List of communities in Yukon

List of communities in Yukon

Contents

Cities

Towns

Villages

Hamlets

Settlements

First Nations reserves

  • Carcross 4
  • Lake Laberge 1
  • Moosehide Creek 2
  • Teslin Post 13

Indian settlements

Ghost towns and First Nations communities

Other

Small Yukon places

The following is a list and short description of places in the Yukon that may often be found on various maps, but whose population is too small to warrant their having their own article.

Dalton Post

Dalton Post or Shäwshe is a former trading post and First Nations community on the Tatshenshini River. It was on the Dalton Trail near the Haines Highway. Today, it is a prime Pacific salmon fishing spot and serves as a base for whitewater rafting expeditions on the Tatshenshini and Alsek Rivers in the Tatshenshini-Alsek Park.

Herschel

Herschel was a settlement on Herschel Island, serving as a whaling station, North West Mounted Police post and Hudson's Bay Company store. It has been long abandoned, and shoreline erosion is threatening to wipe out the remaining buildings.

Jake's Corner

Jake's Corner is a spot on the road, at historical mile 866 of the Alaska Highway, at the junction with connections to the Tagish Road and the Atlin Road. There are a small number of area residents, the junction being best known for a gas station and café. The gas station has numerous examples of old machinery.

Klukshu

Klukshu's more recent history is as a seasonal aboriginal fishing community, benefitting from a large Chinook salmon run. Located near the Haines Highway, it has no permanent population. Interpretive information is provided by the Champagne and Aishihik First Nations.

Little Salmon

Little Salmon is located on the Robert Campbell Highway between Faro and Carmacks, and stretches along the lake of the same name and the Yukon River. The only non-residential establishment is the Yukon government highway maintenance camp at Drury Creek. It was formerly an important settlement of the Little Salmon/Carmacks First Nation.

Miner's Prayer

Miner's Prayer was settled near the Blackstone River Mining Concern, providing a retreat where the miners could endulge in billiards, alcohol and other entertainment otherwise forbidden on the mining settlement. Today it is home to fewer than thirty permanent residents. It can be accessed by gravel road veering West from mile 57 on the Dempster Highway.

Silver City

Silver City, a historic mining town, is today only the residence of a small number of people, one household being a bed and breakfast establishment. It is located at historical mile 1053 of the Alaska Highway.

Stewart River

Stewart River is a former settlement at the juncture of the Yukon and Stewart rivers. A few buildings and cabins remain, as well as private museum, which are threatened by erosion. It was founded as a trading post in the 1880s before the Klondike Gold Rush to serve placer miners working along the Stewart River. The Burian family was still living there in the late 1980s.

Sulphur

Sulphur or Sulphur Creek was a mining camp south-east of Dawson on a creek of the same name that flows into the Indian River. A post office was opened there on 1903-10-28 by G. W. Coffin. It was closed in July, 1922. The place is mentioned in Jack London's story, To Build a Fire.

Former Distant Early Warning Line and current North Warning System sites[1]

  • Komakuk Beach (BAR-1)
  • Shingle Point (BAR-2)
  • Stokes Point (BAR-B)

See also

YT
Canadian Provinces and Territories
Communities in Canada's provinces and territories

References

  1. ^ The DEW LINE Sites in Canada, Alaska & Greenland
  • Robert G. Woodall, The Postal History of Yukon Territory Canada, Lawrence, MA, Quarterman, Revised edition, ©1976, ISBN0-88000-086-4

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