Yukon Territory

Territory in northwest Canada, bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Northwest Territories to the east, British Columbia to the south, and Alaska to the west.

Notes for Yukon Territory

In the 1890s, gold strikes in the Klondike River region attracted over thirty thousand prospectors. (See Klondike gold rush.)

Back in 1896, when gold was discovered on Bonanza Creek in the Yukon Territory, America was reeling.
Welcome Back to the Gold Rush | Howard Blum | April 28, 2011 | THE DAILY BEAST
This is a new, clean, wooden town, the first of any importance in Yukon Territory.
Alaska | Ella Higginson
The paternal government of the Yukon Territory exacts a tax of 2½ per cent.
In to the Yukon | William Seymour Edwards
Murray McTavish was part of the life she lived on the bitter heights of the Yukon Territory.
The Triumph of John Kars | Ridgwell Cullum
There are more than two thousand varieties of wild flowers in Alaska and the Yukon Territory.
Alaska | Ella Higginson

Alcorn found these ground squirrels locally abundant, especially in the vicinity of Whitehorse in Yukon Territory.
Mammals taken Along the Alaska Highway | Rollin H. Baker

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