Yukon Territory

1. 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

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

Example Sentences

Back in 1896, when gold was discovered on Bonanza Creek in the Yukon Territory, America was reeling.

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This is a new, clean, wooden town, the first of any importance in Yukon Territory.

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The paternal government of the Yukon Territory exacts a tax of 2½ per cent.

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Murray McTavish was part of the life she lived on the bitter heights of the Yukon territory.

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There are more than two thousand varieties of wild flowers in Alaska and the Yukon Territory.

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Alcorn found these ground squirrels locally abundant, especially in the vicinity of Whitehorse in Yukon Territory.

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