catered to the gold-strapped miners thrived.<\/p>\n

From 1896-1899 Dawson $29 million in gold was pulled from the ground around Dawson City.<\/p>\n

Dawson became known as the \u201cParis of the North\u201d: The largest city west of Winnipeg and north of Seattle. Overnight millionaires roamed the streets seeking ways to spend their riches. The best food, drink and clothing were all available for purchase, at a high cost. Dance and gambling halls, bars, brothels, restaurants and supply stores all made fortunes \u201cmining the miners\u201d.<\/p>\n

Dawson continued to thrive until gold was found on the beaches of Nome, Alaska in 1899, many of the same people who came seeking fortunes in the Klondike, left Dawson in a new rush.<\/p>\n

Most gold rush participants found no gold at all. But the prospect of sudden riches was not all that mattered. For many of those who made the incredible journey, the Klondike represented escape from the humdrum, the adventure of a new frontier.<\/p>\n

The Gold Rush changed the landscape of the northwest and of North America forever. Transportation to the West and North were vastly overhauled to sustain the Rush. Towns such as Victoria, Vancouver, and Edmonton owe much of their development to the Last Great Rush. The North became accessible, attainable and, at least in the mind of the common man, conquerable.<\/p>\n

Today, this spirit can still be found in Dawson. Although the rush is over, Gold mining still thrives, and the adventure it takes to get here, although less arduous is still a reality. Come experience the rush for yourself and you\u2019ll see what all the fuss was about!<\/p>\n

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