- Carmacks, Yukon
Carmacks is a
village in theYukon on theYukon River along theKlondike Highway , and at the west end of theRobert Campbell Highway from Watson Lake. Population 426 (Yukon Bureau of Statistics, June 2007). Home of theLittle Salmon/Carmacks First Nation , aNorthern Tutchone language people. Carmacks is the site of one of the fourbridge s over theYukon River .It was named after
George Carmack , one of the discoverers of gold in the Klondike, who had tried miningcoal in the area in the early 1890s. The area around Carmacks has large mineral resources, includingcoal ,copper , andgold . Various mining activities are taking place on mineral sites around Carmacks. There is a small Zinc-Copper mine in production near Carmacks operated by Western Silver and a gold property north west of Carmacks currently in the exploration stage operated by Northern Freegold Resources based out of Whitehorse.Demographics
Carmacks is the only community in the Yukon which has the status of
designated place in Canadian censuses.Canada_CP_2006|pop=425|popDelta=-1.4%
landArea=36.9|popDensity=11.6|medianAge=|medianAgeM=|medianAgeF=
privateDwell=173|medianHHIncome=37,632External links
* [http://www.yukonalaska.com/communities/carmackshist.html History of Carmacks]
* [http://www.yukoncommunities.yk.ca/communities/carmacks/ Community Profile]
* [http://www.lscfn.ca Little Salmon Carmacks First Nation]
* [http://www.carmacks.ca Village of Carmacks Web Page]
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