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Dawson City Yukon Virtual Tour
- 1. Dawson City, Yukon Virtual Tour Sherry Vetter
- 2. “Living” History • Wooden sidewalks • Buildings (new and restored) maintain historical appearance • Very little pavement • Period costumes
- 3. Midnight Dome View Dawson City from the “top of the world”
- 4. Klondike River (view from Midnight Dome)
- 5. Gold Rush Dawson City is the heart of the Klondike Gold Rush August 17, 1896, Skookum Jim, Dawson Charlie and Gorge and Kate Carmack stumbled upon gold. Discovery Claim is located on Bonanza Creek.
- 7. Tour a Gold Mining Operation
- 8. Dredge #4
- 9. Diamond Tooth Gerties Diamond Tooth Gerties Gambling Hall is noted as Canada’s first licensed gambling hall complete with cancan dancers.
- 11. Diamond Tooth Gertie & the CanCan Girls
- 12. River Tours
- 13. Jack London, Robert Service, and more There is plenty to do and see in Dawson City • Visit the cabins of Jack London and Robert Service • Museums • Tours (Nature, Walking, Culture, Wilderness, Graveyards, Mining, Theatre, plus many more) • Sourtoe Cocktail Club
- 14. Links • http://dawsoncity.ca/ • http://www.pc.gc.ca/eng/lhn-nhs/yt/klondike/index.aspx • www.5thavebandb.com/ • http://www.klondikespirit.com/ • http://www.themilepost.com/home
Editor's Notes
- *personal picture
- *pictures obtained from http://dawsoncity.ca/ Visiting Dawson City is like stepping into the past The sidewalks are wooden (not cement) and there is very little pavement other than the main highway into Dawson The buildings have either been restored or, if new, built according to historical standards It is common to see people dressed in period costumes
- *personal picture Midnight Dome is just minutes from Dawson City You can walk or drive the winding road to the top Notice how you are ABOVE the trees Note: visibility may be affected by weather conditions
- *personal picture Awesome view of the Klondike River and valleys Was a bit foggy that morning
- *image obtained from http://www.pc.gc.ca/eng/lhn-nhs/yt/klondike/activ/dn4.aspx#Disco It was at this point on Bonanza Creek, marked by a National Historic Sites cairn, that gold was found in 1896, and set off the Klondike Stampede of 1898. The event captured the imagination of the western world. More than $500 million dollars worth of gold was ultimately taken from the frozen ground.
- *personal pictures A trip to Dawson would not be complete without panning for gold You can either take a tour of an actual gold mining operation or you can go out to Free Claim #6 Free Claim #6 does not have pans or teaching at the site – you are on your own AND you get to keep what you find. Panning is restricted to hand tools (pans and shovels)
- *personal pictures GoldBottom is an active gold mining operation that offers tours They give you a tour of the operation – from start to the ‘golden’ finish After the tour, you can pan for gold in the creek
- *personal pictures When operations ceased, it was common for the miners to abandon everything Dredge #4 is a National Historic Site Dredge #4 is on of the largest wooden hull, bucket-line dredge in North America (about 2/3 the size of a football field and 8 stories high)
- *picture retrieved from http://dawsoncity.ca/diamond-tooth-gerties/ Three daily cancan shows Wide variety of table games and slots Scheduled events (tournaments, etc)
- *personal pictures Three daily cancan shows Wide variety of table games and slots Scheduled events (tournaments, etc)
- *personal picture For several years, my sister-in-law sang and danced the role of “Diamond Tooth Gertie” We were fortunate to be able to get a picture of the kids with her and the CanCan girls outside of Gerties as minors are not allowed inside If my memory is correct, this is late at night about 11pm and the picture was NOT altered in photoshop – that is how ‘bright’ it is in the land of the Midnight Sun (where the sun never sets in the summer)
- *personal picture River Tours Float down a tributary of the Yukon River or take a ride on Klondike Spirit, an authentic paddlewheeler.
- *pictures retrieved from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W._Service#Yukon_period http://dawsoncity.ca/attraction/jack-london-museum/