- Atlin District
The Atlin District, also known as the Atlin Country, is a historical region located in the far northwestern corner of the Canadian province of
British Columbia , centred onAtlin Lake and the gold-rush capital of the region, the town of Atlin. The term "Atlin District" was also used synonymously with the officialAtlin Mining District , established during the gold-mining heyday contemporaneous with theKlondike Gold Rush . The region also includes adjoining Teslin andTagish Lake s and theBennett Lake area in the narrow strip of BC separating theAlaska Panhandle from theYukon Territory . The Atlin District is currently part of theStikine District in theregional district system (although it is not a regional district). The communities of the Atlin lakes district, as the area is casually called, are referred to in national weather reports as "the Southern Lakes", as in "Whitehorse and the Southern Lakes", although this also includes towns on the Yukon end of the lakes.Atlin Mining District
The Atlin Mining District, also known as the Atlin District, was described as:
The Atlin District proper embraces the Atlin and Bennett Lake Mining Divisions; these take up the Eastern and Western halves of the District, respectively, and they extend from the
Dalton Trail on the West to the watershed between Surprise and Glady Lakes on the East. The North boundary is the Sixtieth Parallel of Latitude; on the south is United States territory.Reference
* [http://www.nosracines.ca/e/page.aspx?id=273998 "The Atlin Gold Fields: A short account of the district and its resources"] ,
F.W. Howay , publ. Atlin Board of Trade
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