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Beyond the Klondike — the booms and busts of mining in the Yukon

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1940

The Real Sam McGee

William Samuel McGee had no idea that, just because he had an account in the Bank of Commerce in Whitehorse, his name would make him world famous. The poet Robert Service, however, thought the name had a poetic ring…

1946

McCrae

Over the past one hundred years, McCrae has played many roles. It began in 1899 as a flagstop station on the White Pass railway. It was named for Colin McCrae, one of the company directors. The wagon road between

1949

Atlin, B.C.

When gold was discovered in the Atlin region, everyone naturally assumed that it was part of the Yukon. It wasn’t. But even today, Atlin is more closely associated with the Yukon than its real home, British Columbia.

In 1898, prospectors…