Whitehorse Excursions
Dawson City
Klondike
The area around Dawson City, which lured thousands of young men
and a few brave women to join in the world's last great Gold Rush
in 1897, is today bursting with attractions and sights centred on
this romantic piece of Canadian history. Dawson City itself is a
colourful town with boardwalk-lined streets and plenty of restored
historic buildings, including Diamond Tooth Gertie's Dancehall and
Casino. Then there is Carmacks, originally a riverboat fuelling
station that is now a community preserving the First Nations
culture, with an interpretive centre sketching aboriginal history
over 10,000 years. Fort Selkirk is the oldest settlement in the
area and now survives as a living museum. The other venue to visit
on the Klondike trail is Pelly Crossing, where the life and times
of the Northern Tutchone people is preserved at 'Big Jonathan's
House'.
Telephone: Dawson City Visitor Reception Centre: (867) 993 5566
